English Research Guide

Writing Processes & Your Research Project

• Allen, Jan E., and Chris M. Golde. The Productive Graduate Student Writer : How to Manage Your Time, Process, and Energy to Write Your Research Proposal, Thesis, and Dissertation and Get Published. Taylor & Francis, 2019.

• Anzaldúa, Gloria. Light in the Dark: Luz en lo oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality. Durham, North Carolina: Duke UP, 2015. 

• Bolker, Joan. Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis. Henry Holt, 1998.

• Boyd, Michelle R. Becoming the Writer You Already Are. SAGE Publications, 2022.

• Clark, Irene L. Writing the Successful Thesis and Dissertation : Entering the Conversation. Prentice Hall, 2007. 

• Esposito, Jennifer, and Venus Evans-Winters. Intersectional Qualitative Research. Sage Publications, 2022.

• Fine, Michelle. Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological Imagination. Teachers College Press. Teachers College Press, 2017.

• Foss, Sonja K., and William Joseph Condon Waters. Destination Dissertation : A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007.

• McKee, Kimberly, and Denise A. Delgado, editors. Degrees of Difference : Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School. University of Illinois Press, 2021.

• Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve, and Magdalena L. Barrera. The Latinx Guide to Graduate School. Duke University Press, 2023.

• Silvia, Paul J. How to Write a Lot : A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing. Second edition., American Psychological Association, 2019.

Methods & Methodologies

• Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples
• Working in the Archives
• Writing Studies Research in Practice: Method and Methodologies
• Research Methods for English Studies
• The Limits of Critique
• Doing Cultural Studies
• The racial imaginary: writers on race in the life of the mind

Career Resources

• Going alt-ac: a guide to alternative academic careers

• NASPA Guide for Graduate Students of Color in Their First Year
• NexGen
• Fight the Tower
• Strike University
• New Faculty Majority