Talk:Renaissance 2011

Applicant Count:
Please count yourself according to which genre you primarily work in. Make sure to update the total:

Drama: 16

Poetry: 3

Prose: 1

More Than One Genre: 22

Total: 42

Demographics:
ABD (early): 1 (a moment of anonymous honesty)

ABD (will finish this academic year): 13

Ph.D. in hand (one-year, VAP, Lecturer, Contract, post-doc): 20

Ph.D. in hand (unable to find academic employment at the moment): 1

Postdoc: 1

Assistant Professor: 6

Associate Professor: 1

Full Professor:

Lurker: 3

Total: 42

Discussion/Venting:
Wow, there are a lot of jobs I'm not even close to qualified for. Gee, so hard for me to choose between Harvard, Brown, Princeton, and being the director of the Folger. Yipes! Where are all the 4-4's that won't care too much if my publishing record is less than stellar because I've taught eleventy billion sections of comp? I sure hope some start trickling in!


 * A: There are a lot more of the 4/4 jobs in the spring job offerings. (Many of them generalist positions.) In the fall, the top jobs come out. And this is just the first round. There will be updates through October at least. There's still plenty of time for other jobs to come up. That said, I doubt there will be much more than 70 Renaissance jobs nationwide. For the last four years (as long as I've been on the market), there haven't been many more than that. Maybe 80 or so at the peak.
 * I am just hoping that some of the upper echelon jobs bleed off some of the big name school grads, leaving more of the mid-level jobs open for the rest of us (I would also be happy if there were a number of job hops that open more mid-level positions next year).

Am I alone in finding it frustrating when Universities get job info to the chronicle before the post it on their own hr site? Looks like University of Kansas is listing a Renaissance/EM job, but I can't get details since it isn't up on their site yet. Something to keep an eye out for though. : Open positions at KU


 * Thanks for the heads up! . . . hopefully the details will be in the JIL update on Friday, at least. I agree the Chronicle-HR disconnect is irritating. Have seen that at a lot of different places so far this season.
 * Any news here? I don't have access to the JIL, but I assume Una would have added it if it was in this week's update.
 * Nothing yet, and it still isn't on the KU Jobs website. HR seems to be adding more assistant professor positions to it every few days, but *very* slowly. Here's hoping that they are just waiting on paperwork, not on more funding approval.
 * 9/27: Position finally posted on KU Jobs; added to main Renaissance page.

Just one more thing to be nervous about -- since this year is the first MLA conference in January, I wonder when people will start scheduling interviews. I might be out of town for the holidays if they call, so I hope they try to schedule things via email.
 * Thanks, by the way, Una74, for upkeeping the page and posting so assiduously. It is tremendously appreciated. (Every time I come to post one, I find it already here). Having talked to friends on some of the other field pages, it's fantastic to have such a friendly community here.
 * Hear, hear!
 * You're welcome! Una74 15:00, September 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe Una74 is employed by the Wikia folks? Regardless, you do a terrific job here, so I hope you're getting paid for it.

Wash U in St. Louis
Bit of strangeness on Wash U in St Louis' part. Email asking for addt'l electronic app had addresses for applicants without any BCC. I don't know what it's like for others, but for me it's a little weird to see some of the other applicants' names, never mind the issues of people who may be on the market more surreptitiously. Anyone else find this odd?

Yes! I feel sorry for the admin who made that mistake. He or she will get an earful from somebody.

Rejection Timeframe
Is there a customary timeline for schools sending out rejections? Do they usually send out a wave of rejections after dossier selections are complete -- to let applicants know they are no longer in the running -- or do they wait until right before MLA?

The question, I guess, is how to know if you haven't been selected for a dossier, given that most requests seem to be going out on something of a rolling basis?

A: It depends. Different search committees do different things. Some schools do send out rejections after dossier requests (to those who didn't get them), some do after MLA (for those with no requests and those who were not in the top tier after interviews) and some (perhaps most?) don't send rejections until they have made a hire (so not until the Spring). The logic for sending no rejections until the hire (as I understand it) is that it is always possible that a committee may need to go back into the pool if the top candidates turn down offers or turn out not to be viable for some reason. Then there are some schools that never send rejections at all. Sorry not to be able to offer some more universal rule about this; virtually everything about the academic job market is various, you will find.

Schools that Have Scheduled Interviews

 * Adelphi University (MLA interview requested 12/14 by email)
 * Angelo State (interviews scheduled for week of 12/6)
 * Arizona State (phone interviews scheduled on 11/22)
 * Brown University (MLA scheduled around 12/13)
 * Canisius College (MLA interview scheduled on 12/11)
 * Central Michigan (phone interview completed on 11/12; campus interview on 12/2).
 * Gordon College (interview scheduled 12/14)
 * Harvard University (MLA interview scheduled for 1/7 by 12/9 email).
 * Kenyon College (MLA interview scheduled 12/17 by phone, per Medieval 2011)
 * Lawrence University (MLA interview scheduled 11/22, per Restoration/18th-Century 2011)
 * Loyola Maryland (MLA scheduled 12/12)
 * McDaniel College (MLA interview scheduled 12/2, per Medieval 2011)
 * Montclair State (phone interviews scheduled for 11/22, 12/6)
 * Ohio Weslyan (MLA, 12/16, per Medieval 2011)
 * Penn State Erie (MLA Interview scheduled on 12/1)
 * Princeton University (MLA interview scheduled 12/9)
 * Quinnipiac University (MLA,12/16)
 * Texas State San Marcos (MLA interview requested on 12/3)
 * Trinity International (phone interviews scheduled for 11/15, 12/10)
 * Tufts (campus interviews scheduled)
 * Union University (MLA, 12/11)
 * University of California, Berkeley (MLA interview scheduled, 12/17 email)
 * University of California, Merced (MLA interview scheduled on 12/8)
 * University of Central Florida (MLA, 12/17)
 * University of Hawai'i (MLA, 12/17)
 * University of Kansas (MLA interview scheduled on 12/9)
 * University of Nebraska-Lincoln (MLA interview scheduled on 12/7)
 * University of Puget Sound (12/15)
 * University of Washington (MLA interview scheduled, 12/10)
 * University of Western Sydney, Australia (campus interview scheduled, 11/22)
 * University of Wisconsin, Parkside (interview scheduled on 12/1)
 * University of Wisconsin, Madison (MLA interview scheduled 12/16)
 * US Naval Academy (12/17)
 * Washington University in St. Louis (MLA interview requested, 12/6 email)
 * West Chester University (16th & 17th c. Lit.) (phone interview scheduled, 12/13)
 * West Chester University (Digitial Media + Early Modern) (MLA interview scheduled 12/14)