Linguistics 2009-2010

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A request: Could posters please use more specific time phrasing as "the week of March 14" or "January" instead of "this week" or "last month"? This way, the information can stay informative.

Good luck to everybody with their search!

 * Visitor Type:


 * ABD, not defending soon: 1
 * ABD, defending within 4-6 months: 13
 * ABD, I have a set date for my defense: 3
 * ABD, no defense at my U: 2
 * Depends on job hunt when I file: 4
 * Ph.D. in hand, no job currently: 3
 * Ph.D in hand, not currently in an academic position: 1
 * Visiting Professor, Lecturer, Adjunct: 4
 * Postdoc: 9
 * Research Scientist: 1
 * Assistant Professor: 5
 * Associate Professor:
 * Member of a Search Committee: 1
 * Just browsing:


 * Specialty:


 * Historical Linguistics: 4
 * Theoretical Linguistics:
 * Syntax: 4
 * Morphology: 1
 * Phonology: 9
 * Phonetics: 5
 * Sociolinguistics: 12
 * Psycholinguistics: 4
 * Language Acquisition: 5
 * Semantics and Pragmatics: 2


 * How many applications have you sent out this year?:


 * 1-10: 31
 * 10-20: 8
 * 21-30: 2
 * 31-40: 1
 * 41 and above:
 * Wishes schools would get off their asses and schedule MLA/LSA interviews already: 11
 * Wishes everyone would just chill out and realize that stressing out about this stuff doesn't make anything happen faster: 7
 * Realizes what the previous comment says but just needs something to keep going: 7

Arizona State University
Deadline: 5-Nov-2009

Field(s): Second Language Acquisition; Syntax

Notes: Phone interview (12/1) (x2)

Questions: Did you have the interview or did they call to schedule it?

A: I had an interview. The interview was scheduled on 11/20.

Q: Was only one person requested for an interview?

A (posted on 1/21): I also had an interview on 12/1. They told me they were hoping to have their short list by the winter break. I haven't heard anything else from them though.

Q: Is this search still going on or did they freeze it again?

Arizona State University
Deadline: 16-Nov-2009

Field(s): Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Typology

Notes: E-mail acknowledgment of application (11/16) (x4)

Request for writing sample and references contacted for letters of recommendation. (12/07) (x3)

Call on 01/12 to set up telephone interview for following week. (x3)

Questions: Does anyone know anything about this position? ASU already has someone (Elly van Gelderen, a full professor) who more or less fits this description. Is she leaving, or are they trying to expand their program?

All indications that I know of are that Elly's not leaving, so they must be trying to expand.

Yes, I think they are trying to expand. See http://english.clas.asu.edu/recenthiring

Does anyone know if they will be interviewing at MLA or LSA or neither?

I know nothing, but I have tentatively inferred neither. The letters of rec aren't due until Jan 4, and I'm assuming the committee will use these in deciding how to narrow the list of applicants further. The SLA/syntax position above appears to have made use of phone interviews. Anyone with actual knowledge may correct me.

Q: Has anyone heard anything? Have they already invited candidates for campus visits?

== Boston University == Deadline: 2-Nov-2009

Field(s): Morphology

Notes: Rejection email received 30-Nov-09

Invitation for LSA interview received Nov 30 2009.

Questions:

Just got rejection re: short list and was told they identified a set of finalists - Jan-15

Who are the finalists? > An educated guess would be that 2 of the candidates are the person they offered the 1-yr to last year who then turned it down, and the one that eventually got the 1-yr.

== Brown University == Deadline: 5-Jan-2010

Field(s): Phonetics/Phonology

Notes:

Questions: Has anyone received confirmation from them? (1-13)

A: I emailed a request for confirmation; otherwise I think they will contact you if something is missing from your app. (1/14)

There is a short list; I don't know who's on it. (1/26) Q: How do you know there is a short list, and were those people contacted?

A: The short list has to be approved before the candidates can be notified. No idea what the time frame for this process is. (01/27)

Q: Was there a 'long-list' at some point and was anyone contacted/interviewed or did they move directly from applications to campus visits? (x2)

== Brown University == Deadline: 15-Dec-2009

Field(s): Semantic/Pragmatic/Syntactic Language Processing (open rank)

Notes:

Questions: Has anyone heard anything yet? (1/15) - rejection received in response to an email inquiry. (1/25)

Nope, nothing at all yet. (1/21)

== Concordia University == Deadline: 1-Nov-2009

Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Notes:

Questions: I have not heard a word from them (as of 1/14) (x3). Has anyone?

