Includes index.
Introduction / Erin Marie Furtak and Ian Parker Renga
Startup costs
Warning : scholarship can be hazardous for your health / Ian Parker Renga
Lucy and the football : my search for a job in a Charlie Brown world / Steve Newton
Chocolate frosting & the art of interviewing / Heather M. Bandeen
Changing clothes in the phone booth / Jessalynn Strauss
Occupational dissonance
Whose class is it anyway? / Julie C. Mitchell
When Homer Simpson writes Homer's Iliad : preventing plagiarism while keeping your promotion / Troy Appling
How not to teach a class / Andrew Shtulman
Publish, perish, or apply for social security : reflections on the tenure process / Logan Greene
The life of the mind in the company of others / Amanda Jansen
Professors are people, too
The village idiot / Erin Marie Furtak
Hot mess times three / Hindi Krinsky
Who's pro-creating now? : two sides of parenting in the academe / Lara Narcisi and Scott Dimovitz
How i got dismissed from jury duty : a reflection on philosophy and public life / Rick Anthony Furtak.
The road to tenure : interviews, rejections, and other humorous experiences. ISBN 9781475807981. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.