October 17, 2003

Becoming a Librarian

By TODD GILMAN

After years of fruitless hunting for a faculty job, an English Ph.D. finds his niche

When I defended my dissertation at the University of Toronto in 1993, I was worried about my prospects for employment on the tenure track in English. Five years earlier, my adviser had been encouraging when I had proposed writing an interdisciplinary study of Restoration and 18th-century music drama.

I wrote a respectable dissertation on the interrelations of music and theater -- on John

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