Timeline for Should I use both surnames when addressing a Spanish professor as 'Dr' in an email?
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| Nov 10, 2017 at 15:25 | comment | added | Ellen Spertus | @MartinBonner Thanks for letting me know British usage. My complaint about "Mr." was about being misgendered, not mistitled. American women don't like being addressed Mr. LastName or Dear Sir. Yes, it happens. | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 11:44 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | @EllenSpertus - Oh go on! "Mr." and "Mrs." are, in British medicine, formal academic titles - and the latter says nothing about the holder's marital status. Also, in Cambridge UK, Lecturers and Readers who hold PhD's not from Cambridge, Oxford, or Trinity College Dublin were - at least until the 1970's - referred to as "Mr" (I don't recall ever encountering such a female, so the question of the feminine form never arose). | |
| Nov 10, 2017 at 11:38 | comment | added | Martin Bonner supports Monica | Spanish duel surnames are not hyphenated. I also think this advice is wrong - depending on the country, "formal" can mean "as used on legal contracts only" - and would be wrong. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 3:23 | comment | added | Ellen Spertus | @tohecz, in the United States, Prof. isn't the highest title. Some professors do not have PhDs. Adjunct professors sometimes only have a Master's degree (or less, if they're from industry), and professors in the fine arts sometimes have an MFA instead of a PhD. All of them can be safely addressed "Prof." (at least in the US). I'm happy to be addressed by either Prof. or Dr. by a stranger and by first name by someone who knows me. (Don't get me started about "Mr.") | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 0:59 | comment | added | gerrit | @tohecz Is it insulting to address a full professor with "Dr. Fernandez"? | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 21:11 | comment | added | xLeitix | @tohecz "Because only them deserve that." That is dependent on the region. In many places, everybody up from assistant prof. is formally considered a professor, and reserving the formal title "prof." to full professors might insult a lot of people. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 19:46 | comment | added | Hal | Hm, good point. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | yo' | @Hal Because only them deserve that. The fact that every journal editor calls you "Prof." is given by the fact that they can't know what degree you have so they assume the highest to prevent insulting anyone. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Hal | Most professors seem to sign with their first name. But 'Hi Dr. Smith' is as casual as I'll reply. That said, here (Canada) only full professors are addressed as Prof. | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 19:25 | history | answered | yo' | CC BY-SA 3.0 |