Answer: Had a job talk there in December; a candidate has apparently been recommended for the position (but don't know who).

== Georgia Southern University == Deadline: 1-Oct-2009

Field(s): General Linguistics, Writing

Notes: They are just starting to look at applications now. Week of 11/9/09

Questions: Do you mind my asking how you know that they just started looking at applications?

A: Last year there were SCs that communicated openly through this page with the candidates. It might be that.

It looks like GA Southern may have already interviewed candidates by phone and may have even invited two for campus visits; look on the Rhet/Comp 2010 page: http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Rhetoric/Composition_2010#Institutions_F-J

Received an email today (Jan 25) saying the position would not be filled this year.

This is incredible! I applied for this position in 2007-2008 and they did the same thing: wrote back that they weren't gonna fill the position (after they had claimed that one of my letters was missing and so had my ref re-send, etc. etc. etc.). What a joke. Good thing I didn't waste time this time.

Got "search canceled" e-mail on 1/25 and 1/26, which probably means that both searches were canceled. (They had two similar tenure-track searches going this year.)

Georgia State University
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2009; applicant review begins Nov. 15, 2009 Field(s): Applied Linguistics / TESOL notes:

Phone interviews conducted around 1/15

== Johns Hopkins University == Deadline: 15-Oct-2009

Field(s): Psycholinguistics; Vision

Notes:

Questions: Has anyone heard anything yet? I haven't, as of 12/17 --&gt; me again--contacted on 12/18!

Colleague got LSA interview (dec-17ish)

Me too, and two others that I know of. (12/18)

Any word on campus visits? 1/16

--Had LSA interview; re: their timeline, was told that they had other phone interviews to conduct, and that nothing would happen re: campus interviews until 1st weeks of Feb at the earliest.

I had a phone interview on 1/22 (couldn't make it to the LSA). I assume that I was probably the last, so I was expecting something pretty soon ... (1/27)

Indiana University - Purdue University, Fort Wayne
Deadline: 16-Nov-2009

Field(s): Linguistics

Notes: Email acknowledgement of application 11/19 (x4)

Email request for interview in January at LSA or by webcam 12/2 (x2)

Questions: Only one person was requested for an interview?

Had LSA interview with SC by webcam 1/8, Received 'Dear John' e-mail from Dept Chair 1/13

They may have an internal candidate.

Had LSA interview in the flesh...17 Jan and no word... (x2)

Contacted about campus visit 1/26

Marshall University
Deadline: 30-Nov-2009

Field(s): Linguistics/ESL Writing

Notes: campus interview arranged, not for me though

Questions:

Penn State University
Deadline: 15-Nov-2009

Field(s): Linguistics

Notes: Email acknowledgment of application, 11/17. Request for additional information, 12/03 (x5). Interviews (which have not yet been scheduled) will be held at LSA.

Contacted about LSA interview (12/16, x5).

Rejection received (e-mail) 1/8

Informed at LSA interview that decisions would be made by first week in Feb. (1/11)

Did they say whether there would be a 2nd round of interviews? A: they did not say

Contacted about campus visit (1/14) (x2)

Rejection received (e-mail) 1/28

== Pomona College == Deadline: 16-Nov-2009

Field(s): Cognitive Science; Semantics; Syntax

Notes:

Had an LSA interview and was told at the interview that notification would be in 1 - 2 weeks. I haven't heard back yet. (1/23)

Questions:

Q: Has anyone received an application confirmation from them? (12/03).

A: Yes, mid November

A2: No application confirmation, but then an invitation for an LSA interview (12/4)

A3: Contacted about an LSA interview (12/1)

A4: Received a postcard about ethnicity. Anyone else get this?

A5: I received it too last week

Possibly 2 positions, shortlist of 4-5 candidates tentatively chosen.

I was told that notification about campus visits should be within a week or so (1/11)

What happened with this search? Were the shortlist candidates notified?

Campus visits scheduled, 4 candidates (1/25)

Anybody know who they are? (1/27) <-- the names of the finalist should not be announced on a public website, as it can be extremely damaging to them. <--What's the potential damage? Just wondering...<--- some people who apply for jobs are faculty at other institutions. They don't need this information public.

I'd bet that the two current visiting assistant professors are two of the short-listed ones. I.e., two current VAPs = two inside candidates for two positions. >> No, that's not the case.

