Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs

This candid book dispenses essential advice for academic job hunters and gives them the skills and knowledge to land a job in the humanities. Fully revised and updated, this book offers a comprehensive look at the do's and don'ts of the application and interview process. Accounting for changes in both the economic climate and technology, Kathryn Hume provides indispensable tips and a variety of practical tools-sample interview questions, online resources, information on jobs abroad, and more. Here, advanced PhD students and job-seekers will find the tools to transform their mindset from student to faculty.

Author: K. Hume
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/19/2011
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780230109469

About the Author
KATHRYN HUME Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Fantasy and Mimesis: Responses to Reality in Western Literature, Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, and American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960.