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Position
Tenured faculty:

Currently in TT job:

PhD in hand, currently in non-TT job: (VAP) 5 ; (Lecturer) 3 ; (Adjunct) 1; Instructor: 1.

PhD in hand, currently unemployed: 1

Postdoc: 3

ABD, but looking to defend this year: 8

ABD in non-TT job: (VAP) ; (Lecturer) 2 ; (Adjunct): 2

Other:

Field
Francophone: 8

Medieval: 4

Renaissance:

17th:5

18th:1

19th: 3

20th/21st: 11

SLA/Pedagogy (language and culture):

Linguistics and sociolinguistics: 1

Other? (Define):

Language Background
Native speaker: 7

Non-native speaker: 9

Heritage speaker:

Amherst College (MA) - TT Assistant Professor, 17th or 18th c. French Theater
Deadline: Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2015, and continue until position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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Armstrong State University (GA) - TT Asst. Professor - Comp. Lit. (spec. French) - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 7th, 2015. To apply, upload letter of application, curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts, and three confidential letters of recommendation (with at least two addressing teaching) at http://jobs.armstrong.edu/postings/3834

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled 11/18

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Australian National University (AUS) - Assistant / Associate Professor in French  - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Applications close 26 October 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):
 * When were interviews scheduled?

Rejection post-MLA: Rejection via email (11/15)

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Ball State University (IN) - TT Assistant Professor of French
Deadline: Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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Beloit College (WI) - TT Assistant or Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Deadline: Send materials, including letter of application, CV, and three letters of recommendation by November 30, 2015, to [mailto:wacsearch@beloit.edu wacsearch@beloit.edu]. Please put “French search” in the subject line.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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Bryn Mawr College (PA) - Lecturer in French (Non-TT, Continuing)
Deadline: Applications received by October 15, 2015 will receive full consideration.

Request for more materials:

Rejection: 12/01, email; 12/01, email; 12/01, email; 12/01, email

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * Any news?

College of Idaho (ID) - TT Assistant Professor of French - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2015. Send cover letter and CV to: [mailto:HR@collegeofidaho.edu HR@collegeofidaho.edu]

Request for more materials: materials requested (11/11) + 1

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled (11/18) + 1

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

College of Mount Saint Vincent (NY) - TT Assistant Professor of French
Deadline: Open until filled (posted 10/23/15)

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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DePaul University (IL) - TT Assistant Professor of French
Deadline: Applications must be completed on-line by December 20, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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Furman University (SC) - TT Asst. Professor - 17th- and/or 18th-c. French Literature and Culture - MLA INTERVIEWS SCHEDULED
Deadline: Letter of application and CV to be submitted to Interfolio by November 2, 2015.

Request for more materials: 11/23 +5

Rejection: email (12/02) +1 (not longlisted)

Preliminary interview (MLA): email 12/10 +1

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Question: were you contacted by email to upload additional documents? My Interfolio dossier has new uploading option for the Furman delivery, but I was never contacted directly. Any help would be appreciated!
 * I was contacted directly via email via Interfolio. Perhaps you could email them to ask?
 * I think they had to reopen the whole search (it says "open for applications") in order for selected candidates to add their confidential letters through Interfolio.My delivery turned to "incomplete" on the 23rd, but I did not get an email either.
 * Thanks for the responses. I wrote the department chair to ask for clarification; I'll update when he gets back to me.
 * I noticed the same thing today (no e-mail from Interfolio, but noticed that my application was marked "incomplete"). Do I have the right to feel special? Am I on the short(ened) list? Also, good luck to all of you. :)
 * For what it's worth, my application is marked "Longlist" and I got an email from them requesting more materials. Agreed, good luck to all of us!
 * I also received an email via Interfolio, and my application was marked "Longlist."


 * Thanks for all your responses. I got an email today: genre, "thanks, but no thanks." Good luck to the rest of you!

George Mason University (VA) - TT Assistant Professor of French / French Linguistics - CAMPUS INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: For full consideration, applicants must apply for position number F9041z at http://jobs.gmu.edu/. Review of applications will begin  August 14, 2015 September 30, and will continue until the position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview: Skype (email sent 10/18)

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit: invitation extended for campus visit

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * Question: Does it look like there is an inside candidate for this job?
 * Answer: No, as far as I can tell, they have no French Linguist currently on staff. Please correct me if I'm mistaken.


 * Job announcement on MLA now says review of applications will begin September 30.