== McGill University == Deadline: 15-Nov-2009

Field(s): General Linguistics and German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, or Russian and Slavic Studies

Notes:

Questions: They confirmed (over e-mail) that my app. was received, but I haven't heard about an interview -- any word on interviews? > No word yet. Anyone know when the decisions will be made? (x2)

Spoke to a friend in the department at the LSA meeting, not on the search committee, who said they hadn't heard anything yet.

Is it worth emailing the contact person and asking if the search is still on? I never know if that's bad form or not.

> I'm sure that such an email would not hurt your chances (though I would be surprised if the search were not on).

Rejection e-mail received. (01/27 x2; 01/27 Russian 1x) -- did you email them? No, I never emailed them. The rejection email arrived without prompting.

> What did the rejection say, was it directed to you or mass email? Did anyone recieve a positive letter?

I have not received anything yet (that is, no rejection, but also, no request for interview) x5.

The rejection e-mail said that I was no longer considered for the job. My application was for German/Linguistics.

Question: For those that are still alive, what language do you work on?

> German

> Russian

> Spanish

== Reed College == Deadline: 1-Dec-2009

Field(s): sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, historical linguistics, language contact, and the structure of an under-documented language or language family

Notes: Application acknowledged by email (12/2)

Has anyone heard anything about this search? Is it still on? (x3)

--I received an e-mail this week that they'd received my app materials; it seems to still be *on* (as of 12-Dec).

&gt; I called the office to find out if my application ever arrived and was told that the committee has the applications but that the committee chair is on vacation.

- App. ack. by email (12/17)

Are they going to be at LSA? Has anyone heard from them? I applied in October and still haven't even received an acknowledgment. (x2) &lt;-- you can ask for an acknowledment by email.

Sorry to deflate anyone who really wants this job, but it will probably go to an inside candidate who has been there for some time.

&gt; This is not likely, from what I have heard, to be an accurate characterization of the situation.

&gt; What is an accurate characterization of the situation?

Response: Big surprise! did anyone else even get an interview?

The job search is still on, it's an open search, and I haven't had a vacation in many months. We did not interview at the LSA, but we are hard at work on our short list and will be conducting phone or skype interviews with candidates shortly, followed by campus visits for the finalists. I apologize for the delay, and for any unresponsiveness or misinformation you may have received from us! -- Matt Pearson, Reed College.

>Dr. Pearson: Thank you for the update! Any news on Skype interviews? Has anyone heard yet? A: Nothing yet. Starting to lose hope. A: Don't stop ... believin'! -- another week gone with no word.

--I had heard "by the third week of January".... that's now!

--I just received an email telling me that I'm on the short list and that they'd like to schedule a phone interview next week. After the phone interviews are conducted, they'll select 3-4 finalists to visit Reed, do a formal interview, and give a job talk. (1/29) (x2)

> Was it directed to you or mass email? < not mass

==Queens College/CUNY == Deadline: open until filled; applicant review begins January 10, 2010

Field(s): Applied Linguistics / General Linguistics

Notes: Questions:

auto ack. received (1/7), (1/8), (1/10)

short-listed candidates notified (1/20) (x2) <--via e-mail? (yes)

any idea how many short listed? < - I was told seven (1/27), and that was a list of alternates as well

== Stanford University == Deadline: 2-Nov-2009

Field(s): Sociolinguistics or Syntax

Notes: receipt of application acknowledged (11/3)

Questions:

Does anyone know the status of this search?

Contacted about LSA interview, 12/14 (x3, syntax).

Contacted about LSA interview 12/14 (X4, socio)

Did LSA interview -- was promised notification about visit to campus in about two weeks.

Just received a letter stating that theypicked one junior candidate out of 80 applicants (1/13) (x4)

> so no campus interviews? who is the candidate?

> to be precise, my rejection email stated that they are only authorized to make a single junior appointment, not that they picked someone (I'm a syntactician).

> Sounds like I got the same rejection e-mail as that (line above). I'm a sociolinguist.

There are two socio candidates making campus visits (Kendall and Becker), and two syntacticians (Gribanova and Toosarvandani).

Stony Brook
Deadline: 8-Jan-2010

Field(s): Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

Notes: Application for this position is by snail-mail, so get applications in early, given the Christmas rush (or use a courier service)! &lt;-- Thanks, Captain Obvious! (x2)

Phone interview scheduled (1/19)

Questions: For which position; Language acquisition or sociolinguistics?

