I know that it exists in other contexts and professions, but imposter syndrome looms very large inside academia. Briefly, imposter syndrome is the idea that despite being well qualified for something, at any moment people will find out that you are, in fact, terrible. There has been a lot written on imposter syndrome in academia, … Continue reading The Five-Inch Course

Not long after I began graduate school in the early 2000s, I began to see the ways that many people—friends, family, even my own colleagues—have a fundamental misunderstanding about what it means to be an academic. From my perspective, these misunderstandings come in two flavors. The first is that professors really only work for the … Continue reading Par for the Course