Modern British 2010

STATS:


 * PhD: 9
 * ABD: 5
 * ABD and will defend this year: 2
 * Post Doc: 1
 * FIrst time on market: 2
 * Three or more years on market: 4
 * Unemployed, looking for job:
 * Have short-term gig, looking for TT: 6
 * Have TT position, looking for new one: 1
 * Tenured but hankering after greener pastures:
 * Glutton for punishment: 1
 * Is nervously checking my cell phone and my e-mail every five minutes hoping to get an MLA invite: 1
 * Getting impatient! (The Americanists seem to have so much more gossip!): 2
 * Added a "gossip" column at the end of the job list

Primary area of research:
 * Fiction: 7
 * Drama:
 * Poetry: 3
 * Other:
 * Modernism: 7
 * pre-1945:2
 * post-1945: 7

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JOBS:

Bridgewater State College (MA) British and Irish modernism (Until Filled) Link

 * Does anyone have an idea if this position might be an inside hire?
 * Have you been given a reason to think it is?
 * I thought that I saw a VAP here that did British and Irish modernism, but I must have seen it at another school. I've looked at so many websites that they all begin to look the same...

Eastern Illinois (11/6) 20th/21st C British

 * email ack. with link to online EEO (10/28) (11/18 x3, 11/19)

Ithaca College (rolling) British modernLink

 * has anyone heard anything from Ithaca? A1: Nothing here. A2: No, but it's early days.
 * Is it still early days? (11/29)

Marquette University (11/1) Modern British and Irish

 * Request for writing sample (11/2)
 * So fast-- congrats! Can you say when you filed your application?
 * I'm not the OP, but have info from the 20th/21st c. American page (Marquette's also hiring in that area): They seem to be reading applications as they are submitted online. Several people were asked for writing samples well before the deadline passed. [Looks like most people got requests within a week after they submitted their applications.] (11/4)
 * To the OP, who reported request on 11/2, you applied specifically for the British job, right? (As opposed to the Americanist job?)

MIT (10/20) Contemporary Literature or Media (not specifically British)

 * email ack. (11/5)
 * 20th/21st c. American page indicates requests for further materials were made on 10/30 and 11/13.
 * Same on the Film Studies page--looks like they may not have wanted British lit. people.

Providence College (11/02) Modernism / 20C British and Irish link

 * email ack. notifying me that transcript not yet received (thank these good people!) (11/12 x 2)

Ripon College (11/1)

 * ack via snail mail (11/9)

Rowan University (NJ) (11/02) 20thC / 21stC British

 * email ack 10/23 (two days after application) --- Q: has anyone else who e-mailed an application gotten an ack yet? --- A: yes, email ack (10/25, 10/31) --- Q2: thanks. maybe better to put it this way: has anyone else who e-mailed an application NOT gotten an ack yet? --- A2: I just spoke with the dept. chair, who said they are having e-mail trouble. So if you haven't received an ack, that's why. (I consolidated this thread; hope no one minds.)
 * WS request 11/14
 * Request for writing sample and statement of teaching philosophy 11/14
 * same request 11/7

St. Olaf College (10/15) Global lits in English and 20/21C British link

 * email ack (10/15), (11/1) (x2)

University of Chicago (11/6) American, British, or Anglophone literatures from 1880 to 1950

 * Request for writing sample 11/23

University of Chicago (11/6) American, British, or Anglophone literatures from 1950 to present

 * American page lists requests for extra materials (11/23) (but right now the requests seem to be for the 1880-1950 range) [From OP: Oops--sorry! That info wasn't yet up when I posted this update here.]

University of Nevada - Reno (10/29) 20th C. British and/or Post-Colonial link

 * Request for writing sample and dossier (letters, Xscripts) (11/11)

University of North Carolina - Greensboro (11/20) Post 1900 British and Anglophone Literature link

 * Snail mail ack. with AA form (11/16), (11/21) (ditto 11/28)

University of North Florida (11/2) Early 20th Link

 * Request for writing sample (11/9x2) (11/13)

University of Wisconsin - La Crosse (11/20) British and/or Irish Modernist Literature Link

 * request for rec letters, made straight to recommenders 11/5 (PS, from OP: I think this automatically happens when you file an application)
 * Has anyone who made an application to La Crosse *not* gotten a dossier request? I'm trying to confirm the accuracy of the last post.
 * It's definitely automatic. My recommenders notified me of the request the very same day I filed the application. (I know that doesn't *exactly* answer your question, but hope it helps.)
 * Yes, that's exactly what i was wondering about. Thank you!

University of Wisconsin at Madison (11/27) post-1945 British and Irish literature

 * Has anyone had an ack of application?
 * Yes; letter received 11/13 (x2), 11/23 (x2)

Westminster College (MO) (11/13) 20th C British or American

 * Snail mail ack. with AA form (11/23)

Gossip

 * How about posting the odd rejection letter here, the best and the worst? We can start a rejection letter hall of fame/infamy.