Archive for the 'Mama Ph.D. News' Category
Review: On Campus with Women
August 24th, 2008A recent issue of On Campus with Women reviewed Mama, PhD; here’s an excerpt:
“These frank essays recognize the value of communicating with others over shared experience, and they offer comfort and sustenance to women who have found that motherhood shakes the foundations of academe’s infamous mind-body divide.
“…Celebratory but realistic, these essays illustrate the multitude of […]
The MotherTalk Blog Tour!
August 20th, 2008We’re thrilled to announce that the MotherTalk blog tour for Mama, PhD has begun with a great post from blue milk:
“Mama PhD is not just a shoulder to cry on for readers grappling with what they may have thought were unique troubles in juggling academia and motherhood, it is also a call to arms for […]
Question, Question, Who’s Got a Question?
August 5th, 2008Tedra Osell, aka Bitch PhD, is now fielding questions about combining family and academic life over at the Mama, PhD blog on InsideHigherEd. Click on over and send her your questions; she’s got answers!
Mama, PhD on The Debutante Ball
July 28th, 2008Months ago, the lovely and talented Gail Konop Baker, a former Literary Mama columnist, invited Elrena and me to guest blog at The Debutante Ball, a group blog for writers publishing their first book. It was a fun post to write — and I hope a fun post to read! Here’s an excerpt from “3,000 […]
Review on Author Magazine
July 27th, 2008Check out the review by Kevin Lauderdale in the new edition of Author, which highlights the essay by Jamie Warner:
Contributor Jamie Warner and her husband endlessly debate whether or not to have children. In what is the book’s most crucial and telling line, she writes that their indecision comes from “the same […]
A Review!
June 15th, 2008Mama, PhD is getting out into the world now, making its way to readers and reviewers. Today, we spotted this review on Activistas, by the wonderful Bob Drago (whom we considered wonderful, for the work he does on academics and family life, even before he wrote this review). Here’s an excerpt:
This is easily the most […]
Mama, PhD: The T-Shirt! and the hat! and the bag!
June 13th, 2008Get your Mama, PhD shwag here at Cafe Press and let the world know you’ve got it going on , body and brain.
Now Shipping!
May 31st, 2008We’re delighted to announce that Mama, PhD is in stock and shipping now, so if you pre-ordered, look for your copy soon!
Mama, PhD blog on Inside Higher Ed!
May 4th, 2008We are thrilled to announce that InsideHigherEd is launching a new Mama PhD blog, and seven of our contributors — Libby Gruner, Megan Kajitani, Susan Bassow, Dana Campbell, Liz Stockwell, Anjalee Nadkarni and Della Fenster — will be blogging regularly there. This is a tremendous opportunity to bring the discussion of academic work/ family […]
Mama, PhD in the Berkeley Grad Student Newsletter
April 11th, 2008Check out our nice write-up in the recent edition of eGrad, a newsletter for Berkeley graduate students.