Answer: Socio position. Was told to expect to hear back about 10 days after interview (on 1/21).

Request for phone interview (1/24) for acquisition position. (x3)

Had a phone interview (for the Lang Acq position) yesterday. They told me they'd make a decision within 2 weeks. (1/27)

SUNY, New Paltz
Deadline: 1-Nov-2009

Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics; Semantics

Notes: Acknowledgment received by snail mail, 11/28

Questions:

Is this search still on? Has anyone heard anything?

Did anyone apply for this job?

I did and as of 01/02 I have not heard a word from them. (x6)

And still nothing, as of 01/15. (x3)

I heard someone on the search committee has passed away. Who knows how the search will be affected. I'm not holding my breath! Q: How do you know this? A: From someone going to the services. But thankfully we can stop speculating: I was contacted for a phone interview yesterday (1/20), so the search seems to be ongoing.

If we look on their website, we will find a list of adjuncts and lecturers who will probably get first consideration for this position. Oh, well!

If we really wanted to know, we could google the names of everyone in the linguistics program.... though that would be a bit morbid

University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Deadline: 12-Jan-2010 (by web-application)

Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics/ESL

Anthropological Lingusitics job:

Notes: (source was the named faculty contact) they would prefer someone to start in Fall 2010; see http://www.uakjobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=69169

Applied Linguistics/ESL job: Note: phone interview (12/11) (said they'd be bringing candidates out to campus in mid-Feb) Questions:

== University of Chicago == Deadline: 15-Nov-2009 Field(s): Experimental Linguistics (open rank) Notes: Hard copy of application acknowledged via e-mail 4-Nov (x2); 18-Nov (x1)

E-mail states that interviews will be at LSA-Baltimore and scheduled before 20-Dec. Questions:

Is there anyone else who submitted an application but has not received any acknowledgment at all?

Any news about interviews? I haven't heard back yet. (12/17) (x2) According to http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistics, contacted for LSA interview 12/8

Is it correct to assume, based on the above, that if you haven't been contacted by today (dec-20) it's a rejection? How were you told that interviews would be sched'ed before dec-20?

-- I think that's safe to assume. The form email that everyone probably got confirming receipt of application says that they will have scheduled LSA interviews by 12/20. &lt;-- thank you for that - i hadn't noticed the date in the original email.

Does anyone know (with a fair degree of certainty) whether anyone has actually been contacted about an interview (other than the one reported on the generic page above)? One would expect that, on this page, at least 1 person would have reported getting an interview, or knowing someone who has one.

-Yes, I know someone who has an LSA interview scheduled, as of a couple of weeks ago. (written 12/28)

Q: did anyone have an interview with them at LSA? (1/14)

- I had an interview at the LSA, but haven't heard anything yet (1/16). (x2)

- They have a short list and people on it were already contacted (1/19)

List of candidate talks on U of Chicago website (1/28): http://linguistics.uchicago.edu/newsevents/

University of Kentucky
Deadline: Open until filled (appointment begins August 2010) Field(s): Computational Linguistics, Computational Modeling of Linguistic Systems

Notes: application acknowledged by email, 28-Dec

LSA interview scheduled, 05/01

A short list will be formed around 25/01, then notifications will be sent out.

- anyone notified?

- Not yet (01/25) -any news? Nope (01/28), Nope (1/29 x 2)

University of Maryland
Deadline: 1-Dec-2009

Field(s): Computational psycholinguistics

Notes: application acknowledged by email, 1-Dec (x2)

campus interview invitation, 1/6

Shortlist announced to the UMD department, all campus visits planned.

Anyone care to share the contents of the short list for this and the next one?

University of Maryland
Deadline: 1-Dec-2009

Field(s): Neurolinguistics

Notes:

app acknowledged via email, 12/1

Interview request via email, 1/6

Shortlist announced to the UMD department, all campus visits planned.

== University of Massachusetts, Amherst == Deadline: 22-Jan-2010

Field(s): Psycholinguistics, Phonology

Notes: In conjunction with two additional searches in Psychology and CS.

Got snail mail letter confirming receipt of application, and ethnicity questionnaire, 1/15 (for the Linguistics job) (x2)

Questions: Does anyone have links to the searches in Psych and CS?

