{"id":17225,"date":"2010-10-02T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2010-10-02T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T20:05:33","slug":"from-brock-to-oxford-and-beyond-a-lesson-in-mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/02\/from-brock-to-oxford-and-beyond-a-lesson-in-mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"From Brock to Oxford and Beyond: A Lesson in Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/allan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17226\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/allan-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/allan-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/allan-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/allan.jpg 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, on the advice of a professor at Queen\u2019s University, I began a second Masters degree in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts at Brock University.\u00a0 It was at there that I met Dr. Cristina Santos, who would become the supervisor of my research, and, although I am no longer at Brock, she has continued to mentor me.<\/p>\n<p>When I left Brock, it was with scholarly skills I had developed only because Professor Santos encouraged me to push the boundaries of my research, to dig deeper into the questions I was considering, and to read texts closely, textually, hermeneutically.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, while I was teaching as a part-time instructor at Brock University, she encouraged me to submit an abstract for a conference at Oxford University.\u00a0 Writing abstracts for this particular conference was a key part of the course she was teaching \u2013 a course I had taken three years earlier.\u00a0 That course is to prepare students for an academic career: writing abstracts, writing lectures, writing articles.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I submitted an abstract which was later accepted by the conference committee, and, thanks to the good advice of my mentor, I travelled to Oxford University where I presented my current research.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t travel alone. \u00a0When I arrived at Oxford, I realized that I was accompanied by several of Professor Santos\u2019 students, and we were all participating in a conference that she had encouraged us all to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The lessons of mentorship, as I have learned, extend far beyond the one or two years we spend at a university.\u00a0 As Cristina Santos demonstrates by her exceptional example, mentorship extends far beyond the one or two years we study with a supervisor.\u00a0 Mentorship is a continued commitment to students and their scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, on the advice of a professor at Queen\u2019s University, I began a second Masters degree in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts at Brock University.\u00a0 It was at there that I met Dr. Cristina Santos, who would become the supervisor of my research, and, although I am no longer at Brock, she has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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