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How to Succeed in Academia (While Failing at Everything Else)

by Ross Bullen

Academic life, with the absurdity turned up

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Academic life, with the absurdity turned up

Ross Bullen frames higher education as material for a satirical guide, bringing academic work and everyday precarity into the same comic view. The book ranges across familiar pressures of the profession, including completing a dissertation, seeking academic employment, and dealing with imposter syndrome. Its deliberately outlandish examples—from invoking Pazuzu to imagining raccoons sharing an identity—signal that this is humor about academia, not a practical handbook for navigating its procedures. The scope spans both career milestones and the less glamorous conditions surrounding them, giving the subject a distinctly irreverent angle.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in humorous takes on academic work and higher education
  • Graduate students or academics open to satire about dissertations, job searches, and imposter syndrome

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Academic lifeHigher educationCareer precarityImposter syndromeSatire

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Book overview

Are you passionate about learning, teaching, and making less than $15,000 a year? Do you enjoy tweed blazers, crisp autumn afternoons, and stealing lunch from unattended cafeteria trays? Have you ever longed to drive, sleep, and hold your office hours in a 30-year-old car? If so, then a career in academia might be right for you!

 

How to Succeed in Academia (While Failing at Everything Else) is a satirical guide to every aspect of life in higher ed, whether it's finishing your dissertation on time (or at least before the heat death of the universe), applying for an academic job (by summoning the ancient Mesopotamian demon Pazuzu), or overcoming imposter syndrome (even if you're a family of raccoons living in a Fj

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