This wry portrayal of academic life will delight anyone who has ever spent time on a college campus. Writing with lightly satirical, self-deprecating charm, Joel Gold covers topics ranging from academic conventions to motivating recalcitrant students, from grantsmanship to the I.R.S., from the follies and foibles of academics to sabbaticals and living overseas. Twenty-six tales are illustrated with caricatures that capture perfectly the diffident, bemused, often befuddled wayward professor.
Gold presents wry portrayals of life on campus and off—from grantsmanship to motivating recalcitrant students, from the follies and foibles of academics to the sabbaticals and living overseas.
StorytellingThe Classroom and Its Pitfalls
-The Paper Shredder
-Kneecapped in the Art Museum
-The Beast in the Champaign Jungle
-Fear and Trembling in the English Novel
-Satire a la Sartre
-The Hazards of Humor
Research Capers
-The Two Cultures and Dr. Franklins Fly
-Seduced by Scholarship
-The Shorthand Man
-Memoirs of a Library Collector
Professional Business
-The University of Requests the Honor of Your Presence
-Academic Conventions
-The Ph.D. and the IRS: Innocence and Experience
-Ingenuity and the Grant Application
After Hours Amusements
-Party Time in Academe
-Rum Running in Kansas
-Revenge of the Kanji
Travelers Tales
-Wheeling and Dealing at the Luxembourg Airport
-My Italian Fiaasco: Arrivederci, Trezzo
-The V Sign and Other Old-World Driving Hazards
-Peril on the Sea
An Alien in London
-Sabbatical Projects: Learning the Language and Reading the Natives
-Alien Registration and Other Formalities
-Sixteen Minutes to the British Museum
Endnote
-September Song
Joel J. Gold was a professor of English at the University of Kansas from 1962 until his retirement in 1999.
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