Ms. Mentors New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia
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Ms. Mentors New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in AcademiaEmily TothThe book is bursting with questions that bring on a knowing nod, and the sly Ms Mentor has a lot of cheeky answers, delivered with perfect look-down-her-nose-and-smirk sarcasm.--Times Higher Education SupplementThe divine Ms. M. is back, with realistic and witty advice about life in academia. Required reading.--Elaine Showalter, Princeton UniversityAt last, Ms. Mentor Unplugged, Uncensored, and Unrepentant! This is a great and clear-headed read for junior academics trying to find their way to success through the thicket of professional obfuscation and a good reminder to senior people about just how confusing academe is to the uninitiated.--Cathy Davidson, Duke UniversityPart Emily Post, part Dame Edna, Ms. Mentor continues to dispense wicked truths in her trademark style. Tucking her professional advice into very funny and frequently appalling stories (I believe every one), she sends encouraging word from the only ivory tower left standing.--William Germano, The Cooper UnionMs. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentors mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared in her celebrated monthly online and print Q&A columns for the Chronicle of Higher Education; her readers colorful and rebellious ripostes have gone unpublished--until now.Hearing the call for a follow-up to the wildly successful Ms. Mentors Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia, Ms. Mentor now broadens her counsel to include academics of the male variety. Ms. Mentor knows all about foraging for jobs, about graduate school stars and serfs, and about mentors and underminers, backbiters and whiners. She answers burning questions: Am I too old, too working class, too perfect, too blonde? When sh
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