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Modern Languages, Chair
Deadline: Until Filled

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

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Campus visit:

Offer made:

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Georgia Southern University (GA) - Assistant Professor of French
Deadline: Screening of applications begins January 4, 2016, and continues until the position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * From their ad: "Must be authorized to work in the United States for the duration of employment without assistance from the institution (Please be sure to address this qualification explicitly in your cover letter.)". I thought it was illegal to ask that question?
 * It's not at all: employment authorization status is not covered by anti-discrimination laws.

===Gettysburg College (PA) - TT Assistant Professor of French (20th- and 21st-Century Film and Media Studies) - MLA INTERVIEWS SCHEDULED ===

Deadline: To be assured of full consideration, all materials should be received by Monday, November 2. Preliminary interviews will take place at the January MLA meeting in Austin.

Request for more materials: materials requested (11/11)

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (MLA): MLA interview scheduled (11/18)

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Apply at: https://gettysburg.peopleadmin.com/postings/1488

Harvard University (MA) - Tenured or TT Professor in 20th and 21st c. French Literature and Culture - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Please submit your application through the ARIeS portal (http://academicpositions.harvard.edu) no later than November 1, 2015. ---> Deadline extended to Nov. 15.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled (18/11)

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * per the application website: "The deadline has been extended until November 15 though we will start reading dossiers as of November 1st."

Hope College (MI) - TT Asst. Professor - French Applied Linguistics - PRELIMINARY INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Applications are accepted online at http://www.hope.edu/employment/faculty. As part of the online application, candidates will need to upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, unofficial transcripts, and a personal statement of 1-2 pages in response to the mission of Hope College.Application materials will be accepted until November 2, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview: phone call requesting 2nd interview & letters of recommendation 11/5

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Loyola University Chicago (IL) - TT Asst. Professor - 19th-21st c. Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Deadline: Review of applications will begin 15 October 2015 and continue until the position is filled. Preference will be given to applications received before 1 December 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * They had the same search last year... Did not they hire someone already ???
 * it was for French (France). This year it's explicitly Francophone (non-France)

Pace University (NY) - TT Assistant Professor of French and Chinese
Deadline: applications received by December 31, 2015 are guaranteed full consideration.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (MLA):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Also posted at Chinese Language and Literature 2015-2016

Rutgers University - Camden (NJ) - Assistant Professor of French (17-18th c.)
Deadline: Application packets received by November 13, 2015, will be given full consideration. Applications should be submitted online through Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/32092

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (MLA):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * How are they asking for MLA interviews before the application deadline?? -They're not: they just mentionned in their ad they were going to the MLA.
 * I think your edits yesterday confused a lot of people; because of your edits, it may look like MLA and Skype interviews have been requested.

San Francisco State University (CA) - TT Assistant Professor, French
specialization in 18th century

Deadline: December 4, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * I got all excited about this position until I found the info (not mentioned on Interfolio but on their website) that it's for a 18iste (which I'm decidedly not). Bonne chance!
 * They have an inside candidate with these qualifications not listed on their website.
 * Really? So disapppointing

===Southern Connecticut State University - TT Assistant Professor of French=== Deadline: November 30th

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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St. Lawrence University (NY) - TT Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies and Italian
Deadline: Interested applicants must apply online at http://employment.stlawu.edu, please give close consideration to the “special instructions to applicant” section. Review of applications will begin December 1, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Also posted at Italian 2015-2016

Tufts University (MA) - TT Asst. Professor - French and Francophone Literature and Culture
Deadline: Review of applications will begin December 1, 2015

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * The search was cancelled last year.And the seem to insist a little more this year on the Francophone part.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock (AR) - TT Assistant Professor of French (19th or 20th c. Literature or Culture of the Francophone World)
Deadline:

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

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University of California, Irvine (UCI) - Tenured or TT Professor of French, pre-1800 and/or Modern French Thought
Deadline: Review of applications will begin December 4, 2015 and will continue until the position is filled (https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/apply/JPF03151)

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Also posted at Comparative 2016

University of Central Arkansas (AR) - TT Assistant Professor of French (20th and 21st c. Francophone Cultures) - MLA INTERVIEWS SCHEDULED
Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 1, 2015 and continue until the position is filled (per MLA JIL 09/11/15 - applications open 09/01/2015 at https://jobs.uca.edu/postings/2139)

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): phone interview scheduled (11/16)

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

University of Evansville (IN) - TT Assistant Professor of French
Deadline: Review of applications begins Nov. 20, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

===University of Hawai`i Manoa (HI) - TT Assistant Professor of French pre-Revolutionary Studies=== Deadline: application review begins December 01, 2015

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * More details: http://www.pers.hawaii.edu/wuh/Jobs/NAdvert/21976

===University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA) - TT Assistant Professor of Contemporary French Culture=== Deadline: Application dossiers should be complete by the priority deadline of November 18th, 2015, in order to ensure consideration by the search committee.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * Letters requested 11/17 (+3)


 * Did they contact you or your recommenders or was it a general message for all applicants? contacted the recommenders
 * I think the "Letters Requested" heading is a false alarm and that the letters were requested automatically by the application system. I received an email titled "References Requested" 4 hours after I submitted my online application.

