Talk:Renaissance 2011

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

Drama: 11

Poetry: 3

Prose:

More Than One Genre: 12

Total: 26

Demographics:
ABD (early):

ABD (will finish this academic year): 9

Ph.D. in hand (one-year, VAP, Lecturer, Contract, post-doc): 12

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

Assistant Professor: 4

Associate Professor: 1

Full Professor: 1

Lurker: 2

Total: 29

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.

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.


 * 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)