Romanticism, Victorian/19th 2010

Count
Romanticist:13

Victorianist: 16

19th-Century: 9

Total: 36

Demographics
ABD (early):

ABD (will finish this academic year): 6

Ph.D. in hand (one-year, VAP, Lecturer): 22

Assistant Professor: 4

Associate Professor:

Full Professor:

Lurker: 1

Romantic, Victorian/19th-Century Jobs
(please add jobs alphabetically and note Romantic, Victorian, or 19th-Century, if specified in the ad)

Arizona State University (Romanticism, Victorian as possible secondary interest 11/9) link

 * email acknowledgement EEO e-form (10/29)

Biola University (Victorian, 11/16)

 * email acknowledgment 11/2

Boston College (Victorian Literature and Culture, 10/19)

 * email acknowledgment (10/20), (10/27), (11/2)


 * postcard (11/2)

Boston University (Romanticism, 10/30)
Search canceled due to budgetary constraints:http://www.bu.edu/english/DeptJobListing.html Bummer

...and so it begins. Who's next?

Lehigh University (Victorian Literature and Culture, 10/19)

 * auto email ack (10/19)
 * email of rejection (10/19 x2)(10/29 x2) (11/2)(11/5 x8)
 * Request for dossier by email (10/22 x4) (10/29 x3) (11/2) (10/19) (11/5)
 * No rejection email, no dossier request...stuck in Limbo (11/2 x5)
 * Request for dossier by email (11/5)

Longwood University, Farmville VA (Victorian Lit, 11/1)

 * email ack and EEO forms (10/30) x2, (11/4) x3

Longwood University, Farmville VA (Romantic, 11/1)

 * email ack and EEO forms (10/29) x2

Miami University (OH) (Romantic poetry, 11/2)

 * Request for dossier and writing sample. (11/4) x 4

Misericordia University, PA (19th Century, 11/20)

 * Postcard ack and EEO (11/3)

Northern Kentucky University (19th-Century, preference for transatlantic or Victorian/Romantic poetry, 11/1)

 * email acknowledgment (10/29) x3

Rhodes College (British Literature 1730-1830)

 * Nicely written ack email from search chair and EEO forms. Classy. (11/2)

Queens College, CUNY (Victorian, 11/26)

 * reposted on CHE w/ deadline 11/26 (10/29) Same job, right? A: Yes, the deadline was a typo from when I posted it here yesterday.
 * In trying to reach the application website, I received a warning message stating web certificate contains invalid information. In order to get to the actual application, you need to override your computer's security settings. Has anyone else had this problem?
 * Please answer two questions: (1) Do we have to apply for Queens online? I'm following their MLA posting from October, which asked for materials to be mailed. (2) What is CHE? (I'm only familiar with the ADE/MLA job websites.)  Thanks!
 * CHE=Chronicle of Higher Education

University of Nebraska (19th Century, 11/1)
I'm just being paranoid because the UNL website kept crashing on me as I was applying. So ALL they are asking for at this point is our cover letter and CV right? They didn't ask for letters of reference or a writing sample....did they? Again, I had a lot of trouble with this website so I'm just double checking with "all y'all!"
 * As far as I know, you are absolutely correct -- they just want the CV and cover letter at this point. (ensuing discussion moved to "Discussion" below)

University of Notre Dame (Romanticism, particularly poetry, 10/30)
Notification letter explaining that application materials were received and are "being circulated to the committee." 11/2

University of Southern Indiana (Long 18th-Century or Rom./Vict., 10/1)

 * Email request for phone interview (10/20 x3)
 * Request to contact references (10/30)
 * Timeline: campus visits in November; will make offer in early December
 * Is this unusual, or somethng a lot of schools are doing? Making offers for 2010 before the MLA conference?  Doesn't the MLA have guidelines about this?

University of Tennessee (Romantic Literature and Culture, 11/1)

 * Email ack with complete info on the search and the committee's schedule. Nice touch. (11/2 x2)

University of Toronto-Mississauga (Victorian, 11/2)

 * email acknowledgment (10/27, 11/1)

Winona State University (18th-Century/Romanticism, 11/9)

 * The job ad defines 18th century as inclusive of Romanticism (1642-1832)

Winona State University (19th-Century, 11/9)

 * This job is for British and/or American

Discussion/Questions
(relocated discussion from U Nebraska post, above)
 * Tis the season to be paranoid.
 * I'm curious to see how this works out for them. Seems an odd process, doesn't it?
 * According to MLA guidelines, schools are not supposed to ask for all of the materials up front because it is expensive for candidates, and, really, it makes sorting through all the applications more difficult anyway. Search committees who ask up front for letters of recommendation (most of which they won't even read) are asking candidates using a dossier service to spend $6-8 per packet of letters.  Now add $10-30 in fees for official transcripts from (in my case, four) schools for search committees that request those up front, too.  That's $16-38 expense per school so far.  Then, multiply that cost by 30-70 job applications per year.  Search committees should be able to tell whether they want to interview you by what you say in your letter, what your CV shows that you've accomplished, and how well those facets match their departmental needs.
 * in this market, where is anyone finding 30 - 70 jobs to apply to a year? I must be doing something wrong. A: I work in literature and two interdisciplinary/theoretical areas, which widens the pool of jobs.
 * I, for one, do not send official transcripts when asked in the first round. That's ridiculous and expensive.  I also have nowhere near to 70 jobs to apply to this year, but maybe this Friday will be different... A: Same here for official transcripts.  They don't need official copies until they hire someone.