Psychology search: http://www.psych.umass.edu/about_us/employment_opportunities/cognitive_psychology/

CS search: http://web.linguist.umass.edu/~whisc/UMass-CS-NLP.pdf

Email acknowledging application received (1/21, Psych)

University of Missouri
Deadline: 2-Nov-2009

Field(s): Phonology

Notes: request for further information, 2-Dec (x3)

LSA interview scheduled 12/23 (x4)

10 LSA interviews + 3 phone interviews this week (01/11), notifications forthcoming within a week.

Contacted re: campus visit 1/14 (x2).

== University of Oregon == Deadline: 1-Dec-2009

Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Notes: LSA interview scheduled 12/15 (x3)

Questions:

Did the people interviewing at LSA find out anything else? Has anyone heard anything post-LSA? < I was told not to expect to hear from them until February about a short-list, as they were conducting additional phone interviews.

Phone interview scheduled (1/21)

Does anyone think it is weird that the deadline was Dec 1 -- but then they took more applications for interviews at LSA -- and now they are conducting additional phone interviews? Are they having a hard time finding just the right candidate?

== University of Utah - Salt Lake City == Deadline: 24-Nov-2009 Field(s): Phonology

Notes:

Questions: Does anyone know what's up with this job? They're also advertising a 1-semester temp job for this spring; same details but an April 1-2010 deadline.

For tenure-track job, request for LSA interview 12/14 (x3).

Notified of on-campus interview 1/10 (x2)

is the interview for the tenure track or temporary position? --&gt; The temporary position is already filled.

University of Texas at Arlington
Deadline: 30-November-2009

Field(s): Language Documentation and Syntax

Notes: receipt acknowledged (12/4)

Questions:

Has anyone heard from them about LSA interviews yet? (12/19) (x2)

Yes, they offered to interview at the LSA (12/22) (x2)

Notification about campus visits should be within a week (1/11)

Invited to visit on campus in the next few weeks (1/15)

Shortlist has been contacted and three campus visits are scheduled.

Who is on the shortlist?

University of Texas at Arlington
Deadline: 30-November-2009

Field(s): Second Language Acquisition

Notes: offered an LSA interview (12/22)

Questions:

Shortlist has been contacted and three campus visits are scheduled.

Question: Who are the finalists? (x2) One from Michigan State

Any more from MSU?

== University of Texas at Brownsville == Deadline: 1-Dec-2009

Field(s): English Linguistics

Notes: Acknowledgement of application by snail mail (postcard) 12/21

Questions: I heard they have been trying to fill this position for the past 3 years. What's the problem?

Has anyone heard anything at all about this position? (1/12) Nothing yet (1/13)

Received e-mail request for phone interview from Search Chair 1/15

Had 25 minute phone interview with SC and 3 other faculty members 1/20

Received e-mail request from Dept Chair for campus visit in early Feb 1/22

Anyone know who the finalists are?

Campus visit scheduled.

== University of Toronto Mississauga == Deadline: 23-Oct-2009

Field(s): Theoretical Linguistics

Notes: Receipt acknowledged 10/23

Questions: Any word about interviews? I have not heard anything yet (as of 12/17) (x4)

Still nothing as of 1/15. (x3)

I was informed that they were awaiting authorization from the university before forming a short-list. They did not conduct interviews at the LSA.

Rejection email received (1/29)

01/19/2010

They have a short list:

Marc Richards

Michael Barrie

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour

University of Washington
Deadline: 6-Nov-2009

Field(s): Applied Linguistics

Notes: Email acknowledgment of application (11/10)

Email acknowledgement (11/13)

rejection emailed 10/29, 11/17, 12/16 (x2), 1/8 Request for full dossier: 11/20

Questions:

University of Washington
Deadline: 20-Nov-2009

Field(s): Computational linguistics

Notes:

University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
Deadline: 13-Nov-2009

Field(s): Linguistics

Notes: Application complete and Equal Employment Opportunity Request received by snail mail (Letter dated 11/17) (x6)

Phone and email request for interview December 27-29 at MLA (12/8) (x4).

Questions: Has anyone received the letter that the chair had promised? When will the names of the finalists be made public?

- I received the promised letter on 12/21; 12/22; 12/22

Who were the finalists?

At MLA interview, the committee stated that they will determine finalists (for campus interviews) by the 3rd week in January. (1/04)

Q: Any news regarding campus visits? (1/25) Q2: At my MLA interview, I thought they said they would contact finalists in the 3rd or 4rth week in January. (1/28)

Campus visit was scheduled on 1/15 Q: Anyone get a rejection letter or e-mail yet? (1/29)