{"id":2726,"date":"2011-06-04T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2011-06-04T14:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T20:49:42","slug":"do-you-call-your-professor-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2726","title":{"rendered":"Do You Call Your Professor “Professor”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to address your professor, explained at <\/a>Inside Higher Ed<\/a>.<\/em> (This is the American version.)<\/p>\n

For those who prefer diagrams to prose, go here: “The Semiotics of Professor E-mail Signatures<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

It goes both ways. Advice to new doctorate-degree holders:<\/p>\n

Once you have successfully defended your dissertation, after that initial round of congratulations and frequently bandied “Doctors” (which your close friends will likely succeed in articulating with exceeding sarcasm), and after you’ve managed to convince your nonacademic friends that you can\u2019t write them Oxycontin prescriptions with a doctorate of philosophy, and when you show up for your first job, you’re going to need to decide how you prefer for your undergraduate and graduate students to address you. I say “undergraduate and graduate” because, if you teach both types of students, your preferences might be different in each case.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just remember, you can move from formal to informal, but going the other direction is almost impossible to gracefully achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to address your professor, explained at Inside Higher Ed. (This is the American version.) For those who prefer diagrams to prose, go here: “The Semiotics of Professor E-mail Signatures.” It goes both ways. 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