French and Francophone Studies 2012-2013

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Position
Currently in TT job: 2

PhD in hand, currently in non-TT job:: 7 (VAP); 4 (Lecturer); 1 (Adjunct)

PhD in hand, currently unemployed: 4

Postdoc: 2

ABD, but looking to defend this year: 9

ABD in non-TT job: (VAP); (Lecturer); (Adjunct) 1

Other:

Field
Francophone: 5

Medieval: 6

Renaissance: 6

17th: 3

18th: 4

19th: 6

20th/21st: 4

SLA/Pedagogy (language and culture):

Linguistics and sociolinguistics: 2

Other? (Define)

Language Background
Native speaker: 8

Non-native speaker: 17

Heritage speaker:

Bowdoin College (Assistant Professor, Specialty French Lit & Cult of the 19th-21st centuries)
Review of applications will begin on October 19th

Request for more materials: Letters of rec requested 10/22

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 * Already a visiting assistant professor at Bowdoin who fits the description. Converting his position to TT Assistant Professor?
 * Was told it was a legitimate outright search

Brown University (Open rank, 19th and 20th century French literature)
Upload all application materials to Brown’s Interfolio website by October 19th

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Bryn Mawr College (Language Lecturer)
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California State University, Fresno - Asst. Professor, French
Deadline: 11/15/2012

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Five professional references that must be different from people writing three letters of recommendation??

Christopher Newport University - TT Assistant Professor of French
Application Deadline: November 2, 2012

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Citadel (TT, Middle Ages, 16th, 17th or 20th)
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College of the Holy Cross, Eleanor Howard O'Leary Chair in Francophone Studies
Please submit a cover letter describing research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae, statement on teaching, academic transcripts, and three confidential letters of recommendation to https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/17675. Review of applications will begin on November 30, 2012 and will continue until the position has been filled. Preliminary interviews will be conducted at the MLA Annual Meeting in Boston in January 2013.

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Cornell University (Lecturer/Sr Lecturer)
Application Deadline: November 30, 2012

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Emory University, (Advanced Assistant Professor or Beginning Associate Professor with tenure)
Application Deadline: November 26, 2012.

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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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Haverford College (PA) - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in French Language and French and Francophone Culture
Where practical, materials may be submitted electronically via Interfolio (https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/1708). Review of applications will begin November 1, 2012.

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=== Illinois State University (Assistant Professor, 19th, 20th & 21st French Literature & Culture) ===

Postmark Deadline: Oct. 25

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=== Johns Hopkins University (Open Rank, 20th & 21st Century French Literature Specialist) - 2011 Deadline - POSITION FILLED ===

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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 attending 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!

Kansas State University, Assistant Professor (20th and/or Francophone)
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Loyola University Maryland (TT Asst. Prof. French/Arabic)
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 * Also posted at Arabic 2012-2013

Marquette University - (TT Asst. Prof., Generalist)
Application Deadline: November 9, 2012

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - (TT Asst. Prof. of French, Contemporary)
Application Deadline: November 9, 2012

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McDaniel College - (Asst. Prof. of French, Specialization open, with strong preference for Francophone studies)
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Rejection:

Preliminary interview (skype, MLA, phone): Nov. 5 (Skype) (x2), Nov 6 (skype)

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Has anyone noticed that McDaniel's app asks you to upload your own three letters of rec? This couldn't be correct, could it? Has anyone applied, and if so, how did you submit letters of rec? / A: the application goes through without the letters, that you can later send via Interfolio. Good luck!

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)
All application materials must be received by October 31st, 2012.

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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.

Missouri Southern State University - one-year Assistant Professor of French (Renewable)
Application deadline is December 14, 2012.

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New York University - Assistant Professor of Francophone Literature
Deadline: November 16, 2012

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Princeton University - (TT Asst. French Renaissance)
Applications received by November 30, 2012 will be given full consideration.

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Rice University (TX) - Lecturer in French Lang. & Culture (Full-Time, 2 Yr. Renewable Appt.)
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2012

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Rhodes College - Asst. Professor of French (3 Yr. Position), Medieval/Early Modern
Review of complete applications will begin November 26th

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St. Lawrence University (NY) - Asst. Professor, Francophone African literature
Review of applications will begin November 1, 2012

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===Stony Brook University (TT, Francophonie, littérature-monde, bilingual cultural processes, and nineteenth-century French/Quebecois literature)===

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This is a dead link. Any updates?

Southern Methodist University (Assistant Professor, long 19th century)
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This is a dead link. Any updates?

United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) - TT Assistant Professor of French
Application Deadline: December 1, 2012

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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)
Deadline: November 9, 2012

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=== University of California, Santa Cruz (Assistant or Associate Professor, French Applied Linguistics) ===

Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2012.

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University of Colorado, Boulder - TT Asst. Professor, 19th c. French Lit., Culture & Society
Consideration of applications will begin on Nov. 16, 2012

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===University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Assistant/Associate Professor of French - Francophone Studies===

To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be submitted by November 1, 2012

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Associate/Assistant Professor of French - 19th-Century Studies
To ensure full consideration, all required application materials must be submitted by November 1, 2012.

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University of Indianapolis - Advanced Assistant or Associate Professor of French
For full consideration applications must be received by December 1, 2013.

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University of Maine, Farmington - Assistant Professor
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University of Melbourne - A.R.CHISHOLM CHAIR IN FRENCH
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor (18th and/or 19th c. French studies)
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===University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Assistant Professor (Francophone studies, with a specialization in the Maghreb or the Francophone Mediterranean) ===

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

Candidates are encouraged to apply by November 12, 2012

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I heard that they specifically are looking to replace a retired 16th century person. "Early modern" seems vague here, but who knows.

University of Rhode Island - Assistant Professor of French with Specialization in French Film
Application Deadline: October 30, 2012

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University of South Carolina, Columbia, Assistant Professor TT (18th and/or 19th c. French Studies)
Review will begin on Nov. 15th and continue until filled.

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University of Southern Indiana, Assistant Professor TT (generalist)
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University of Southern Mississippi- TT Asst. Professor of French
To ensure full consideration, complete application materials should be submitted to the Southern Miss website at https://jobs.usm.edu (job posting # 000244) by January 1, 2013.

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

The closing date for receipt of applications is December 1, 2012.

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===University of Toronto Mississauga - TT Asst. Professor, Teaching & Learning French===

Closing date: November 1, 2012

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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)
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled.

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University of Wisconsin-Madison - TT Asst. Contemporary French or Francophone
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University of Wisconsin-Madison - TT Asst. French Medieval Literature and Culture
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by December 1, 2012.

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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - TT Assistant Professor of French
Initial review of applications will begin November 5, 2012.

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Virginia Military Institute (Assistant Professor of French)
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled.

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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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Yale University - Assistant Professor in Francophone Literature & Culture (focus on Maghreb and Beur lit and questions of immigration)
Deadline: Nov. 16, 2012

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Word on the Street
Is anyone using this site this year? I believe that everyone was so mean last year that no one is using this. The full list of jobs is not even here. / Everyone can update the list :)

There's probably not a whole lot going on at this point, as most of the deadlines have just passed or are coming up. I, for one, have been checking this site regularly, without adding anything. (11/05)

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