| Title | Building Your Own Villa |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Jane Chance (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0205.1.22 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-ballad-of-the-lone-medievalist/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Chance, Jane |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2018-08-23 |
| Long abstract | The way I found to ease the many negatives of being both the lone medievalist and the first tenure-track woman in the English Department at a small private university (as Rice was at the time I arrived in 1973, with 2,300 undergraduates and 1,000 gradu-ate students) was to learn to build on connections with others, whether students or colleagues. After finishing my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1971, I had taught for two years at the snow-laden University of Saskatchewan-Saskatoon. Longing to return to an urban environment, I came to sunny Houston as a very young assistant professor, girded with a book contract in hand for a revised dissertation and boundless optimism. Two medievalists had taught in the department prior to my advent, but I was hired specifically to replace the Anglo-Saxonist. |
| Page range | pp. 249–258 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |