When the shared joys and pains of academic writing unite us with the undergrads we teach. More...

Tips for crafting professional and effective emails. More...

It’s a stressful time of year for many graduate students. There are midterms to write and midterms to grade. Project deadlines for the end of the semester are looming nearer even as emails reminding you to submit your syllabus and book list for next term start popping up in your inbox. More...

Recently I overheard a couple of faculty members discussing some of the challenges they were facing with their new cohort of doctoral students. The professors had provided them with an abundance of feedback on the first writing assignment and the group had made A’s and B’s overall. More...

I started “adulting” at age 21. I had taken a fairly standard route: graduate high school, attend a 4-year university, earn a bachelor’s degree, get a teaching position. I settled into a life with my own apartment, a full-time job, and a monthly paycheck. More...

Archival research can be intense. There is plenty of writing out there, both angsty and artful, that expresses this as a commonly held truth among researchers. More...

Presenting to a group, taken broadly, is a big part of what we do as graduate students. By presenting to a group, I don't just mean conference presentations and dissertation/proposal presentations. More...

My grandmother picked cotton from the time that she could walk until she was old enough to find work on a Chrysler assembly line, where she stayed until the jobs left and the plant closed. More...