===University of Massachusetts, Boston (MA) - TT Assistant Professor (Italian & French)=== Deadline: For full consideration, application materials should be submitted by December 1, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Also posted at Italian 2015-2016

===University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA) - TT Assistant or Associate Professor in African Francophone Studies===

Deadline: Review of applications will begin 11-30-2015 and continue until the position is filled

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * Q: Is this search still on? Disappeared from the MLA JIL website and includes unclear language in posting about the position possibly closing if a "sufficient number of applications" is received. Was still able to apply on the UMass website, though...

University of Miami (FL) - TT Asst. or Assoc. Professor of French (Modern - 1750-present)
Deadline: Preference will be given to candidates whose materials are received by December 7, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:Interfolio and MLA ad both say "Preference will be given to candidates whose materials are received by Decenber 7, 2015" but the position listing on their HR website states November 20, 2015. Submitting app anyway and crossing fingers.

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities (MN) - Director of French Language Instruction - ADDITIONAL MATERIALS REQUESTED
Deadline: Completed applications submitted by Dec. 1st, 2015 will receive priority consideration.

Request for more materials: 12/4

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year, beginning fall semester 2016. This is a potentially multi-year renewable position based on performance.

===University of New Hampshire (NH) - TT Assistant Professor in French Studies (Early Modern)=== Deadline: Review of applications will begin 15 December 2015. Initial interviews will be conducted via Skype in mid-January.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (Skype):

Rejection post-Skype:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

University of New Mexico (NM) - Associate or Full Professor of Global French Studies
Deadline: December 01, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

University of Rochester (NY) - TT Asst. Professor of French (17-18th c.) MLA INTERVIEWS
Deadline: December 01, 2015. However, Interfolio and the university's website says the deadline was Nov. 2, 2015?!

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (MLA):  Email received 10/12/2015

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Preliminary interviews at the MLA meeting in Austin.
 * Are you saying they have aready apprised you about the interview?
 * Did they contact Interfolio right away for letters to be uploaded?
 * Not in my case, no.

===University of South Florida (FL) - TT Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Culture (Film and New Media, Migratory Cultures) - PHONE INTERVIEW STAGE===

Deadline: review of applications will begin on Nov. 21, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Phone interview scheduled

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

===University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (TN) - Assistant Professor of French (post-1800) - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE=== Deadline:  October 21, 2015

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (Skype): Skype Interview Stage (11/12)

Rejection post-Skype:

Campus visit: ?

Offer made: ?

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===University of Virginia (VA) - Assistant/Associate Professor of French (Francophone Cultures of the Global South)=== Deadline: The deadline for submission is midnight (EST) on December 4, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Any inside candidates? It doesn't look like anyone they have would be up to snuff.
 * No inside candidate. The person who had the last iteration of this job was denied tenure.

Utah Valley University (UT) - Assistant Professor - French
Deadline: Job Close Date: 11/15/2015

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Apply at: https://www.uvu.jobs/postings/17456
 * Were your letters requested?

Vassar College (NY) - TT Asst. Professor of French - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Applications received by Nov. 1, 2015 will receive full consideration.

Request for more materials: writing sample and pedagogy materials [posted 11/27] x 3

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview x 3

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * - The posting is very specific so there is a possible inside candidate. One of their visiting professor seems to have exactly what they are looking for.
 * Their VAP is not a medievalist and has none of what they are looking for....AFAIK she's the only one there. It fits my research profile eerily well, though, so perhaps there is a research doppelganger out there...

===Villanova University (PA) - TT Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies===

Deadline: Application deadline is October 1, 2015. Apply at: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/8462

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:


 * Q: Inside candidate? This one looks like it does.

Wabash College (IN) - TT Asst. Professor of French - Generalist - MLA / SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Nov. 2 (review begins)

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): phone call received about interviews 12/04 x2

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Wake Forest University (NC) - TT Assistant Professor of French - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Nov. 1

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled (12/2/15)

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * email on Nov. 25 about projected timeline. I wish more committees were as thoughtful and kept candidates informed about what to expect and when! Good job, Wake Forest.

