Road to Tenure

This book contains humorous recollections of the messiness and confusion that fill the days of a pre-tenure academic - from graduate school through the post-doc, and into the assistant professor days. The stories recount the experiences of pre-tenure academics in the thick of things and trying - perhaps unsuccessfully - to make sense of it all.

Introduction
By Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker Renga

Section 1: Startup Costs

Warning: Scholarship Can Be Hazardous for Your Health
By Ian Parker Renga

Lucy and the Football: My Search for a Job in a Charlie Brown World
By Steve Newton

Chocolate Frosting & The Art of Interviewing
By Heather M. Bandeen

Changing Clothes in the Phone Booth
By Jessalynn Strauss

Section 2: Occupational Dissonance

Whose class is it anyway?
By Julie C. Mitchell

When Homer Simpson Writes Homer's Iliad: Preventing Plagiarism while Keeping Your Promotion
By Troy Appling

How Not to Teach a Class
By Andrew Shtulman

Publish, Perish, or Apply for Social Security: Reflections on the Tenure Process
By Logan Greene

The Life of the Mind. . . In the Company of Others
By Amanda Jansen

Section 3: Professors Are People, Too

The Village Idiot
By Erin Marie Furtak

Hot Mess Times Three
By Hindi Krinsky

Who's Pro-creating Now? : Two Sides of Parenting in the Academe
By Lara Narcisi and Scott Dimovitz

How I Got Dismissed from Jury Duty: A Reflection on Philosophy and Public Life
By Rick Anthony Furtak

Acknowledgements