Scholars@Duke

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  Subject Headings

  • Career development--Blogs
  • Counseling in higher education
  • Education (Graduate)
  • English literature--19th century
  • Executive coaching
  • Humanities
  • Mentoring in education
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • LaMonaca, Maria. Masked atheism Catholicism and the secular Victorian home. Ohio State University Press, 2008.

  • Academic Articles

    • Balleisen, Edward J., and Maria LaMonaca Wisdom. “Rethinking Graduate Education in the Humanities.” Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, vol. 50, no. 5, Informa UK Limited, Sept. 2018, pp. 46–52. Crossref, doi:10.1080/00091383.2018.1510267.
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    • Wisdom, Maria LaMonaca. “Her Director, Her Priest,...Her God": Victorian Women Writers on Confession.” Nineteenth Century Studies, vol. 17, 2003, pp. 73–90.
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    • Wisdom, Maria LaMonaca. “Janes Crown of Thorns: Feminism and Christianity in Jane Eyre.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 34, no. 3, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002, pp. 245–63.
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    • Lamonaca, Maria. ““She Could Make a Cake as Well as Books ...”: Catharine Sedgwick, Anna Jameson, and the construction of the domestic intellectual.” Women’S Writing, vol. 2, no. 3, Informa UK Limited, Jan. 1995, pp. 235–49. Crossref, doi:10.1080/0969908950020303.
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  • Other Articles

    • Wisdom, Maria. “Do You Really Need to Hire A Career Coach?” The Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 Apr. 2021.
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    • Wisdom, Maria LaMonaca. “"Who's Responsible for a Ph.D. Student's Success?".” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc., 19 Feb. 2021.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • GS 950: Experiential Learning Workshop 2021
  • GS 990: Duke Graduate Academy 2021
  • GS 950: Experiential Learning Workshop 2020
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  Advising & Mentoring

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    Through "PhD Transitions," a program I launched in 2019, I offer interdisciplinary group coaching to PhD students across Duke.  
    
    Beginning in Fall 2021, I will launch a group coaching program for new faculty (years 1-2), in partnership with Duke Office of Faculty Advancement.
    
    I regularly teach GS990, "Best Practices in Mentoring," a noncredit short course I created for Duke Graduate Academy. 
    
    I direct the Arts & Sciences PhD Student Peer Mentor Fellows Program, in which advanced doctoral students learn best practices and support for running their own peer mentor groups. 
    
    I am also available for 1:1 advising & mentoring meetings with Duke PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. In this role, I serve as an informed sounding-board and safe venue for students to discuss any aspect related to their current doctoral training or future professional trajectory.

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