I initial “met” Paige on Twitter back in 2013, and then I met her in person in Toronto when she was doing a postdoc at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. And now? She’s working at the University of Miami. Read about Paige’s transition from English graduate student to digital humanities librarian.
Like many Humanities graduate students, my decision to pursue a PhD was influenced by my undergraduate experience. What I realized was that I’d pursued a PhD because I saw being a professor as the most meaningful way of making a difference in the world, or alternately, the only way that I could make a meaningful difference in the world. There’s a bit of ivory tower elitism in that perspective, but there’s also a lot of patriarchal socialization: on a subconscious level, teaching in a university was the only sort of leadership role that I could imagine for myself. It wasn’t that I had consciously rejected other roles as somehow inappropriate; it was that I’d been so conditioned that I’d never once imagined them for myself.
Here’s the rest!