Russian 2009-2010

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Уважаемые коллеги! Добро пожаловать! The 2009-10 hiring season has arrived. A few guidelines to keep things neat:
1. Please update the Wiki with new searches, canceled searches, notifications of interviews, campus interviews, and concluded searches/offers.

2. When adding new searches, please list the institution name in alphabetical order. If an institution is conducting more than one search in the field, list the university and the position name in parentheses beside it, creating two separate entries for updates.

3. When updating the status of searches, please give the means by which you learned of the news and also the date, i.e., Interview scheduled (phone), 12/15/09; Search cancelled (word of mouth), January, 2010; Rejection (mail), 3/17/10.

4. Add all updates underneath the name(s) of the institution(s).

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COULD WE TRY TO GET A SENSE OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE USING THIS WIKI?

15

Also, could we find out how many people are:

ABD: 7

Ph.D in hand: 4

20th Century Lit: 4

19th Century Lit: 4

Linguistics:1

Other area of specialization: 2

American University

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(11/19) Request for telephone interview

Amherst and Mt. Holyoke 

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Bard College

MLA interview scheduled (12/08)

Has anyone heard if they've scheduled campus interviews??


 * Rejection received (email 2/12) [x3 - they've been interviewing short list candidates for the past couple of weeks]
 * Offer made in March (grapevine)

Colgate University

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College of St. Scholastica

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Dickinson College

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 * (12/14) request to schedule AATSEEL interview received by email
 * (1/6) invitation for the campus interview
 * CONGRATS! How were you contacted? Phone? E-mail? [initially contacted by email; further arrangements made by phone on 1/8]
 * Three interviews scheduled for late January-February. The last interview should be taking place during the week of Feb 7.
 * (2/23) rejection received via email. -- Q: had you had a campus visit? -- A: no.

Franklin and Marshall College

Acknowledged receipt of application 11/2

Held interviews at the AAASS convention.

Q: Are we certain they held interviews at AAASS? They referenced potential AAASS interviews in their acknowledgment letter, but did anyone hear that such interviews were definitely held?

A: Yes.

Q: Was anyone who interviewed for F&M at AAASS invited for a campus interview? Or are they first doing both AAASS and AATSEEL interviews, as promised in their acknowledgment of materials letter?

AATSEEL interview invitation (12/16, by phone -- 9:30am)

Q: Congrats on the interview. Do you mind sharing the approximate time they called you today? Trying to figure out if it's still possible to receive the call...
 * (12/17) Any sense of what happened to the first round of candidates that interviewed at AAASS? Were any invited for campus visits after AAASS?
 * (01/17) It has been a month since the last update. Has anyone yet heard from F&M regarding on-campus interviews? Other departments have started to send out invitations, and I was wondering if there is still a possibility of getting an offer. Thanks!
 * (1/21) Invite for on-campus interview (interviewed with them at AATSEEL)
 * Congratulations! Were you contacted by phone or email?
 * offer made in feb (grapevine)

Georgetown University

Acknowledged receipt of application 12/10

Initial interviews have been requested (Heard through the grapevine, 12/19.)

AATSEEL interviews were conducted. No on-campus requests yet. as of 1/13.

Has invited at least one candidate for campus visit with teaching demo (Heard through the grapevine, 1/14).

Rejection received via email (2/26)

Indiana University at Bloomington

(Has anyone heard anything from this department? Acknowledgement of application?)

1/5: Acknowledged receipt of application after I e-mailed to ask about it.

(12/29) AATSEEL interivew were conducted.

(1/19) Does anyone have informaiton on this search?

(1/21) Heard through the grapevine they already invited people for on-campus interviews.

Kenyon College

MLA interview scheduled (12/1 by phone)

Phone interview TBD (12/2 by phone)
 * Anybody know what the next stage is with this job? Are they doing campus visits? (1/8)
 * My initial phone interview is scheduled for 1/12 (and only just was scheduled on 1/10).
 * Search put on hold (letter 2/1) (x2)

Kenyon College Postdoctoral Fellowship
 * You're supposed to be able to carry over reference letters from the initial search. Has anybody done this successfully?
 * I just added nonfunctioning e-mail addresses (---@---.---) but listed the names of the references who originally submitted letters, and then mentioned this in the cover letter.
 * That was smart. Thanks!
 * Just applied and didn't have to enter any references, I guess they updated or changed something.

