During my final year of doctoral work, a mentor and I landed on the topic of the pressure to produce scholarship very early in one’s career. As a literary scholar, I was feeling the pressure to hit the market with not only a completed dissertation but with at least a handful of articles in print and, ideally, the initial stages of a book contract. The mentor, a traditionalist with little taste for chronological snobbery, pish-poshed my concerns and said, “If I had my way, we wouldn’t allow humanities scholars to publish anything until they are at least 40. Everything they produce prior to that reflects shallow reading, callow ambition, or the need to fill the pages of useless and redundant journals.” This was, of course, contrary to the advice I had been given in most quarters.
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