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Special Post: So you’re going on the academic job market
Posted on September 12, 2015 Leave a Comment
This post is just for those of you in grad school or who are going on the academic job market this year. (If you are a fellow academic or a grad student, please share this widely. This advice is important.) (For the rest of you, academia has a “job season” and it’s right now through […]
Making the argument
Posted on September 5, 2014 Leave a Comment
In the Spring 2011 issue of the bible of creative nonfiction, the journal Creative Nonfiction, Phillip Lopate explores whether the essay is “exploration or argument,” ultimately deciding that the best creative nonfiction essays do, in fact, make an argument, even if implicitly. And he says that teachers of creative nonfiction are at a disadvantage in […]
