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Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

“Write Like a Motherfucker”

By Karen Kelsky | August 2, 2013

I've been post-academic now for just about exactly three years. Three years since I left my tenured position at University of Illinois to move back to Eugene, Oregon with no job and no idea what I'd do next. This summer I finally started to … [Read more...] about “Write Like a Motherfucker”

Filed Under: Alt-University Critique, Graduate Student Concerns, Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | June 10, 2013

A reader wrote asking for a post on how to write a book while working at a teaching-intensive university.  I put out a request for a guest post on the subject on Facebook, and Steve Engler responded with this account of writing a book while teaching … [Read more...] about Eight Tips on Writing Efficiently while Overloaded with Teaching, Service and Kids (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: How To Build Your Tenure File, Publishing Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

The Price You Will Pay for Work-Life Balance

By Karen Kelsky | June 7, 2013

One of the most common questions I'm asked now, and in the years when I was active as an academic, is how women in academia can manage to combine children and career.  I did it, having two babies as an assistant professor and still getting tenure and … [Read more...] about The Price You Will Pay for Work-Life Balance

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Quitting--An Excellent Option, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Tenure--How To Get It, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

By Karen Kelsky | May 10, 2013

For the next few months I will be posting the "best of the best" Professor is in blog posts on the job market, for the benefit of all those girding their loins for the 2013-2014 … [Read more...] about The Six Ways You’re Acting Like a Grad Student (And how that’s killing you on the job market)

Filed Under: How To Do Conferences, How to Interview, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: academic job market help, assertiveness training exercise, body language of women, getting a tenure track job, How to deal with professors, How to shake hands, women professional success, women succeeding in graduate school

How To Identify Yourself as a Diversity Hire

By Karen Kelsky | May 3, 2013

One of the most important things a job document can do is communicate an applicant's status with regard to diversity hiring. If you qualify as a diversity hire, you must make sure the committee knows it. But how does one do that? In my work with … [Read more...] about How To Identify Yourself as a Diversity Hire

Filed Under: How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

Postpartum Depression: On Motherhood, Academia, and Mental Health (A Guest Post)

By Karen Kelsky | April 8, 2013

In January, I posted a request on Facebook and Twitter for resources related to mental illness and academia.  I had been contacted by a reader recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, who was seeking information.  The response to my request was … [Read more...] about Postpartum Depression: On Motherhood, Academia, and Mental Health (A Guest Post)

Filed Under: Mental Health and Academia, Work/Life Balance in Academia, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia

How and Why to Write Collaboratively: A Guest Post

By Karen Kelsky | December 4, 2012

For the next bit of time I will be posting special guest posts early in the week, in addition to my regular Friday post.  These guest posts are kindly submitted by readers in response to requests that arise on the blog or Facebook page.  I appreciate … [Read more...] about How and Why to Write Collaboratively: A Guest Post

Filed Under: Graduate Student Concerns, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Surviving Assistant Professorhood, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia, Your Second and Third Jobs

I <3 Self Promotion and So Should You

By Karen Kelsky | July 26, 2012

Dr. Karen is on vacation July 2012.  During that time she is re-posting older blog posts  her regular Tuesday and Thursday posting days.  She'll recommence new posting some time in … [Read more...] about I <3 Self Promotion and So Should You

Filed Under: Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Promote Yourself!, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: how to promote your academic work, self promotion in academia, strategies of self promotion in the academy, the value of self promotion, women and self promotion

How Women Can Speak Better in Public: Stop Apologizing and Get a Career

By Karen Kelsky | July 10, 2012

Dr. Karen is on vacation in Italy July 2012.  During that time she is re-posting older blog posts on her regular Tuesday and Thursday posting days.  She'll recommence new postings some time in … [Read more...] about How Women Can Speak Better in Public: Stop Apologizing and Get a Career

Filed Under: How to Interview, Intersectional Analyses, Landing Your Tenure Track Job, Major Job Market Mistakes, Promote Yourself!, Stop.Acting.Like.A.Grad.Student, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: assertiveness training exercise, effective public speaking for women, fear of speaking in public, female self assertiveness, how to speak in public for women, overcoming fear of speaking, successful presenting for women

Is Your Writing Better Than Waffles?

By Karen Kelsky | July 5, 2012

Last week, I was working on a client's materials. We were on something like draft #4 of her dissertation abstract, following on weeks of work on her c.v. and job letter. She'd been working hard, and her materials showed it. It was Sunday morning, … [Read more...] about Is Your Writing Better Than Waffles?

Filed Under: How to Get Grants and Fellowships, How To Write Academic Job Cover Letters, Major Job Market Mistakes, Postdoc Issues, Strategizing Your Success in Academia, Tenure--How To Get It, Writing, Yes, You Can: Women in Academia Tagged With: best writing tips, grant writing strategies, key to good writing

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