French and Francophone Studies 2012-2013

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Position
Currently in TT job: 2

PhD in hand, currently in non-TT job:: 5 (VAP); 4 (Lecturer); 1 (Adjunct)

PhD in hand, currently unemployed: 3

Postdoc: 1

ABD, but looking to defend this year: 7

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

Other:

Field
Francophone: 3

Medieval: 3

Renaissance: 5

17th: 3

18th: 4

19th: 5

20th/21st: 3

SLA/Pedagogy (language and culture):

Linguistics and sociolinguistics: 1

Other? (Define)

Language Background
Native speaker: 7

Non-native speaker: 12

Heritage speaker:

Bowdoin College (Assistant Professor, Specialty French Lit & Cult of the 19th-21st centuries)
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 * Already a visiting assistant professor at Bowdoin who fits the description. Converting his position to TT Assistant Professor?

Bryn Mawr College (Language Lecturer)
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Christopher Newport University - TT Assistant Professor of French
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Citadel (TT, Middle Ages, 16th, 17th or 20th)
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Cornell University (Lecturer/Sr Lecturer)
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Emory University, (Advanced Assistant Professor or Beginning Associate Professor with tenure)
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Florida Institute of Technology (assistant professor - French and Italian)
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Georgetown University (TT Asst. Prof. - Francophone Studies - Concentration in the Maghreb)
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Harvard University (Preceptor in French)
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NOTES & QUERIES: === Illinois State University (Assistant Professor, 19th, 20th & 21st French Literature & Culture) === Request for more materials:

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=== Johns Hopkins University (Open Rank, 20th & 21st Century French Literature Specialist) === Request for more materials:

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 * Weird. Listing's been posted on HERC in August 2012, but the submission date for materials hasn't been updated (still 10/15/2011) - same story on JHU HR website.


 * I asked a graduate student attenging JHU to confirm that the position has been filled. According to her, the hire from last year has reported for duty. So, unless he is there in some strange visiting capacity, it sounds like this posting is an error. I would definitely send an email to the department before putting any time/hope into this one!

Loyola University Maryland (TT Asst. Prof. French/Arabic)
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 * Also posted at Arabic 2012-2013

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (TT Asst. Prof. of French, Contemporary)
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McDaniel College - (Asst. Prof. of French, Specialization open, with strong preference for Francophone studies)
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McGill University - Asst. Prof. of French/ professeur adjoint (« essai et prose d'idées »)
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Middlebury College - (Asst. Prof. of French, 17th- and/or 18th-century Literature and Cultural Studies)
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 * This appears identical to a posting from 2009 (some of us have been doing this for a while...) - any thoughts on why this might be so?


 * The person hired in 2009 is no longer at Middlebury.


 * As a finalist for the job in 2009, I have a note: Middlebury is in a town of 8,000 (including students) that is about 2hrs 45mins from a big city (Montréal) and 1 hour from a big college town (Burlington-also the airport). I think that if you have family in the area or are able to bring your entire family to Middlebury, you have a good chance of making a life for yourself at an institution with incredible students. But, there is otherwise a great risk of isolation. My guess about the difficulty of keeping people in this deparment is, therefore, NOT (as rumors will state) because the department is somehow in bad shape or filled with contentious people (on the contrary, they all seemed lovely to me), but more likely because it's a hard place to settle down if you are young, single, or trying to balance a two body problem.

New York University - Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature
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Princeton University - (TT Asst. French Renaissance)
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===Stony Brook University (TT, Francophonie, littérature-monde, bilingual cultural processes, and nineteenth-century French/Quebecois literature)=== Request for more materials:

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=== University of Alabama Birmingham - Carter Endowed Professor of French & Proust Studies (Open Rank) ===

Applications must be received by Nov. 20, 2012.

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University of California, Berkeley (Assistant Professor, 20th and/or 21st century French literary and cultural studies)
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NOTES & QUERIES: === University of California, Santa Cruz (Assistant or Associate Professor, French Applied Linguistics) ===

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University of Colorado, Boulder - TT Asst. Professor, 19th c. French Lit., Culture & Society
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===University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Assistant/Associate Professor of French - Francophone Studies=== Request for more materials:

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Associate/Assistant Professor of French - 19th-Century Studies
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University of Melbourne - A.R.CHISHOLM CHAIR IN FRENCH
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NOTES & QUERIES: ===University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Assistant Professor (Francophone studies, with a specialization in the Maghreb or the Francophone Mediterranean) ===

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NOTES & QUERIES: ===University of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor (Early Modern/Renaissance France, interest in transmaritime literature welcome) ===

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NOTES & QUERIES: ===University of Toronto, Assistant Professor TT (nineteenth-century literature and culture) ===

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NOTES & QUERIES: ===University of Toronto Mississauga - TT Asst. Professor, Teaching & Learning French=== Request for more materials:

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===University of Vermont, Assistant Professor / Romance Languages (pre-nineteenth-century literature and/or culture) ===

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University of Wisconsin-La Crosse - (Assistant Professor of French)
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Virginia Military Institute (Assistant Professor of French)
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Wellesley College - Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship - French
Application deadline is Friday, November 2, 2012. Candidates will be interviewed at the MLA conference in January 2013 in Boston.

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