Early American 2009

Early and 19th c. American
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Ball State (11/1)
 * email acknowledgment of materials
 * Request for further materials (11/11) 

Boston University
 * Received confirmation letter that app was complete 11/2
 * Request for further materials (11/12) (x2)

Bridgewater SC Due 12/1 Butler University Due 11/3
 * Request for more materials 11/5 (Submitted app 11/1)
 * Email from dept. 11/7 with no earlier request for additional materials ("Thanks, but no thanks"?)
 * Email request for additional material, last week of October.
 * Request for further materials (11/3) (x4)

Caltech (19th C Brit or Early Amer or Transatlantic)Deadline: Dec. 1,

Claremont Graduate University (10/6/08). 19th century American Literature and Cultural Studies.
 * Requested interviews at ASA or CGU campus already (10/14).<BR>
 * Any word yet on a short list for campus visits? (10/27)<BR>
 * 4 candidates on shortlist; got call 10/23<BR><BR>

College of Wooster (11/10/08) 19th century American literature<BR>
 * Received confirmation e-mail that application was complete(10/30)<BR>
 * Request for writing sample (11/19 x3)<BR><BR>

Edgewood College (Madison, WI) (11/15/2008) [ad] <BR>
 * Request for writing sample, STP, and dossier (11/17)<BR><BR>

Georgia State University (11/10/08) 19th century, with antebellum specialty<BR>
 * Wasn't this job posted last year? Did they not find a candidate or was funding pulled? (10/28) I believe they lost funding last year for this job. The search was canceled.<BR>
 * Rec'd e-mail confirmation that materials were received (11/6)<BR>
 * Request for more materials (11/18)<BR><BR>

Indiana University of PA (11/30/08) American Lit to 1920<BR><BR>

James Madison University (11/5/08) American Lit 1865 - 1950<BR>
 * email ack 11/11

Louisiana State University (11/14/08) Asst. Prof. 19th-Century Amer Lit and/or Brit. Romanticism <BR>
 * acknowledgment by email that application was received (11/14)<BR><BR>

Loyola University (Chicago) Asst Prof to 1865<BR>
 * Wasn't this job posted last year as well? A: Yes, it was. Offer was made and declined.<BR>
 * Received email ack (11/6)
 * Email ack (11/14)
 * Request for more materials (11/11) (11/14)(11/19)<BR><BR>

Maryville College (Tennessee) (12/1/08) Asst Prof., Colonial through 19th Century American Literature ad<BR>
 * acknowledgment by email that application was received <BR>

Notre Dame (Indiana) (10/31) Open rank, two positions, 19th and 20th c. American fiction.<BR>
 * Received letter via USPS that application was received (11/3)<BR>
 * Received request for more materials (11/14)(x2) <BR>

Pace University (11/15/08) Asst Prof, 19th Century


 * Got request for more materials - seemed like mass email (11/7)
 * Got the same request for more materials; definitely mass email.
 * Did not get the request -- maybe not all that mass. <BR>

Princeton University (10/31/08) Asst Prof, to 1865.<BR><BR>

San Francisco State U (11/12/08) 19th Century Asst Prof<BR>
 * acknowledgment of app by mail 11/10<BR><BR>

St. Michaels American (11/15/08) Lit/pre-20th century
 * email acknowledgment 11/14

SUNY New Paltz (11/01/08) late 19th-Century Amer Lit<BR><BR>

Texas Tech U (11/1/08) Asst Prof, Am lit to 1865<BR>
 * Is this the same job as listed last year? (10/28)  It's the same position number in the online application system. (10/28)<BR>
 * Request for more materials (11/11) <BR><BR>

Tulane U (New Orleans, LA) (10/15/2008) (early modern transatlantic) <BR>
 * Received request for dossier 10/22.<BR><BR>

University of California-Los Angeles (transatlantic studies before 1900) Deadline 11/3/08<BR><BR>

University of Memphis (11/03/08) Assistant Prof of American lit, beginnings to 1800. ad<BR><BR>

University of New Orleans (11/14/08) Americanist in pre-1860 literary and cultural studies <BR>
 * Request for more materials (11/13) <BR><BR>

University of North Texas (10/15/08) Early American Lit <BR>
 * Received letter via USPS that application was received (10/21)<BR>
 * Request for further materials (10/30)<BR><BR>

University of Northern Colorado (11/01/2008)Assistant Professor of 19th Century American, Lit of the West <BR><BR>

U Pacific (11/7) <BR>
 * Request for further materials (11/18 x2)<BR><BR>

University of South Dakota (11/3) Early American/Colonial Lit
 * USPS ack. 11/14

University of Wyoming (11/1/2008) 19th century American <BR>
 * Acknowledgment by mail that app was received(11/7)<BR>
 * Acknowledgment by USPS (11/8)<BR><BR>

Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC). Assistant Professor of English, Early American Literature. (11/7/2008). ad<BR>
 * Acknowledgment by mail (11/8) <BR>
 * Request for further materials (11/13)
 * E-mail request for letters of rec (11/17)