Posted by Tamar on July 5, 2005, at 16:40:02
In reply to Re: Hey you, posted by caraher on July 5, 2005, at 16:25:40
> Tamar, the issue of form of address in teaching can be complicated for me. Where I am now the students are very traditionalist and pretty much call ever faculty member "Dr. XXX" (less often "Professor XXX"). In two years I don't think I've ever heard a student address a faculty member by first name, and in front of students faculty tend to refer to other faculty by title and last name (though I forget and use the first name quite often!). In my own case, teaching while ABD, every time I get called "Dr." is one more reminder that I need to defend my dissertation!
That's interesting. I often wonder if there's a male/female difference at work sometimes. I'm female and still fairly young (compared with my colleagues) and I wonder if that makes me more of a first-name kind of person. Did you mention once that you teach physics? I'd guess you don't have lots of female colleagues, so you might get 'doctored' more often.
When do you defend your dissertation?
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