Weber State University (UT) - TT Assistant Professor of French- SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Screening of applicants will begin Nov. 2, 2016.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled 12/3

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Wesleyan University (CT) - TT Asst. Professor of French (16th-17th c.) - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: For full consideration, all materials must be received by October 9, 2015 midnight December 2, 2015 [EXTENDED]. Campus visits will take place in November.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:


 * Got this today (11/06): "We have now finished our initial evaluations of the dossiers submitted to us and I am sorry to report that we have decided not to pursue your candidacy for the position."
 * did you have a skype interview?
 * no interview :(

Preliminary interview: Skype, October 13

Rejection post-Skype:November 19

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Inside candidate? The current VAP at Wesleyan has quite an impressive CV. *sigh*
 * You never know. He might be applying for other jobs too.
 * Def inside candidate. The current VAP's profile fits the job description exactly!
 * Yes.
 * Definitely. His research interests were removed from the site, but the job description was written for him. (Early Modern French and European Literature, Thought, and Culture; Performance and Theater Studies in a Transhistorical Perspective; Queer and Gender Studies; Visual Studies; Critical Theory; Mobility Studies and Cross-Cultural Interactions)


 * Deadline just pushed back to december 2nd? That's weird, especially with an inside candidate.
 * It would be irresponsible not to speculate!
 * So here are some speculations - offered as such, without a shred of evidence: an administrator politely asked that this search conform to norms in the field in terms of dealines and interviewing schedule; a candidate who was particularly desired indicated a preference for other positions; or the applications received were too weak to provide two plausible candidates for on-campus interviews.  Of course, there is a better-than-even cahnce that none of these are correct, but the re-posting does seem to imply an unexpected contretemps.  I would further speculate that for those who have applied, but have not heard back, your race has been run; but for those who were waiting on the sidelines, now would be the moment to throw your hat in the ring.


 * Will there be another round of Skype interviews?
 * I think this is a fake search. Look how active Wesleyan is compared to all the other top universities/liberal arts colleges listed here. The other places are waiting, and rightly so, until term is over, when professors will have more time to consider applications. Wesleyan's activity is odd. And they do likely have an inside candidate. Who will likely apply to the post at Amherst (because who wouldn't). It's possible W has pushed back their deadline because they have to wait and see if their internal is going to leave them for pastures new...
 * They won't know if their internal candidate (or anyone else) will take another offer until other schools start making offers around Feb./March. No department in their right mind would delay an entire search waiting for their preferred candidate to get other offers. If anything, departments who know they may be competing with other schools for top TT candidates (internal or otherwise) are going to do everything in their power to make the offer first. The whole early deadlines, early interviews plan may well have been intended to make an offer long before Amherst to make sure they get who they want. One of the ideas behind having interviews at MLA and announcing jobs all at once on the print MLA list back in the day was to regulate the hiring season to stop schools from sniping candidates by holding their searches so much earlier than everyone else that their top candidate would be left with no choice but to take their offer. Now with the prevalence of Skype interviews and ways to advertise jobs early, some places are going back to this strategy. What probably happened here is that between the early deadline, the relatively narrow field description and rumors of a strong internal candidate, they just didn't get enough applications the first time around to please HR and/or enough strong ones that match the description to produce a slate of viable, hireable back-up candidates to invite to campus.

Yale University (CT) - TT Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature and Culture (focus on Maghreb/Beur/ Immigration Studies)
Deadline: Review of applications will begin Friday, November 13, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Boston University (MA) - Lecturer of French - SEARCH CANCELLED
Deadline: Please submit via https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6551 ... The application deadline is December 15, 2015.

NOTES & QUERIES:

Brigham Young University (UT) - Associate/Assistant Professor or Visiting Professor of French
Deadline:

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Cornell University (NY) - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in French Language
Deadline: The deadline for applications is December 1, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Davidson College - 2 yr VAP French and Francophone
Deadline: Applications must be received by November 23, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Georgetown University (DC) - Assistant Teaching Professor of French (3 yr. term - renewable)
Deadline:  November 20, 2015.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

Lycoming College (PA) - Three-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of French - CAMPUS VISIT STAGE
Deadline: open until filled (posted in 10/30/15 MLA JIL)

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): PHONE INTERVIEWS DONE

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit: CAMPUS VISIT SCHEDULED

Offer made:

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===New York University - VAP (2 yr. appt.) - Early Modern French Lit. - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE=== Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 12, 2015 and remain open until the position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): skype, dec 9. +2

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:
 * Did anyone else have problems with their online application? Mine said my account didn't exist.

