Ms. Mentor Unmasked

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Krebs, Paula | Copyright information

Here's how I accidentally became an academic advice columnist, gentle readers.

Emily Toth, who writes the monthly "Ms. Mentor" academic advice column in the Chronicle of Higher Education, teaches in the English department at Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge. She is the author of Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia (1997), Inside Peyton Place: The Life of Grace Metalious (1981), and the forthcoming Ms. Mentor's Perfect Wisdom for the Academic Soul, in addition...

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