Analytical Grrl Manifesto - Rough Draft #1 | Page 11

8. Respect the student’s identity as an independent learner: 1. Engage with the student’s personal interests, find commonalities 2. Suggest independent reading, or better yet, lend it out. Invite recommendations! 3. Understand the student’s intellectual history - what books/experiences were formative in shaping their intellectual identity? Why do they care about the field? How do they identify with the field? 9. Hold office hours. Nothing makes a department more inaccessible than professors who are literally inaccessible. In the Classroom 1. If you ask a question, let everyone think about it before calling