Position Associate Professor, Department of English Role GradFUTURES Learning Cohort Participant Title Future Faculty Workshop Speaker Bio/Description Joshua Kotin is an associate professor in the Department of English. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Program in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES); and an associated faculty member at the University Center for Human Values (UCHV). His research and teaching focus on modernism, poetry and poetics, and American literature. He received his B.A. from McGill University and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. From 2005 to 2008, he was editor of Chicago Review. Prof. Kotin participated in the 2018-2019 version of the American Higher Ed GradFUTURES Learning Cohort. "Graduate education in the humanities is changing. Most humanities PhDs will not secure tenure-track jobs. Discussions about how to respond to this state of affairs are vital. The Higher Ed workshop is where those discussions are taking place. The workshop is an important forum for exploring graduate student professional development in the twenty-first century." Upcoming Professional Development Events Dec 2 Creating a Toy Windmill: 3D Modeling Workshop Dec 3 Getting Started with LaTeX Dec 4 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person) Dec 4 Office Hours with Leonard Cassuto Dec 4 American Higher Ed Learning Cohort Session 5: Professionalization- Degrees, Other Credentials, Careers Dec 5 Managing Active Research Data Dec 7 Writing to Influence: How Academia Inspires Action with Christopher Paul Harris Dec 7 LaTeX Drop-in Consultations Dec 7 Cynthia Dwork: It’s in Your Phone. It’s in Your Browser. It’s in Your Redistricting Data! … It’s Differential Privacy. Dec 8 30 Minutes Towards Better Bibliographies and Footnotes! (online) Dec 8 Introduction to Environmental Studies Library Research: Water Use and Availability Dec 11 Office Hours for Humanities and Social Sciences Graduate Students (In Person)
