French 2010-2011

Position
Currently in TT job:2

PhD in hand, currently in non-TT job:16

PhD in hand, currently unemployed:6

VAP:6

Adjunct:

Other: 1

ABD, but looking to defend this year: 13

ABD in non-TT job: 2

Field
Francophone: 8

Medieval: 2

Renaissance: 4

17th: 2

18th: 4

19th: 10

20th/21st : 12

Other? Define: cinema 2; visual culture 1

SLA/Pedagogy (language and culture): 2

Linguistics and sociolinguistics: 1

Language Background
Native speaker: 6

Non-native speaker: 22

Heritage speaker: 3

Jobs
Appalachian State University (TT)
 * Acknowledgement received 11/02 (email) (x3)
 * References contacted 12/02
 * interview via Skype scheduled (12/3)

Boston College (Visiting, Spring 2011)

Brown University (Lecturer, 3 yr contract)

Central Michigan University (TT, Francophone Literature and Culture)

Colby College (Visiting, Contemporary French Studies)


 * Request for letters of recommendation (x2 11/16, 12/7 mail)

College of the Holy Cross (VAP, 17th/18th)


 * Acknowledgement received (snail mail)

College of William and Mary (TT, 19th and early 20th c. cultural studies)

College of Wooster (VAP, generalist)


 * Acknowledgement received (12/6, email)

Coventry University (UK): permanent job (no tenure system in the UK) at whatever level is appropriate to your career so far. Deadline 05-Oct-10.

Dartmouth College (Language Program Director)

Drew University (TT)


 * The ad reads "pending budget approval." Any idea on how likely it will be that the search won't get canceled?
 * Request for transcripts (12/01, email) (X10) - review of applications will begin "as soon as the December 3 deadline has passed" - they must have changed the deadline from 11/18 - yes, I just looked at the ADFL ad; they had extended the deadline. --> Though not on the new ad, it sounds like this might be a general request for everyone. -> It also seemed to me that this was a general request for everyone. --> Perhaps I'm trying to look for good news during this bleak job season, but I do know someone who applied and didn't get a request...
 * Request for transcripts (12/02, by email)
 * For those who got asked for transcripts, are you sending official or unofficial ones? In order that they're there by Friday morning, official mailed copies might be tough...
 * I ordered an official transcript to be sent to them, and emailed to let them know that it was coming by next week. I also said in the email that if they would like to have the transcript by Friday, I could fax an unofficial copy to them tomorrow. If I hear back on this, I'll post it here.
 * I asked if I could simply email unofficial grad transcripts and they said no problem.

Drew University (non-TT, Second Language Acquisition)


 * Search canceled.

East Stroudsburg University (TT)

Eckerd College (TT)

Elmhurst College ("professional track"??, perhaps will convert to TT)


 * Does anyone know what "professional track" means?

Emory University - Oxford College (TT)


 * Acknowledgement received 11/16 (letter)

Franklin & Marshall College (TT, Francophone Studies)

George Mason University (TT, 17th and 18th-century French studies)

Georgetown University (TT, 19th-century studies)


 * Acknowledgement received 11/03 (email) (x4)

Georgia Southern University (TT)

Georgia Tech (TT)


 * Acknowledgement received 12/02 (letter)

Georgia Southern University (TT, Modern French History)

Gettysburg College (TT, expertise in colonial/postcolonial studies an asset)


 * Acknowledgement received (letter)
 * Are people who are applying for both Gettysburg positions mailing letters of recommendation twice?

Gettysburg College (1 year, non-renewable, replacement position, post-1789)

Indiana University (TT, French film studies)

Indiana University (Visiting, 1 year)

Indiana University-Purdue University (TT, Applied Linguistics)

James Madison University (TT, generalist)


 * I called Nov. 29th and the administrative assistant told me that they had chosen the short list and were conducting campus interviews.

Lake Forest College (Assistant Professor of French and Spanish. Specialization open. Position renewable, with potential conversion to tenure-track after the first year)

Long Island University (TT, Ability to teach Spanish or Italian a plus)

McDaniel College (TT, generalist w/ specialization in Francophone Studies)


 * Does anyone know if they are doing phone interviews instead of going to MLA?


 * I think they have an inside candidate. --> Yes, as I was looking at the website to work on my application, I noted that of the 2 professors, one is a Francophone specialist whom the ad seems to describe very well. She's in a visiting position, so it all made sense... Wish they wouldn't have asked for so many materials since it's clear that they've already got the candidate that they want.
 * Being a visitor is not necessarily an advantage. Moreover, sometimes people who think they are inside candidates do not get the job. This whole process is stressful and miserable enough. I propose that us "outsiders" limit our speculations.
 * Conducted a campus interview the week of Thanksgiving.

Middlebury College (TT, 19th-century literature and cultural studies)


 * Acknowledgement received 11/17 (letter) (x5)

Ohio Wesleyan University (TT, Medieval/Renaissance specialist for a Humanities-Classics department)


 * Acknowledgement letter received 11/24

Old Dominion University (TT, open)


 * Acknowledgement letter received 12/6 (x2)
 * request for writing sample (12/6)

Pepperdine University (TT, active Christian commitment?)


