Spanish 2009-2010

Good luck to everybody with their search!

 * Visitor Type:


 * ABD, not defending soon: 6
 * ABD, defending within 4-6 months: 11
 * ABD, I have a set date for my defense: 2
 * ABD, no defense at my U: 4
 * Ph.D. in hand: 12
 * Visiting Professor, Lecturer: 8
 * Assistant Professor: 9
 * Member of a Search Committee:
 * Just browsing: 2
 * Native speakers:
 * Heritage speakers: 1
 * non-native speakers: 3


 * Specialty:


 * Latin American: 17
 * Colonial:
 * Independence era: 1
 * Modern/Contemporary: 7
 * Southern Cone: 1
 * Caribbean: 1
 * Brazilian: 1
 * Peninsular:13
 * Medieval: 1
 * Siglo de Oro/Colonial: 6
 * XVIII-XIX:
 * XIX- XX: 9
 * US Hispanic:1
 * Linguistics: 3
 * Consider yourself a Generalist: 7
 * Consider yourself a Generalist: 7


 * How many applications have you sent out?


 * 1-10: 10
 * 10-20: 8
 * 21-30: 4
 * 31-40: 4
 * 41 and above: 3

Submitted Application Status:
(this seems entirely useless to me'; maybe once MLA interviews start kicking in we can delete this??? please do not erase anything, what is useless for you is useful for others / ditto! This is not useless information for some. Please do not erase. // Q: Has anyone recieve writing sample or other documents request so far beyond Vanderbilt and Indiana U? (23/11)// 

Albion College-letter with AA 09/11

Albright College - letter with AA form 10/1

Angelo State University - Ackn. e-mail 9/25

Augustana College - Ackn. e-mail 10/26

Bates College - Mail ackn. with AA form

Berry College - letter with AA form 10/07

Birmingham-Southern College - Ackn. e-mail 10/5, 10/27, 11/17

Brandeis University - Ackn. e-mail 10/22; Ackn. e-mail 11/9; Ackn. e-mail 11/24

Clemson U - Ack. letter and AA form 11/16

College of Charleston - Ackn. e-mail 11/16

Colorado College - Ackn. email 9/30, 10/30 (3)

Emory and Henry College - letter with AA form 10/14

Franklin College - letter with AA form 10/27, 10/28

Georgia State University - Ackn. email 11/16

Georgia Gwinnett College Q: any news?

Grinnell- Ackn. email 11/11 (2); Ackn. e-mail; candidates who will be interviewed at MLA will be notified in early December (11/19);

Hamilton College - Ackn. email 10/23, 11/10

Hastings College - letter with AA form 9/28

Illinois Wesleyan University - Ackn. email and confirming that the position has been transformed into a 2-year visiting 11/3 (X2)
 * new version of job add says 1-year

Indiana University - request of writing sample 11/13

Kennesaw State U - letter with AA form 10/7

King's College - Mail ackn. 11/5, letter with AA form 10/12

Middle Tennessee SU (MTSU) - Ackn.email 10/27

Missouri Southern State University - Ackn. e-mail 10/16

Monmouth College - Ackn. e-mail 11/2  (3)

Morningside College - Ackn. e-mail 11/5

Mount Royal University (Canada) - Ackn. e-mail 11/17

MMSU - Ackn. e-mail 11/11

Northern Kentucky U - letter with AA form 10/15

Portland State University - ackn. email and AA form 11/17 (2)

Penn State at Berks - Ackn. e-mail 10/16 (2)

Rice - Ackn. e-mail 11/02 (2)

Southern Methodist University - Ackn. e-mail 11/05

Southeast Missouri State U- letter 11/13

St. Ambrose U- email with AA 11/17

St. Bonaventure U - Ackn. e-mail 11/9

SUNY New Paltz - Mail ackn. with AA form 11/5 (2)

The College of Wooster - Ackn. e-mail 11/13

The University of British Columbia - Ackn. letter 11/17

Towson University - letter with AA form 10/23

U of British Columbia - Ackn. letter 11/23

U of Colorado Boulder - Ackn. e-mail 10/30

U of Delaware - Mail ackn. with AA form 10/29, 10/20

U of Evansville letter 11/4

U of Kansas - Ackn. e-mail 11/2; Ackn. e-mail 10/19, Ackn. e-mail 11/10; Ack. e-mail 11/23

U of Kentucky - Ackn. e-mail 10/27

U of Michigan Ann Arbor - Ackn. e-mail 10/20 (3)

U of Missouri at Columbia - Ackn. email w.AA form (11/13)

U of Oregon - Ackn. email will AA form 11/17

U of San Diego - Mail ackn. 11/5; Ackn. e-mail 11/13

U of Southern California - Ackn. email 11/10 (2)

U of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Q: any news?

Vanderbilt - email requesting more documents 11/11

Virginia Tech instructor - Ackn. e-mail 10/9

Warren Wilson College - Ackn. e-mail 11/9, AA 16/10

Washington College - Ackn. e-mail 10/3, 10/29

Williams College - letter with AA form 10/06, letter 11/3

WPI - Ackn. e-mail 10/12

Phone interviews scheduled:
[NOTE: Please add the school at the bottom of the list and put the date in parenthesis. Thanks.]

