French and Francophone Studies 2011-2012

Position
Currently in TT job: 3

PhD in hand, currently in non-TT job: 7

PhD in hand, currently unemployed: 4

VAP: 3

Adjunct: 1

Other:

ABD, but looking to defend this year: 14

ABD in non-TT job:2

Field
Francophone: 10

Medieval: 4

Renaissance: 3

17th: 3

18th: 4

19th: 5

20th/21st: 6

SLA/Pedagogy (language and culture): 1

Linguistics and sociolinguistics: 1

Other? Define

Language Background
Native speaker:8

Non-native speaker: 17

Heritage speaker: 1

American University (DC) (TT, 20th and 21st century literature, cultural studies, or francophone studies)
{C Email confirming receipt of application 10/4, 10/20, 10/28, 11/09

Austin College (TX) (TT, open)
{C Email confirming receipt of application 10/25

Bowling Green State University (TT, Francophone )
email confirming receipt of application 11/02

Carnegie Mellon (TT, French and Francophone studies)
Email acknowledgment of receipt of application 10/28 (x2)

College of Wooster (TT, pre-20th century)
Email confirming receipt of application 11/11 (x5)

Dartmouth (TT, Francophone)
Email acknowledgement of receipt of application 10/21

Eckerd College (TT, Generalist)
email request for letters of recommendation (11/10) (x3)... Was there some sort of cut involved or did they invite everyone who applied to submit letters?

- How can we know? A: If someone submitted an application but didn't receive a request for letters.

What is the last year story? Is it that bad?

http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/French_2010-2011#Eckerd_College_.28TT.29 (kind of cryptic; people who applied there last year will tell you more I'm sure. Good luck!)

A friend of mine and I both applied and we both received request for letters - I think they invited everyone who applied to submit letters.

Indeed, I think this is true. I have received a request for letters as well.

Hobart and Smith Colleges (TT; Nineteenth-century, Medieval/Renaissance)
Email acknowledgment of receipt of application 11/2 (x3), 11/8 (x3)

Lewis and Clark College (TT; Contemporary France)
Email acknowledgment of receipt of application (10/20)

Luther College (Assistant Professor of French)
Email acknowledgement of receipt of application 10/28 11/04

Marlboro College (Assistant Prof, TT)
===Mills College (TT or tenured; pre-nineteenth-century literature focusing on a theoretical engagement with non-European cultures, particularly the Arab/Islamic world)===

Email request for writing sample and letters of recommendation 11/2 (x2)

Rutgers U Camden (TT; Francophone Studies or 18th/19th Centuries; media and the arts; hybrid identities; the history of colonization)
Email confirming receipt of application (10/28)

Tulane University (TT; 16/17, 20/21 French or Francophone studies)
Email confirming receipt of application 11/10 (x2)

UC Davis (TT; 19th c. Lit OR colonial AND/OR postcolonial)
Letters of recommedation requested directly from references on 10/21. /Q: Were they not automatically requested once the application was submitted? A: I am hesitant about the automatic issue. I submitted my application online on September 26 and immediately got an email from the secretary conforming receipt. On Oct 21, my three references (not me) were contacted by the same person requesting that they fill up a customized reference form. / A: Thank you for the explanation. Different poster: my references were contacted a week after I submitted my application (I'd put the interfolio unique addresses - and these were prompted and I had to confirm a pending delivery). I, too, thought the delay was perhaps a good sign since most of the online apps immediately request your references once you push submit. But no need to read into it too much... ;)

University of Maine at Farmington (TT; generalist)
Email confirming receipt of application 10/20 (x3)

Email stating that telephone interviews will take place in Dec. 11/9

University of Pittsburgh (TT; French/Francophone Studies)
Letter confirming receipt of application and stating that Skype interviews will take place in Dec. 11/7

University of South Carolina (TT; pre-19th French and Comp Lit)
Email confirming receipt of application 11/9

University of Southern Indiana
Phone interview scheduled (on Nov 20)

May I ask when you were notified about scheduling a phone interview?

University of Texas, Austin (TT; 20th/21st century)
Email confirming receipt of application 10/17

Williams College (TT; pre-19th)
===Williams College (Visiting Position in Language and Pedagogy; 3 years, non renewable) ===

Word on the Street
-For those of you who applied to Eckerd, you may want to refer to last year's wiki page. It sounds like some undesirable business went on and you may want to be aware of this if you are not already.

You should actually bring it up in the interview when it's your time to ask questions. Let's face it--no one wants to walk into that job anyway, so if everyone used the interview as a throwaway and asked the committee about last year's shenanigans, that would be GREAT!

here here! Those folks are TRIFFLIN!

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