Theory 2010

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Linka
ack: (11/17) (11/19)

Q: In what form (email, snail mail) did this come? I haven't received an acknowledgment from them as of today (11/18)

A: Snail mail. I submitted the app on Oct 26th. The postmark on the letter is 11/14.

Thanks. I just got it today by snail mail, actually.

Q: Anyone hear anything about when they will let people know? I see their other jobs (comp) they have set up MLA interviews. Thanks!

Q: I agree with the above poster--anyone hear anything? Are they still going through with the job? ANyone know when they said they would be hearing? Thanks! (12/5)

A: Request for MLA interview by email, 12/9

Macalester College (11/1)

 * Request for more materials: 11/23 (x6)
 * Request for MLA interview: 12/9 (by phone) (x4)


 * Q: can I ask whether this came by email or regular mail?
 * A: email.
 * Kind rejection, by email, 11.30 Very kind! Received 400 applications (x15)


 * Would be interested to know what kind of theory they're actually looking for.
 * A: Apparently not psychoanalytic, Foucauldian, and gender/sexuality...kicked me to the curb. Then again, this is an open-rank search, no? BTW, they hired an excellent 18th-century person last year who does psychoanalytic.
 * A: I received the rejection yesterday too, and work on race theory. I applied for a literature search there last year (American lit, I think?) that was canceled and was a lot less organized (received acknowledgement really late, though maybe it was because of the canceled search).
 * A: I work on post-structural theory and continental philosophical approaches to literature. Rejected as well. I would be interested to know if those who are advancing are Assistant or Associate Professors, given the open-rank call. A: postdoctoral fellow for me.
 * A: I got a request for more materials. I do contemporary fiction & critical theory (embodiment, identity & technology), literature and science/medicine, some disability studies. I'm a postdoc now. Don't know if that helps you. This stuff is all so random! (12/9 addition: I got an MLA interview too, if that is helpful. Also I pitched new media studies in my letter).
 * -- have almost the exact same interests as above, but I do nineteenth century fiction instead of contemporary. Also a postdoc.
 * A: Also a request for more, currently a VAP, work on postcolonial theory & aesthetic theory
 * Request for more, ABD, contemporary; historicist

Rhode Island College (1/8/2010) LINK

 * specialization in British literature of either Renaissance, 18th, 19th, 20th, or 21st c. AND literary theory (see also British Open page)

Rider University (NJ) Link

 * MLA interview request by phone (11/19 x2)
 * Did they ever ask for writing samples?
 * A: No, but took letters up front.