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Doodling for Academics: A Coloring and Activity Book (Chicago Guides to Academic Life)
Julie Schumacher
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Paperback. Illustrator(s): Nassef, Lauren. Num Pages: 96 pages, 40 line drawings. BIC Classification: WF; WZS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 203. .
To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes...Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the trenches of academe are well acquainted with the professoriate's dark underside: the hierarchies and pseudo-political power plays, the peculiar colleagues, the over-parented students, the stacks of essays that need to be graded ASAP. No one understands this world better than novelist Julie Schumacher, who here provides a bitingly funny distraction designed to help you survive life in higher ... Read more
To an outsider, working as a university professor might seem like a dream: summers off, a few hours of class each week, an exchange of ideas with brilliant colleagues, books and late afternoon lattes...Who wouldn't envy that life? But those in the trenches of academe are well acquainted with the professoriate's dark underside: the hierarchies and pseudo-political power plays, the peculiar colleagues, the over-parented students, the stacks of essays that need to be graded ASAP. No one understands this world better than novelist Julie Schumacher, who here provides a bitingly funny distraction designed to help you survive life in higher ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226467047
SKU
V9780226467047
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99-28
About Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of the best-selling Dear Committee Members, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Reviews for Doodling for Academics: A Coloring and Activity Book (Chicago Guides to Academic Life)
Schumacher is not your typical writer when it comes to depicting (and poking fun at) academic life.
Inside Higher Ed Provides a satirical take on the grim reality for today's scholars, from the lack of funding for arts and humanities to the burden of administrative red tape.
Times Higher Education Better than a massage! Better than acupuncture! Better ... Read more
Inside Higher Ed Provides a satirical take on the grim reality for today's scholars, from the lack of funding for arts and humanities to the burden of administrative red tape.
Times Higher Education Better than a massage! Better than acupuncture! Better ... Read more