Career Advice

Wayne Journell shares his firsthand knowledge and insights into the thought processes that editors go through when deciding whether to accept or reject a manuscript.

Life coaching and a Louise Penny novel changed the way I read even critical ones, writes Diane LeBlanc.

We should help students in our literature classes to transcend the too-common notion that “the film was funny but the book was not,” writes Douglas King.

The growing numbers of women in the position confront a job with mushrooming demands and stresses yet relatively little institutional support, writes Nazli Kibria.

A career is only part of life, writes Victoria McGovern. When you look back someday, what else would you want to see that you have done?

Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt offers advice about how underrepresented faculty members can best navigate campus visits at predominantly white institutions.

Marcelle Dougan offers five tips that she has learned along the way to help you flourish in the beginning of your academic career and beyond.

To determine what materials to allow students to bring to exams, Nancy S. Schorschinsky conducted her own experiments and discovered some insightful results.