Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century: How to Build an Academic Career in the Humanities

Many graduate students continue to be regarded as "apprentices" despite the fact that they are expected to design and teach their own classes, serve on university committees, and conference and publish regularly. The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the attrition rate for American Ph.D. programs is at an all-time high, between 40% and 50% (higher for women and minorities). Of those who finish, only one in three will secure tenure-track jobs. These statistics highlight waste: of millions of dollars by universities and of time and energy by students. Rather than teaching graduate students how to be graduate students, then, the guide prepares them for what they really seek: a successful academic career.

Author: G. Semenza
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/17/2010
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780230100336
ISBN10: 0230100333
BISAC Categories:
- Study Aids | Study & Test-Taking Skills
- Education | Schools | Levels | Higher

About the Author
Gregory Colón Semenza is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, USA. He is the author of Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance and, with Laura L. Knoppers, Milton in Popular Culture. He has also published numerous essays on such popular culture topics as Tim Blake Nelson's 'O, ' children's versions of Milton's Comus, and Shakespeare: The Animated Tales .