October 15, 2004
Why Can't Young Scholars Write Their Second Books First?
It is often observed, and not without justice, that the academic job market conditions graduate students in the humanities to write books aimed at a limited range of readers: specialists in the student's chosen field. Despite the indubitable rise of interdisciplinary and crossdisciplinary studies, the aspiring assistant professor is taught to write the kind of book that will contribute to a recognizable "field." Otherwise he or she may seem unclassifiable and therefore unsuited for a
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