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ONLINE JOB POSTINGS
The Chronicle of Higher Education. You have access to the Chronicle online via Hopkins.
Academic 360.com: a meta-collection of Internet resources on job announcements.
Higher EdJobs.com University Job Network
WEB RESOURCES
Get a job! Academic Job Search Page: Start here. A great page, maintained and up to date. Includes links to sites that post jobs, that post resumes, interview advice, and funding information.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation working to increase awareness of the value of humanities training and education to society at large, and in so doing, to expand career opportunities for PhDs both inside and outside the academy. Information on grants, fellowships, and getting a job.
Relevant articles from a variety of online resources.
The Academic Job Search from the University of Chicago.
Academic Job Search from the University of Minnesota.
Academic Cover Letters.
ADVICE
Academic Job Searching for Dummies
Landing an Academic Job
Academic Job Interview Advice, by Mary Corbin Sies, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
See also her: Questions One Should Be Prepared To Answer For Job Interviews
And her: Academic Job Application Checklist
BOOKS in the MSE LIBRARY
Although many have "English" as their domain, they apply to foreign language and literatures as well. Many of these books are published by the MLA.
Finding a Job
The MLA guide to the job search : a handbook for departments and for PhD's and PhD candidates in English and foreign languages. Eisenhower General Reference PB 11 .C37 1996
The Chicago guide to your academic career: a portable mentor for scholars from graduate school through tenure. Has a chapter on "Landing an academic job" Eisenhower Stacks LB1778.G63 2001
The academic job search handbook Eisenhower General Reference LB2331.72.H45 2001
Job search in academe : strategic rhetorics for faculty job candidates Eisenhower Stacks LB2331.72.F67 1999
Finding an academic job Eisenhower Stacks LB2331.72.S68 1998
A Career guide for PhD's and PhD candidates in English and foreign languages. The nuts and bolts of the process. New edition on order. Eisenhower General Reference PB 11 .C35 1985
Getting an academic job: strategies for success. From the interview to negotiating a salary. Eisenhower Stacks LB 2332.72 .K76 1997
The curriculum vitae handbook : using your CV to present and promote your academic career. Eisenhower General Reference LB 2331.72 .A58 1994
Chairing an academic department. Chapter on recruiting new faculty and the search process. See it from the standpoint of your potential employers. Eisenhower Stacks LB 2341 .G555 1995
Academia
The academic's handbook Eisenhower Stacks LB 1778.2 .A24 1995
The academic career handbook Eisenhower Stacks LB2331.74.G7 B53 1998
The questions of tenure Eisenhower Stacks LB2335.7.Q84 2002
Power, race, and gender in academe : strangers in the tower? Resource and teaching guide for young faculty as they enter the profession - women, gay and ethnic minorities. Eisenhower Stacks LC3727.P69 2000
The employment of English : theory, jobs, and the future of literary studies.
Intellectual and economic status of the profession of literary study; current employment conditions; professional tensions in a shrunken job market; function of literary study and interpretive theory in departments of language and literature. Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels PE68.U5 B48 1998
Convention survival techniques : practical strategies for getting the most out of your professional association's meetings. Eisenhower General Reference HD 6496.5 .F73 1997
Know the Field
Introduction to scholarship in modern languages and literatures. Basic introduction to theory, literary studies, disciplines and genres. Eisenhower Stacks (Compact Shelving) PD 35 .I67 1992
Redrawing the boundaries : the transformation of English and American literary studies. Eisenhower Stacks PO 21 .R43 1992 New edition on order.
The Future of doctoral studies in English. A little outdated, but still has useful information. Section on "The Transition from Graduate Student to Faculty Member." Libraries Service Center PN68.U5 F88 1989
An introduction to bibliographical and textual studies. What the study of the book as an object can contribute to literary studies and scholarly editing. Eisenhower Stacks Z1001.W58 1999
Hone your Skills
MLA publishes many guides to teaching literature. Search under titles in the Libraries Catalog [17] , "Approaches to teaching...". You will find Balzac, Baudelaire, Goethe, Kafka, Dante, Boccaccio, Cervantes, García Márquez, etc.
Teaching literature and other arts. Another MLA guide. Essays on courses that weave the visual arts and music into literature. Eisenhower Stacks NX280 .T42 1990
Teaching literature in a second language Eisenhower Stacks D-Level Blue Labels PN56.L27 P37 2000
Teaching contemporary theory to undergraduates. Another MLA guide. Eisenhower Stacks D-Level Blue Labels PN 86 .T43
Teaching literature and medicine. Another MLA guide. Eisenhower Stacks D-Level Blue Labels PN56.M38 T43 2000
Writing, teaching, and learning in the disciplines. Using writing in your classroom for effective learning. Eisenhower Stacks LB 1576 .W761 1992
Successful publishing in scholarly journals. The where's and how's of publishing. Don't forget the MLA Directory of Periodicals for details on specific journal submissions. Eisenhower Stacks Z 479 .T551 1994
Interrelations of literature. Focusing on literature, each essay takes on a different subject of interrelation: linguistics, philosophy, religion, myth, sociology, politics, science, etc. Eisenhower Stacks (Compact Shelving)
P2045.8 .I561 1982
Textual analysis : some readers reading. Examples of scholars' analysis, from Baudelaire to Cervantes, by way of Pertrach and Kleist. Eisenhower Stacks (Compact Shelving) P2710 .T467 1986
Learning foreign and second languages : perspectives in research and scholarship. Includes classroom theory, language acquisition, approaches to teaching, role of technology, and good bibliographies. Eisenhower D-Level Blue Labels P51.L39 1998 |
