In this episode, Kim Coates and Sophia Basaldua-Sun discuss their experiences in graduate school focusing on their time as doctoral students in Comparative Literature. They cover major milestones in the Ph.D. student journey such as Coursework, Comprehensive Exams, Dissertation Defense, and Conferences. They also cover the social, emotional, and psychological side of being a Ph.D. student focusing on the mental health crisis facing graduate students and ways to cope and thrive within this atmosphere. Finally, they turn to the future of humanities degrees and various ways to utilize a graduate degree in the humanities.
 
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<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733317300422">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733317300422</a>
<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/03/graduate-students-need-more-mental-health-support-new-study-highlights">https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/03/graduate-students-need-more-mental-health-support-new-study-highlights</a>

A podcast about taking the study of all things literary out of the institutional space of the classroom and into the world.