On Becoming a Scholar

The origins of On Becoming a Scholar lie in the realization that there is a need for a vademecum, a handy compendium of ideas, plans, and strategies for building a productive and fulfilling academic career to guide the host of prospective academics.

Becoming a Scholar is geared to help relatively new scholars to construct personal futures and to find their way through the 21st-century university. It is intended to be a map, and like any map, it does not contain all the contours and details of the landscape but rather seeks to reveal the important pathways and milestones in the journey to becoming an established academic.

Drawing on highly experienced academics and accomplished professors in their different fields, as well as promising younger academics already on their way, this book covers a concentrated resource of practical wisdom. The topics are broad and, cumulatively, they seek to answer the many questions that experienced mentors encounter every day in their work with new academics. Rather than offering an apologia for classics, these dialogues engage with pressing questions of relevance, identity, change, the canon, and the dynamics of decolonization and potential recolonization. The goal is to interrogate classics - the ways it has been taught, studied, perceived, transformed and even lived - from many points of view.

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