The Wayward Professor Author:Joel J. Gold, Vivian Scott Hixson These humorous tales, written with lightly satiric, self-deprecating charm, will delight anyone who has ever spent time on a college campus. On topics ranging from academic meetings to motivating recalcitrant students, from grantsmanship to the I.R.S., from the follies and foibles of academics to sabbaticals and living overseas, they present wry... more », witty portrayals of academic life. Wonderfully illustrated with caricatures depicting the diffident, bemused, often befuddled Wayward Professor, they will ring true for professors and students--past and present. Joel J. Gold's gentle, self-effacing, Thurberesque humor is inspired by his own experiences in the academic world. A professor of English and recipient of an Amoco Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Kansas, he has also taught at Bowling Green State University and at the University of Illinois. He also spent a year as Visiting Intra-University Professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas, and he escapes to London on sabbatical whenever he can. A well-known eighteenth-century specialist, he is the editor of A Voyage to Abyssinia in the Yale edition of The Works of Samuel Johnson. Gold's amusing back-page pieces on academic life appear regularly in the Chronicle of Higher Education. His humor has also been published in Academe, FordTimes, and Winds and has been reprinted in college textbooks.« less