Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-17

3. The Culture of a Graduate Program

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   Pages 18-38

4. The Structure of Your Graduate Career: An Ideal Plan

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   Pages 39-53

5. Organization and Time Management

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   Pages 54-75

6. The Graduate Seminar

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   Pages 76-89

7. The Seminar Paper

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   Pages 90-115

8. Teaching

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   Pages 116-148

9. Exams

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   Pages 149-166

10. The Dissertation

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11. Attending Conferences

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    Pages 195-213

12. Publishing

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    Pages 214-237

13. Service and Participation

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    Pages 238-254

14. The Job Market

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15. Afterword

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    Pages 282-287

16. Back Matter

    Pages 288-340

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In a straightforward manner, Semenza identifies the obstacles along the path of the academic career and offers tangible advice. Fully revised and updated, this edition's new material on advising, electronic publishing, and the post-financial crisis humanities job market will help students negotiate the changing landscape of academia.

• Portfolio
• Seminar
• teaching
• structural geology

'Gregory Semenza's Graduate Study for the Twenty-first Century is a tough-minded, witty, generous discussion of how to enter the profession of scholarship and teaching. The appendices alone are worth the price of the book; Semenza provides samples of everything from course syllabi and job letters to materials on the teaching portfolio, book prospectus, conference participation everything a serious graduate student needs to succeed. The book should be required reading for graduate students and their professors.' - Barry V. Qualls, Dean of Humanities, Rutgers University, USA

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 .

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