Alex Mueller (PhD '07) wants you--specifically you, potential graduate student--to know that he wasn't accepted the first time he applied for English graduate study at Minnesota. Maybe it was because he was a nontraditional candidate, a high school English teacher (in Colorado), or maybe because he got his MA in Classics, focusing on Latin literature. But he persevered. He applied again, got in, and eventually won a Ruth Drake Dissertation Fellowship--which gave him a teaching-free semester to finish and successfully defend his dissertation. When he entered the job market, that dissertation won him a tenure-track position at University of Massachusetts Boston and, six years later, his first book publication. More. . .
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Thursday, August 29, 2013
5 X Friday: PhD Alum Alex Mueller
Alex Mueller (PhD '07) wants you--specifically you, potential graduate student--to know that he wasn't accepted the first time he applied for English graduate study at Minnesota. Maybe it was because he was a nontraditional candidate, a high school English teacher (in Colorado), or maybe because he got his MA in Classics, focusing on Latin literature. But he persevered. He applied again, got in, and eventually won a Ruth Drake Dissertation Fellowship--which gave him a teaching-free semester to finish and successfully defend his dissertation. When he entered the job market, that dissertation won him a tenure-track position at University of Massachusetts Boston and, six years later, his first book publication. More. . .
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