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From:Resources for Feminist ResearchPeer-Reviewed[The following article is adapted from introductory remarks made on the occasion of the launch of York Stories: Women in Higher Education at York University, on September 29, 2000,] I have come to believe over and...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAt the annual conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in March 2004, discussion at a workshop on "The Book" quickly jumped to a topic it never left: the crisis in publishing. The workshop was cosponsored...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1991 the televised coverage of African American lawyer Anita Hill testifying that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her riveted the nation and mobilized activism around sexual harassment. A...
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From:Christianity and Literature (Vol. 61, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Conference on Christianity and Literature offers grants to help cover travel expenses for selected scholars and writers and graduate students participating in CCL conferences or events. All applicants must be...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe graduate students who reviewed the Society of Early Americanists' third biannual meeting in Providence in 2003 Concluded their remarks by noting that the society was working to become more and more graduate-student...
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From:Scandinavian Studies (Vol. 73, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe ninety-first annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS 2001) was hosted by North Park University's Center for Scandinavian Studies under the directorship of Charles Peterson. The...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 109, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedStaring at a blank page has been the bane of students, teachers, and writers for millennia. In recent years, the accusing blankness that stares back at us is more likely to be that of a computer monitor. But this still...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedW. E. B. Du Bois described double consciousness as a sense "of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others." (1) There may be no truer example of Du Bois's theory than ? the relationship between African...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 49, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMy first encounter with learning logs was 14 years ago. It was my first semester of graduate school, and my reading professor required us to do a learning log on the book Content Area Reading by Vacca and Vacca (1989)....
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 55, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe term "assistant professor" implies that one becomes a true professor only after demonstrating the ability to put the earned wisdom of a graduate education into action, through scholarly publications met with the...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe University of Washington established a graduate program under its Dept of Women Studies in Dec 1997. It aims to encourage scholarly work on gendered involvement in social history from the perspective of varied...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 45, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn January 2006 Jonathan Buchsbaum and Penny Lewis interviewed four New York University graduate students--Michael Palm, Asad Raza, Tricia Lawler, and Elena Gorfinkel. All are members of the first ever union for...
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From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5973)It was 10 pm when word came from the Zarari family's neighbours: Isis was launching a book raid on their street. The family convened in their living room, grouping around the dark wooden shelves that contained dozens of...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAn African American woman went back to finish her undergraduate degree when her first child went to college. In 1992, her mentor convinced her to pursue a doctorate's degree in women's studies at Clark University. The...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 43, Issue 3)Melanie Bayley, a doctoral candidate in Victorian literature, has recently authored two articles (References 1 and 2) claiming that Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" was Charles Dodgson's...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe paradigmatic academic career seems so straightforward: get the degree, get a job, get promoted through the ranks. Actual careers seldom follow the model; in particular, the move from graduate school to a permanent...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN A RECENT SURVEY of the "alt-ac" community, 74 percent of respondents stated that when they initially started their graduate work, they planned to become a professor and "of that 74%, 80% report[ed] feeling fairly...
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From:Resources for Feminist ResearchPeer-ReviewedTwelve years ago, in 1990, I published a short story called "The Summer Job." In it, the narrator, a contract faculty member hired at the last moment to teach a summer course, sends out job applications and papers to...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhen I decided to go back to graduate school, my family thought I was insane. Leave my publishing career in New York? Amass tens of thousands of dollars in student debt? End up living God knows where? They tried, rather...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Joseph Conrad Society of America presents an annual Bruce Harkness Young Conrad Scholar Award, named in honor of Bruce Harkness, Conrad scholar and former president of the society. The award is given annually to an...