November 1, 2002

The Best and Worst Advice in Grad School

Shelley Fisher Fishkin,chair of the department of American studies and professor of American studies and English at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of

Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and American Culture (Oxford University Press, 1996):

The idea of being both a new graduate student and a new member of the faculty the fall after I graduated from college sounded too good to be true, but there it was: the letter telling me I had won a

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