low bar
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 3 December 2016 05:34 (seven years ago) link
needs placement on trenchant / challop quad diagram
the writing center info page for faculty at my university provides 'workshops' in the form of… videos… by writing center staff
― j., Sunday, 1 January 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Got to sit on the other side of the interview table today, which was interesting.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Without giving too much away, my role was obv minor but it was a little nerve-wracking to be reminded that within a year or two, after my appointment runs out, I'll probably be lucky to be in their shoes at an interview (if I stay in this mill). Felt empathetic. Also notable to get a sense of what it's like when a committee has to deliberate between frankly overqualified candidates in a pinch.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
Btw, does anyone know of literature on the job search experiences/career paths of people who got faculty jobs in the 70s and 80s?
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
I want to study more--about to look into a class :)
― surm, Thursday, 20 April 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
Alert: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000375169-01
Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities are available for the 2018-2019 academic year on the general theme of STUFF.
― ryan, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
the general theme of STUFF
Perfect ILE board description, but I'll steal it for myself, for now.
― the general theme of STUFF (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
the whatever turn in the humanities
― jmm, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
I feel like these cutesy postdoc themes have really become a popular trend in the last 5 years or so.
― ryan, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/swarm
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
Today, during a Q&A session at a major conference in my field, the first question was: “You claim that your paper is novel, but I don’t see the novelty. What’s the novelty?” The author of the paper tried to explain, but the questioner was relentless and kept insisting that the paper was “less than minor” and “bad for science.” Thankfully, the questioner, after a few minutes (and some boos and jeers from the audience) sat down. It was insane and terrible. Academia can be the worst.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 06:25 (six years ago) link
It also had the trifecta of class, gender, and racial undertones (the presenter is a female post-doc at a Chinese university and the questioner is a well-known male professor as an elite Germany university).
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 26 July 2017 06:28 (six years ago) link
'was ist das noveltee??'
― j., Wednesday, 26 July 2017 10:15 (six years ago) link
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/swarm🕸
This looks good. Is it?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 10:18 (six years ago) link
ugh tfw your peers are making FULL professor behind like doing nothing
?!?!?
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:08 (six years ago) link
I have some grad colleagues (who finished after me) at full who've published NOTHING not even from their theses but they're at regional unis in the American Midwest fwiw
there's no direct route to full here, can't be promoted but have to apply when full spots open, so I'll probably have to go to a provincial city to be full and I don't wanna though profs in the provinces often live here and take the train to teach their one day a week or whatever so it's not that bad, plus I hear e.g. Grenoble is nice
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
atm my academic career is also mostly watching my peers zoom ahead of me. admittedly my current status of fruitlessly striving for exploitatively low-paid temporary lecturing positions doesn't exactly seem like a difficult marker to surpass, but,
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
yeah euler that's exactly the kind of career i'm goggling at, some other schools - not top ones - it even looks more like it's tenure-denial-ready
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:09 (six years ago) link
a la 'well we appreciate that you did good work, but it's just not enough'
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
this was making the rounds:https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/28/more-humanities-phds-are-awarded-job-openings-are-disappearing
the chart at the bottom is oof but conforms with my perception of the trends.
― ryan, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
i can hardly believe jobs doubled during my grad school tenure, for just long enough for the market to fall apart after the financial crisis
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
good old reliable classics, that's the way to go, no surprises, no letdowns
i would be interested in seeing those job numbers broken down into specializations. ime a LOT of those "English" jobs are Comp/Rhetoric, Creative Writing, ie not Literature and I think they are taking up a greater and greater share of what's available as well. So pure Lit jobs have dropped even more precipitously.
― ryan, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
gotta claw together enough enrollments to keep the doors open with those service courses
― j., Tuesday, 29 August 2017 19:56 (six years ago) link
I'm pretty sure my first year college physics lab partner was made full professor before I'd finished grad school! He is a smart cookie though and doubtless deserves it.
― badg, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:04 (six years ago) link
via the table is the table
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 October 2017 14:40 (six years ago) link
took a look, out of morbid curiosity, at the MLA job list for English and wow is it a disaster.
― ryan, Wednesday, 4 October 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
my employer (one of my employers) is hiring for a fixed-term job like mine but better. it has some criteria that i could fail to meet or could be beaten out in by a better candidate, but it certainly seems ripe for the internal-hire-we-know-can-do-the-job scenario that is the adjunct's fantasy. (and i won't lose the job i do precariously have in any case.) so i'm gonna apply. but it's been so long since i applied for anything seriously that the prospect of shaping up my materials is anxiety-inducing.
― j., Tuesday, 10 October 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
nice. good luck! i've only intermittently looked at the MLA list this year. i actually feel relieved that there's almost nothing to apply to.
― ryan, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
onnee page teaching philosophy
onnnnneeeee
― j., Tuesday, 10 October 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
Good luck!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
Anybody here do a music composition PhD? Were you glad you did it? Thinking of doing one.
― mirostones, Sunday, 15 October 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56015
The University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship on the Plantationocene sponsored by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar grant. In addition to pursuing her/his research, the Postdoctoral fellow will be in charge of administrating a seminar that will run from the spring of 2019 through the spring of 2020 working in collaboration with faculty seminar leaders (Monique Allewaert, Pablo Gómez, and Gregg Mitman). This seminar will gather scholars from a range of disciplines to explore and deepen the concept of the Plantationocene. We will attend to other recent ways of naming our epoch (Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene) and interrogate the past and present of plantations: their materialities; the economic, ecological, and political transformations they wrought; and their significance to the making of human bodies, capitalism, and land over the course of four centuries.
Fredric Jameson termed this kind of thing "periodization."
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:33 (six years ago) link
attending to things, always a sign of a purposeless undertaking
― j., Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
don't forget "interrogate"
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:36 (six years ago) link
deathofhumanitiesocene.
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:37 (six years ago) link
ChthuluceneAbout 113,000 results (0.38 seconds)
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
Wow
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
haha. that one is donna haraway's fault. (xpost)
there really is something to be said for doing work that tries to evade it's own memeification.
― ryan, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
The elder gods cannot be periodized, come on.
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 November 2017 18:43 (six years ago) link
taxing tuition remissions. as if we needed more rich kid professors. i wonder too if grad school applications would drop below the current acceptance threshold
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 20 November 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Just had a phone interview for a 'long term' position. I think it went ok?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Best of luck, Sund4r.
― pomenitul, Monday, 29 January 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
Thx!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 01:39 (six years ago) link
hiring for a fixed-term job
i still don't know about this but i gather my application did not 'move forward'
ah well
― j., Tuesday, 30 January 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
http://erinbartram.com/uncategorized/the-sublimated-grief-of-the-left-behind/
― ? (seandalai), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
:(
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
She hasn't even arrived at the worst part yet.
Leaving academia isn't so bad. It's very leave-able and there's a lot about it that's good to be done with. I imagine that most who leave academia are pretty happy about it in the long run.
But the problem is that not everyone can really leave (given their employment records, skills, etc.), and so they remain forever on the bubble of "contingent faculty"--with no real purpose or motivation to be an engaged "scholar" and also no real hope of any other kind of career.
― ryan, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link