Society for Music Research
One of the staples of the SMR Forum, the Dissertation Writing Group has been going strong again this semester. Members meet weekly to exchange abstracts, proposals, conference papers, articles, and dissertation chapters, and they receive feedback from their eagle-eyed colleagues while sipping a warm beverage. Informal and little-substantiated studies indicate that participants' productivity increases markedly upon joining the group.
—Elizabeth McLain and William van Geest