Job Coaches Help Get Professors Back on Track

By AUDREY WILLIAMS JUNE

Academics seek advice when writer's block threatens their careers

Anastasia C. Curwood, in her first year on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, couldn't seem to carve out time to work on her book about African-American marriages. Carla Freeman, an Emory University professor at work on her second book, had tried unsuccessfully to write every day. Elizabeth S. Chilton, a new department chair at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, often found herself writing anything but the