“I want to be coachable, but not a doormat.” That was a comment I heard during a recent conversation with a doctoral student who was describing an experience they had with their dissertation chair.

In the wake of 2020, responding to changes in the world and in academic job markets, Brandeis’s English faculty decided to change the structure and requirements of their PhD program. Among these ...

For sixth-year English PhD student Yi He, teaching and learning are intertwined. For her dissertation, not only is she writing a series of essays about her research topic, Puritan media; she’s also ...

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The CHA offers two campuswide dissertation fellowships open to any CU Boulder Ph.D. candidate working in the humanities and arts. The fellowship covers tuition for up to 5 dissertation hours per ...

Writing a dissertation is a grueling process that does not just require academic prowess, an excellent writing style and mastery of a very specific area of knowledge. It also demands discipline (in ...

Being in lockdown has been a difficult situation for everyone, however I have found it additionally difficult because I have also had to complete a dissertation project. Like many other students, I ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

The desire to quantify and assess our children has dominated educational thinking over the past 20 years. IQ and base line tests rank students in a hierarchy of intelligence, while public examinations ...

Here are some perspectives from different professors across the College of Arts & Sciences: Writing an honors thesis is an opportunity to make your own education. To pursue an idea or interest that ...