Lawrence University (Post-doc)
 * Acknowledged receipt of application (email 3/16)

New College of Florida


 * (12/23) Has anyone heard anything from the New College of Florida? They did have a late submission deadline, but it's getting down to the wire in terms of AATSEEL interview scheduling. Or perhaps they already called candidates?
 * 1/16 - Is this search still going on? Does anyone know anything about this?
 * 2/4 - I emailed them about a week ago to ask about the status of my candidacy. Have not heard anything back.
 * 3/11 - rejection received by email, stating that the position has been filled. This seems like it was a somewhat strange search - didn't hear from them until now, didn't hear of anyone getting conference interviews, etc. Does anyone happen to know what happened there?

Tulane University

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United States Military Academy (West Point)

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University of Chicago

Interview invitation (email 11/5)

Invitation (by email) for preliminary phone interview (12/02)

Campus interview scheduled [--&gt; to the last poster: when did you find out about the campus interview? for when is it scheduled?]

Rejection received (email 01/06)

Offer made in late January (I know from a colleague in the department)

University of Colorado, Boulder

Job search canceled (email 11/3)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Associate Director of REEEC)

Request for letters of rec and Skype interview (E-mail, 12/17)

University of Missouri 

AATSEEL interview scheduled (email 12/02 x3)

Q: What is the area of specialization of the people invited for interviews (e.g., language, literature, culture, film?) Just curious. Thanks!

A: 20th-century lit, but my teaching's fairly rounded. Looks like they want someone who can cover all the bases - which most places do these days.

Offer made in February (I know it from a colleague)

Rejection letter received (mail 3/5); ditto (3/12)

University of Pittsburgh

Acknowledged receipt of application. (email 11/6)

Invited to schedule interview at AAASS convention (email 11/6).

Has anyone heard if they've scheduled campus interviews??

University of Texas at Arlington

Acknowledged receipt of application (email 11/30)

Will contact selected applicants to schedule telephone interviews to take place during 1st or 2nd week of December

Q: Has anyone heard?

A: Telephone interviews took place already and 3 finalists have been selected for on-campus visits.

Offer has been made and accepted. (Heard through the grapevine.)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Request for recommendations (email 3/16)

Williams College

Acknowledged receipt of application (mail 12/04)


 * (12/17) Has anyone heard anything on this one? It's getting a little late for AATSEEL scheduling, so one wonders if they have already scheduled the interviews. If someone got an interview, please let the rest of us know!

12/20 Just got a call for an interview at AATSEEL
 * Congrats to the12/20 poster. Around what time did you get the call?

11:30 a.m. Eastern time [Was it a long conversation? Were you asked to schedule the interview during the phone call? Just trying to figure out if they might still call and it's just taking them a little time...]

Yep, they asked to schedule the interview during the phone call; it sounded like they had spots on the afternoon of Monday the 28 and morning of Tuesday the 29th; it also sounded like they were prepared to do phone interviews if you weren't going to be at AATSEEL. We talked about the nature of the interview (20 min get-to-know you sessions, since they "know a lot about you on paper"; discussion of teaching and research and questions about Williams. Much of the conversation was about logistics -- which hotel, room, etc.. I *was* asked if I had any questions (couldn't come up with any, aside from whether I should bring anything to the interview), and told to email before the interview if I came up with any.

Good luck! This hiring season has been torture; I hate the lack of information and the uncertainty and I'm sure you -- and others -- do too; therefore this page is a godsend, and I'm happy to share any info I can. Hope some of this helps!

Yale University
 * This is a suspiciously late submission date (12/19) - anybody have any insight into this?
 * AATSEEL interview invitation (email 12/17)
 * Rejection received (email 12/21)
 * Campus interview invitation (email)
 * 4 campus visits scheduled for Jan-Feb.
 * Anyone heard if they made an offer?
 * yes, they have (heard through the grapevine) 3/6