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*Request for more materials: 11/23 (x6)
 
*Request for more materials: 11/23 (x6)
 
*Request for MLA interview: 12/9 (by phone) (x4)
 
*Request for MLA interview: 12/9 (by phone) (x4)
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*Request for Campus Interview: 1/6
 
   
 
*Q: can I ask whether this came by email or regular mail?
 
*Q: can I ask whether this came by email or regular mail?

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Critical Theory

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania  Linka

ack: (11/17) (11/19)

Q: In what form (email, snail mail) did this come? I haven't received an acknowledgment from them as of today (11/18)

A: Snail mail. I submitted the app on Oct 26th. The postmark on the letter is 11/14.

Thanks. I just got it today by snail mail, actually.

Q: Anyone hear anything about when they will let people know? I see their other jobs (comp) they have set up MLA interviews. Thanks!

Q: I agree with the above poster--anyone hear anything? Are they still going through with the job? ANyone know when they said they would be hearing? Thanks! (12/5)

A: Request for MLA interview by email, 12/9

Q:Congrats on the job interview! Anyone else here about this? I know I'm grasping at straws here but only one person on the wiki has heard so far? Or, like some other jobs on the wiki, is this a rolling MLA interview process? Or, as I probably should just come to acceptance--they made thier picks? Anyway, congrats on all those who got interviews!

A: interview request (2X) also by email, also 12/9.  Just learning of this site.  Cheers.

Q: Request for an MLA interview (12/22) This seems very late - to be held next week. As you might expect, they seem anxious to set the appointment. Any other recent interview offers? Or thoughts on interpreting this move?

A: I'd guess that someone they planned to interview withdrew from the search, most likely because s/he accepted one of the many jobs that were making offers before MLA this year. That would have left an extra slot for them to fill at MLA. Or maybe they just decided to interview more people than they'd originally planned?

A:  The lit program in their department can be a bit of a mess--a few smart people and some folks who wound up there because no one else would have them.

Q: Does anyone remember the names of the other committee members beside Charles Cullum?  I want to write individual thank yous. But I don't remember the others' names.  I think one was Jennifer Forsyth.  No idea on the other Prof.  Thanks.

A: Jennifer Forsyth and Ray Tumbleson. I take offense to the person who wrote the critique. My sense of the department from the interview is that they are young, energetic, and truly excited about making the department a vibrant intellectual community. Take your negativity elsewhere. This is market is as bad as it gets. Interviews, campus visits, offers anywhere are to be celebrated and cherished. And this is an excellent job.  (Thank you.  And I agree; it is a good job.)

  • Call for campus visit on 1/4

Macalester College (11/1)

  • Request for more materials: 11/23 (x6)
  • Request for MLA interview: 12/9 (by phone) (x4)
  • Request for Campus Interview: 1/6
  • Q: can I ask whether this came by email or regular mail?
    • A: email.
  • Kind rejection, by email, 11.30 Very kind! Received 400 applications (x15)
  • Would be interested to know what kind of theory they're actually looking for.
    • A: Apparently not psychoanalytic, Foucauldian, and gender/sexuality...kicked me to the curb. Then again, this is an open-rank search, no?  BTW, they hired an excellent 18th-century person last year who does psychoanalytic.
    • A: I received the rejection yesterday too, and work on race theory.  I applied for a literature search there last year (American lit, I think?) that was canceled and was a lot less organized (received acknowledgement really late, though maybe it was because of the canceled search).
    • A: I work on post-structural theory and continental philosophical approaches to literature. Rejected as well. I would be interested to know if those who are advancing are Assistant or Associate Professors, given the open-rank call. A: postdoctoral fellow for me.
    • A: I got a request for more materials. I do contemporary fiction & critical theory (embodiment, identity & technology), literature and science/medicine, some disability studies. I'm a postdoc now. Don't know if that helps you. This stuff is all so random! (12/9 addition: I got an MLA interview too, if that is helpful. Also I pitched new media studies in my letter).
    • -- have almost the exact same interests as above, but I do nineteenth century fiction instead of contemporary. Also a postdoc.
    • A: Also a request for more, currently a VAP, work on postcolonial theory & aesthetic theory
    • Request for more, ABD, contemporary; historicist

Rhode Island College (1/8/2010) LINK

  • specialization in British literature of either Renaissance, 18th, 19th, 20th, or 21st c. AND literary theory (see also British Open page)

Rider University (NJ) Link

  • MLA interview request by phone (11/19 x2)
  • Did they ever ask for writing samples?
    • A: No, but took letters up front.