 * Acknowledgement received (email)

Princeton University (TT, contemporary and/or Francophone)


 * Has anyone heard anything from them? Have they already scheduled MLA interviews? --> Nothing since the acknowledgment in mid-September.
 * I received a writing sample request about a month ago but have heard nothing since.
 * Requests for reference letters, 11/23.
 * Heard that someone got a call to schedule an interview at the MLA a few days ago, 11/30

Reed College (Visiting, 1 year, possibly renewable)


 * Acknowledgement received (email) (x2)

Saint Michael's College (TT, "supportive of the mission of this Catholic, residential, liberal arts college")

SUNY Cortland (TT, SLA/FL education)

Stanford University (TT, Francophone Studies)


 * Acknowledgement received 11/02 (email)

Susquehanna University (TT, specialization in Francophone Studies preferred)


 * Insider candidate? They are not going to MLA and have a visiting already.
 * Campus interviews scheduled

Union College (Visiting, 2 years, possibly renewable)

University of Connecticut (TT, assistant/associate, specialization in Francophone Studies)

University of Iowa (TT, Francophone)

University of Pittsburgh (TT, 17th/18th-century French Studies)

University of So. Georgia

University of St. Thomas (TT, Medieval and Renaissance France)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TT, French and Arabic)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (TT, Specialization open, with preference given to Francophone, 20th and 21st Century, Early Modern)


 * Is anyone having trouble with their online application system? (solved; the documents just took very long to upload - 11/6)
 * I used it without problems today. 11/4
 * I completed two applications on their site (this position, plus one in Global Studies) on 11/5 without any problems.
 * Rejection email (11/29)
 * Did they schedule campus interviews?
 * Anyone else w/ no rejection email nor interview invite? (12/1)
 * No rejection mail nor interview invite (12/1) (x9, including the person who posed the question) - wow (poster who got the rejection email here) - they must have hated me so much that they wanted to personally reject me. That sucks :-/
 * To poster who got the rejection e-mail, don't fret. I submitted my application at the last minute. Since they've already scheduled interviews, I'm clearly not a contender, but they just haven't had the chance to reject me yet. You were probably organized and submitted earlier, but just didn't correspond with what they are looking for. Hang in there! (x2 I, too, (sans rejection) submitted it the night before it was due!)
 * Also to poster who got the rejection email: it's also possible that yours was one of the applications they seriously considered, and that's why you got the email! No way to tell what it means or doesn't mean, I don't think. Best of luck to all!

University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point (TT, 20th century/ pedagogy)

University of Zurich (TT, Medieval)


 * I heard they have their eye on a Swiss-German candidate with fluent French currently finishing up at the Sorbonne.

Virginia Tech (TT, Specialization in 20th and 21st century French Studies)

Washington & Lee University (TT, asst, pre-Revolutionary literature and culture; film an asset)


 * Make sure you check to see if they got all of your materials; they are apparently not looking at the on-line applications at all.
 * Acknowledgment card received (11/19) x2

Yale University (Director of Language Program, renewable ) They have already picked their candadidates, received rejection letter on 11/9

Interviews Scheduled
(Schools with which interviews have been scheduled as well as means - MLA, phone, campus) -- Please could we keep this in chronological order? It's so much easier to follow what interviews have been scheduled. Thanks!

Appalachian State - Phone interview (12/03/10)

University of Tennessee, Knoxviille - MLA interview scheduled by email (11/28)

JMU - Phone interview scheduled

McDaniel - Phone interview scheduled (11/03/10, 11/04/10)

Susquehanna - Phone interview scheduled (11/05/10, 11/08/10)

George Mason - Phone interview scheduled (11/12/10)

Eckerd: Phone interview scheduled (11/16/10)

Pittsburgh - Phone interview scheduled (11/17/10)

Union College - MLA Interview scheduled by phone/ contacted by email (2yr)(11/18) x3

Princeton: MLA interview scheduled by email (11/23)

Dartmouth Skype interview scheduled by email (11/15/10) (x5)

U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee- phone interview (11/23/10) Campus interview will take place during the 1st week of Dec.

Brown University- Skype interview scheduled by email (11/24)

William and Mary-Skype interview scheduled by e-mail (12/1) (x4) --> wow, wasn't review supposed to begin yesterday acc to the ad? Yes, review was supposed to begin Nov. 30. Do these interviews replace MLA? Did anyone else get an email yet? They do have a VAP who seems to fit the ad...That makes one-quarter of the jobs I applied for like this (that I know of)! --> This is a bit ridiculous about interviews being scheduled already. Their own ad said that review would begin on 11/30. How is it possible to read through 150 or 200 apps in one day? And the way that the site was it only allowed us to put reference names and gave no indication whether they wanted just the names or letters, so it's possible that if you submitted your application recently your letter writers didn't even have the opportunity to upload their letters before the interviews were scheduled. Really crappy search.-- Are there really 150 to 200 applications per job you think? Not reassuring...

Lake Forest College - phone interview scheduled by email (12/6)

Campus Visits Scheduled

 * Eckerd College: 3 campus visits scheduled. Can you say when you were contacted for the campus visits?


 * James Madison University (11/10) --Is this really a campus visit that was scheduled? Isn't that quite early considering that they are accepting applications until 12/1 ? -- Yes, I called JMU and they said that they had closed the search. This was several weeks ago; Oct 27, I believe. --Wow. Thanks! -- Scheduled on 11/10 and will take place the first week of December.


 * Susquehanna U : Campus scheduled


 * Yale University (11/10) : Did they first conduct phone interviews? Idea on how many candidates were invited? Four candidates were invited to Yale.