ENGL 601: Maryland PhDs & Careers
ENGL 601: Maryland PhDs & Careers
Department graduate students are warmly welcomed to ENGL 601’s roundtable, “Maryland PhDs & Careers,” where we will be joined by recent alumni.
- Martin Camper, Associate Professor English, Loyola University; UMd PhD 2014
- Amanda Dykema, Research and Grant Writing Coordinator, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland; UMd PhD 2014
- Kara Fontenot, Lecturer, Junior-Year Writing Program, College of Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; UMd PhD 2018
Email Tita Chico for Zoom link & readings (tchico@umd.edu)
Suggested readings
Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius, “How Do I Figure Out What Else to Do? Soul-Searching Before Job Searching” and “This Might Hurt a Bit: Turning a CV into a Resume,” "So What Are You Going to Do with That?”: Finding Careers Outside Academia, 3d ed. (2001; Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 43-73, 97-123.
Katina Rogers, preface and introduction, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020), vii-xiv, 1-18.
Pathways for Humanities PhDs (Stanford University)
Hannah Abrams, “Alt-Ac’s Shining Moment”
Elizabeth Segran, “What Can You Do With a Humanities Ph.D., Anyway?” The Atlantic Monthly (March 31, 2014).