EnglishLiterature 2009-2010

English Literature Jobs for AY 2009-2010
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Post school names and deadlines. Add materials requests, interview requests, and campus visit requests as they happen. Add any other pertinent information that you might know about the status of a given search.

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Last year's job search page: English Literature Jobs for AY 2008-2009

How about creative writing? And English Education? English Ed has been lumped in with Children's Literature. Feel free to update and check in (11-12)

Subfields
Generalist and Open

Medieval

Early Modern/Renaissance

Restoration and 18th c. British

Romanticism and Victorian

Modern and Contemporary British

British Open

Early and 19th c. American

20th and 21st c. American

African American

Other Ethnic American

American Open

Anglophone and World Literature/Postcolonial

Canadian Literature

Creative Writing

Children's/YA Literature/ English Education (Updated 11-16)

American South

Critical Theory

Drama, Speech, Film & Media Studies

Irish Literature

Environmental Literature

Comparative Literature

Rhetoric/Composition

Queer/Women's/Gender Studies

This Year's Cancelled Jobs--The Economy Strikes
Bridgewater State (Massachusetts), British and Irish Modernism

Colorado State University, Anglophone and World Literature

East Tennessee State University, Modern British

Johns Hopkins, African American Lit.

Johns Hopkins, Comparative Lit
 * Q: what is the source of info that this job has been cancelled?  Email notice 11/11

Lehman College, CUNY, 19th century

Long Island University, Modern and Contemporary Poetry

Miami University, American modernism 1900-1950

Miami University, Romantic Poetry

Northern Arizona University, African American Lit.

Rider University, Literary Theory

Scripps College, Gender Studies

SUNY Stony Brook, African American Lit.

SUNY Stony Brook, Medieval

SUNY Stony Brook, Comparative Lit.

U of Alabama-Huntsville, Medieval

U of Miami, Late Med. Early Mod.

University of Puget Sound, Rhetoric

University of Richmond, African Literature

University of South Carolina, Rhetoric

University of Vermont, 19th century

University of Virginia, Postcolonial

Villanova University, 18th C. Novel

Western New England College, modernist literature and creative writing

Xavier, Early Modern

Comments and Questions
Anybody know why the JIL has been down since Thursday night, 11/6? (11/9/2008) Yes-- They were down for scheduled maintenance Thursday midnight to Sunday 5pm. Should be up now.

Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the search in British Romanticism at UC Boulder. (it's a mid-career to senior search) They said they were likely inviting candidates to campus in early November. Anyone heard anything further? (11/15/2008)

Q: I would like to add to this conversation:  I interviewed with a major East Coast Div I school last week over the phone (standard, TT, AP search) - They indicated that their next step would be to fly in candidates for the final interview. Is anyone else noticing this year's financial pressures weighing against U's using MLA? I suppose I don't really care (as long as I get an interview :)), but I am wondering how the economy is altering the nature and timing of this year's interview process. Has anyone noticed anything unusual about initial contacts, first interviews etc. this year? (11/16/2008)
 * A: I haven't noticed this myself, although it doesn't seem too surprising. I'm responding, though, for a different reason: Did the school indicate when the on-campus visits would be? This is important, b/c, ethically speaking, they shouldn't be speeding up the process too much. They should wait for MLA and allow you to make a fully informed decision. Last year, my partner went on an on-campus interview at a school that was using this accelerated process; he was offered the job and had to decide whether or not to take the job right before his convention (where he had several promising interviews set up). It was agonizing to make that choice. We later found out that there are regulations in place to prevent this sort of thing from happening; the school could have (and probably should have) been censured. Anyway, just one other thing to think about! (11/17)


 * A Yes, I have noticed this. Three weeks after the application deadline on one job, I received a request for an on-campus interview. I went for the interview during the first week of November (crazy time with the election), and the decision is expected before Thanksgiving. I noticed a trend toward bypassing MLA last year too, but this year it seems more pronounced.


 * A This might not always be the case, but with economic pressures being what they are, some departments want to get positions filled/contracts signed before the admin put a freeze or cancel that particular search.