Early career humanists at Penn are invited to a virtual Recommendation Letter Workshop led by Karen Redrobe, Wolf Humanities Center Director, and Sophia Rosenfeld, Wolf Humaniites Center 'Choice' Topic Director, that addresses the following topics:
- what to request from people wanting a letter from you or to provide for people writing for you as well as who to ask and why
- how much time is reasonable for turnaround
- basic ingredients of a strong, useful letter
- the difference between individualized vs. Interfolio letters
- expectations / genre differences for different kinds of letters (grad school, fellowships, tenure, etc)
- frequent symptoms of bias in letters and how to avoid them
- things not to do / what can go wrong with letters
- what to do if you see a damning letter in a file or if you suspect you have one
- ideal length