*Westminster College - phone interview scheduled for 12/4
 * Albright College - Phone Interview 11/5, Phone Interview 11/6;
 * Susquehanna University - Phone Interview 11/7, they will do campus interviews on first week of Dec., and make an offer before the MLA, Phone Interview11/8.
 * Hastings College - phone interview scheduled for 11/18 (11/16)
 * University of West Georgia- phone interview scheduled for 12/8 (2)  Q. When they sent the notice? by email or phone?

MLA interviews scheduled:
[NOTE: Please add the school at the bottom of the list and put the date in parenthesis. Thanks.]
 * Washington College (in Maryland), MLA int. scheduled on Nov. 23. Q. For which position? The tenure-track or the visiting?


 * College of Charleston - MLA Interview scheduled 12/28 (11/24) (I'm reading this on Nov. 24, 9:13 ET. That's a very early phone call...). The message came via e-mail, yesterday, the 24th. If you read it this morning, today's date is the 25th.

Campus Visits Scheduled:
[NOTE: Please add the school at the bottom of the list and put the date in parenthesis. Thanks.]


 * University of Western Ontario - Oct- Nov '09


 * Albright College - Nov'09
 * Susquehanna U. - Nov '09 (2)

Canceled Searches

 * Highpoint U
 * Virginia Tech Q. Which position? The tenure-track or the instructor?

A: I believe the tenure-track search was canceled and changed to an "Instructor" position instead (ugh).

Rejections:
[NOTE: Please add the school at the bottom of the list and put the date in parenthesis. Thanks.]


 * Benedictine College - e-mail, 11/3
 * Wofford College - letter 10/20

Q&A:
1. Can we try keeping this alphabetical...

A. Es mas facil ubicar la informacion si esta ordenada cronologicamente, que por orden alfabetico...

A. No sé por qué sería más fácil cronológicamente...parece que lo estamos haciendo por orden alfabético.

A. Look at other disciplines in past years. The ones that do it alphabetically AND have a lot of activity, it gets to be difficult to monitor different positions. When you apply to 30/40/50 places, it's easier to keep track of MLA and campus interviews by the date they get placed here.

A. The "Submitted applications" section should definitely be kept in alphabetical order. Anything else would be best kept in chronological order.

A. I applied for 100 positions last year and the chronological order didn't help me at all.

A. 100 positions? The help you need dependeth not on the order of the Wiki. :)

A. LOL. Just keep the alphabetical as usual. Chronological makes no sense.

A. As usual??? Makes no sense??? take a look at last year's wiki. It was chronological http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_2008-2009 as well as the year before http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/SpanishPositions

A. Change can be good. Let's embrace the changes.

A. SOOOOOOO... "Submitted Application Status" in alphabetical (this category will be compressed and/or disappear anyway as more significant news starts to arise), and everything else in chronological order? That sounds good to me, even though I was initially one of the above voices of support for alphabetical order.

A. Great! Gotta love some consensus!

A. Why some people is deleting comments? Censorship here? OH, PLEASE! Lets go by the chronological order.

Please, everyone calm down, and show some professionalism and respect.  Thank you! This is the Spanish page, after all, and not everyone is a native speaker of English, why make fun of them?)

A. 1) 100 positions? I applied to 10 last year, and still got a t-t position. This year I am part of a search committee in Spanish, and reading all materials we can easily discard those that "apply to everything" because they have no clue what this position is about; they did not spend time personalizing their dossiers because they were too busy applying to 100 positions. Get some help, as someone said. 2) Some people is talking the way our kids is learning (Bush dixit).

2. ¿Qué significa AA?

A. AA es la forma de "Affirmative Action."

A. Alternate meaning: Alcoholics Anonymous. You may need their help after a year on the job market...

A. Thanks. Yes, I recently learned about the high incidence of AA and NA in academia.....note to self....

3. What about including open positions for Spanish language/literature in European universities?

A. If you have some news on them, go ahead and put it up! There is nobody moderating this Wiki, just add it yourself.

A. Here's one: &nbsp http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAG219/college-lecturership-in-spanish/ &nbsp; And you may be able to find more in days to come at www.jobs.ac.uk.

4. Anyone know what happened to the "MLA interviews scheduled" information from last year's Wiki? Or have some record of it? Although I remember more or less, I would be interested to know when interviews really started to come along.

A. They started appearing right after thanksgiving, if I am not mistaken... That part got deleted after a while in last year's wiki. But check the year before last (someone already posted the link above) you'll see it's after thanksgiving that things start moving quickly.

A. Yes, after thanksgiving is the usual. Dont get so anxious... yet...

5.Q:  Any advise as to possible answers for the question&gt; How would you teach X or Y course? (first timer here!)

A: If you have already an interview, and know which classes they teach usually and might want you to teach, you should prepare a short class description, with readings and some activities that may help you to give concrete examples. If you want to go further you can always prepare a full syllabus, but that may be too much. Hope it helps.