Abstract
Effective mentorship is critical for growing as a member of the field, achieving professional success, exploring careers, and gaining self-confidence and a sense of belonging. Traditional views of mentoring focus on the mentor’s responsibility to direct the mentoring relationship, with the underlying assumption that the mentee has less agency and responsibility. “Mentoring up” is a concept adapted from the business concept of “managing up” that “empowers mentees to be active participants in their mentoring relationships by shifting the emphasis from the mentors’ responsibilities in the mentor-mentee relationship to equal emphasis on the mentees’ contributions” to obtain desired results (Lee et al. 2015). Come learn from our panelists how to mentor up to ensure that your mentoring needs are met.
Reference: Lee, S.P., R. McGee, C. Pfund, and J. Branchaw. 2015. “Mentoring Up”: Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships. In The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School to Tenure, ed. by G. Wright. Syracuse, NY: The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University.
Panel Participants
Dr. Hadas Kotek (Apple/MIT) received a PhD in Linguistics from MIT in 2014 with a research specialty in theoretical and experimental syntax/semantics. She worked in temporary research and teaching positions at McGill University, New York University, and Yale University. She is currently a data scientist on the Siri Natural Language Understanding team and maintains a research affiliation with MIT Linguistics. Dr. Kotek has taught several workshops about diverse careers for linguists (including LING123 at the Summer Institute, Session 1). She is also the outgoing chair of the LSA Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics and a founding member of the Pop-Up Mentoring Program.
Dr. Iara Mantenuto (California State University, Dominguez Hills) is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and the TESOL MA director in the English Department at California State University Dominguez Hills. She is also one of the founders of the First Gen Equity and Access committee of the LSA and the current chair. She has been trained in Advancing Inclusive Mentoring and Teaching First Generation Students, and she has been mentoring students in the past four years for the LSA Mentoring Program, the Pop-Up Mentoring Program, Mellon Mays, the CSUDH Office of Undergraduate Research Summer Program and the CSUDH Graduate Equity Fellowship Program. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2020 from UCLA. Her research focuses on language revitalization and documentation, morphosyntax and linguistics pedagogy.
Dr. Patricia Amaral (Indiana University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University. After obtaining her Ph.D. in 2007, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and then an Assistant Professor at the University of Liverpool (UK) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research areas are semantics/pragmatics and historical linguistics.
Moderator: Ankana Saha (Harvard University)