University of Colorado, Boulder (CO) - Instructor or Senior Instructor of French - Director of French Language Program (3 yr. Appt. - Renewable)
Deadline: Review of applications will begin on December 7, 2015 and will continue until the position is filled.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

University of Louisville (KY) - Term Instructor of French (1 yr. renewable) - SKYPE INTERVIEW STAGE
Deadline: Applications completed by November 16th, 2015 will receive full consideration.

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone): Skype interview scheduled (12/2/15) +2
 * when were you notified?

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made:

NOTES & QUERIES:

===University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN) - Assistant Professor (Three Semesters - Jan. 16 to May 17; 19th century French and Francophone Literature) - OFFER MADE=== Deadline: Completed applications submitted by October 30th, 2015 will receive priority consideration. Deadline extended in 10/9/15 MLA JIL: "Completed applications submitted by November 15th, 2015 will receive priority consideration."

Request for more materials:

Rejection:

Preliminary interview (please specify: Skype, MLA, phone):

Rejection post-MLA:

Campus visit:

Offer made: OFFER MADE 12/3

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Word on the Street

 * Why Saint Mary's College of Maryland is not listed here? I know they have a VP with an exact matching profile, is it a fake search? It looks like it!!!!


 * For Armstrong U, did they schedule the interviews via skype or it is just a clarification and if so how do you know? Also, the U of MA Amherst, did they sent e-mails requesting letters to candidates or to recommenders? Thank you.
 * Answer re Armstrong: They telephoned to set up a Skype interview the first full week of December.

Email from careers services saying they started reviewing application and are requesting letters. Link takes to the application form where you click "send" to the references previously entered during application process.
 * I haven't heard from any institution I applied to (French and Arabic), and the vaste majority states that the application review will start on November 2nd, does it takes that long? I remember in my first year in the job market, I got my first response from Saint Olaf late October, was it an exception, or should I lose hope at this point (this is my third year in the job market and I am really worried :
 * Depending on when you started applying, it may be a bit early.
 * 20 jobs on the MLA JIL? Just 20??!??!???
 * It's still early, too early for despair!
 * They will post more jobs in the months November - January, but it still looks grimm. Come on, French departments, you can do better!
 * Is it just me, or are there not that many job postings this year? Is it still early?


 * Good read about internal candidates: http://feruleandfescue.blogspot.com.es/2013/08/job-market-conspiracy-theories.html    (And how fake searches are really rare. So let's stop being paranoïd.)
 * With all due respect to the previous poster, I do not believe it is paranoia afflicting job hunters. I have gone through interviews for "fake searches" only to be rejected and exhausted after the process and to discover that the department had, indeed, hired the inside candidate. In fact, this has happened every time I've been invited to a campus interview for a job with an inside candidate. So I think rather than labeling people as "paranoid" we should try to support each other and call a spade a spade.  Perhaps they are not "fake" searches but rather searches with an indiscriminately low probability for success. +3


 * Here's a new Vitae article on fake searches: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/1158-academic-job-hunts-from-hell-the-fake-search
 * I am sorry you had such a bad experience. I want to have more faith in academia since I am about to spend the rest of my life working in it.  There are fake searches, but they are not the vast majority, and my point was more than it is a waste of time to try to figure out if the inside candidate is a favorite or not (even is (s)he is, maybe (s)he will get a better offer elsewhere). And just like the article posted above (vitae) says, there might be another candidate from another campus who is a favorite as well, which would be hard to know. Therefore pretty much any job you will apply for might be one with a "low probability of success" like you said. You talk about supporting each other, well, that inside candidate is also on the job market so if they have already proven their worth, then good for them for getting the job (One of my friends was, and truly she is an awesome teacher and scholar, but for the record it was strongly is its favor from the start but never a 100% sure thing. She still had to work hard for the interview and the campus visit). I think the article from vitea makes some good points at the end as well, taking these are practice for example. I undertand how frustrating it can be if you have been through that multiple times though. For those of us back on the job market, we all had to deal with frustration and disappointment. Good luck to everyone new :)


 * Not many jobs. It also seems that only a few of the schools will go to the MLA -lots of Skype Interviews this year...


 * Dear French and Francophone friends, I hope that those of you who were in Paris yesterday are ok  It's a sad day for everyone, much gloomier than the day we find out that we didn't get the job we wanted.