Help, I'm trapped in an ivory tower! Or "what the fuck am i getting myself into with this academia stuff"

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.

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.

onnee page teaching philosophy

onnnnneeeee

Good luck!

Anybody here do a music composition PhD? Were you glad you did it? Thinking of doing one.

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."

attending to things, always a sign of a purposeless undertaking

don't forget "interrogate"

deathofhumanitiesocene.

Chthulucene
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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.

The elder gods cannot be periodized, come on.

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

Just had a phone interview for a 'long term' position. I think it went ok?

Best of luck, Sund4r.

Thx!

hiring for a fixed-term job

i still don't know about this but i gather my application did not 'move forward'

ah well

http://erinbartram.com/uncategorized/the-sublimated-grief-of-the-left-behind/

:(

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.

another tenured friend

and another one

Mabna Institute?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/politics/iranian-hackers-indicted-universities-government/index.html

I gave notice this morning that I will not renew my contract this fall, in order to attend to a personal matter. Walking away from a dream job: classic or dud?

Having just completed a PhD that has predictably led nowhere (for now…) I'm inclined to say 'dud', but it may turn out to be classic in the long run. Here's to hoping…

Oh, and good luck with whatever comes next.

Thanks. In short, my partner has been going through a health crisis and I can't justify continuing to live away from her most of the year, nor does it make sense for her to move. It was still a wrenching decision to make. I realize that I'm nudging the door to a permanent academic position a little more closed by walking out on a full-time position that it took years of struggle to get in the first place. In the end, though, I didn't go into music because I wanted to put 'a job' above all else, nor because I wanted my life choices dictated by a marketplace of ruthless bureaucracies.

huzzah

trapped in adjunct hell. they're giving me an award next week and i'm supposed to sign a contract to teach a summer course sometime in the next few days. typical situation where they continue to throw me crumbs and i continue to greedily eat them because most of the other jobs around here are worse, if better paying.

anyway, hi everyone, been a long time.

I'm really sorry to hear that, Sund4r. It's of little comfort, but you most certainly made the right decision.

It definitely feels like the right thing to do but, yeah, wasn't easy.

http://www.nea.org/grants/teacherday.html

writing prelims in 3 weeks pray for me

Good luck! Economics?

prayers sent! a prelims horror story: we started a half hour late on day 1 of 2 because someone in my cohort got stuck in the elevator

xp- yes. and thanks :)

congrats flopson??

thx man :)

first year was pretty awesome, i gotta say. material was mostly boring but 2 terrific stats profs and one excellent theory prof kept me going. the real salvation, though, was falling so hard in love with the friends i've made in the program. the only bad part is being so far from my family; my mother and i keep in touch, but it's painful to miss seeing my 8 and 15 year old cousins grow up

a year in sounds pretty early for prelims but i guess i don't know from prelims

our prelims were after the first year

our dept calls them comps even though we don’t have quals

Congrats dude!

thanks :)

Congrats!

thx :)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-20/the-homeless-crisis-is-getting-worse-in-america-s-richest-cities

L., who asked to go by her middle initial for fear of losing her job, couldn’t afford her apartment earlier this year after failing to cobble together enough teaching assignments at two community colleges. By July she’d exhausted her savings and turned to a local nonprofit called Safe Parking L.A., which outfits a handful of lots around the city with security guards, port-a-potties, Wi-Fi, and solar-powered electrical chargers. Sleeping in her car would allow her to save for a deposit on an apartment. On that night in late September, under basketball hoops owned by an Episcopal church in Koreatown, she was one of 16 people in 12 vehicles. Ten of them were female, two were children, and half were employed.

one of my students accidentally uploaded his IT homework to me instead of his philosophy homework - basic concepts about variables and assignment operators in python

so i graded it anyway and gave helpful comments

from this episode i have learned that i should probably be able to teach a freshman course in that department, sadly i lack the appropriate credential to be able to snag the work

idk reach out informally, philosophy is a better background for programming than computer science imo