Elizabeth A. Wells completed her Doctorate in Musicology at Eastman, and is currently Music Historian, and formerly Dean of Arts and Picard-Bell Chair in Music at Mount Allison University (Canada’s long-time top-ranked institution). Alongside her many professional accolades, such as winning the AMS Music in American Culture Award for her book on West Side Story, and the AMS Teaching Award for her revolutionary reinvention of the typical undergraduate Music History sequence, she has been coaching academic high-flyers and achievers for decades.

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An exhaustive yet wonderfully readable guide on how to create joy in every aspect of the academic profession through straightforward advice, exercises, and templates. Professor Wells is the ideal guide both to the freshly minted assistant professor and others more advanced.

Elizabeth A. Wells completed her Doctorate in Musicology at Eastman, and is currently Music Historian, and formerly Dean of Arts and Picard-Bell Chair in Music at Mount Allison University (Canada’s long-time top-ranked institution). Alongside her many professional accolades, such as winning the AMS Music in American Culture Award for her book on West Side Story, and the AMS Teaching Award for her revolutionary reinvention of the typical undergraduate Music History sequence, she has been coaching academic high-flyers and achievers for decades.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionKnow ThyselfTimeWritingTeachingNuts and BoltsLifePostscriptBibliography About the AuthorIndex

An exhaustive yet wonderfully readable guide on how to create joy in every aspect of the academic profession through straightforward advice, exercises, and templates. Professor Wells is the ideal guide both to the freshly minted assistant professor and others more advanced.

Elizabeth A. Wells completed her Doctorate in Musicology at Eastman, and is currently Music Historian, and formerly Dean of Arts and Picard-Bell Chair in Music at Mount Allison University (Canada’s long-time top-ranked institution). Alongside her many professional accolades, such as winning the AMS Music in American Culture Award for her book on West Side Story, and the AMS Teaching Award for her revolutionary reinvention of the typical undergraduate Music History sequence, she has been coaching academic high-flyers and achievers for decades.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionKnow ThyselfTimeWritingTeachingNuts and BoltsLifePostscriptBibliography About the AuthorIndex

An exhaustive yet wonderfully readable guide on how to create joy in every aspect of the academic profession through straightforward advice, exercises, and templates. Professor Wells is the ideal guide both to the freshly minted assistant professor and others more advanced.