“The Job Market” — NASSR Day 1: Thursday, August 11, 10:30am.
The NASSR Graduate Student Caucus is proud to present a roundtable on the job market. Come hear luminaries in our field give us critical advice on how to land the positions we’ve worked so hard for.
Speakers and topics include:
Alan Bewell (University of Toronto): Teaching issues.
Teaching portfolio: What should be included? How do you
demonstrate you are a good teacher?
Julie Carlson (University of California, Santa Barbara): When
is it best to go on the job market, before or after you are
finished with your dissertation? The MLA interview: what to
expect. Some tips regarding a good job talk, what to wear,
the importance of the question period, etc.
Frances Ferguson (Johns Hopkins University): What to do if
you get a job offer? How job candidates should talk about
their personal situations with prospective employers. Job
negotiations. What can you negotiate? leave? A prestigious
postdoc? Perhaps also something might be said about how one
should understand things if you do not end up with a job offer
or a campus visit.
William Galperin (Rutgers University, New Brunswick): The job
letter and the dissertation abstract. Genre of the job
letter: What should be in a job letter? What should not? What
are some viable formulas? Should we follow the standard format
(dissertation description,teaching experience, etc.)?
Jonathan Mulrooney (College of the Holy Cross): Interviewing
tips, as well as preparation for campus visits. (differences
between research universities, liberal arts colleges,
colleges, etc.)
Juan Sanchez (UCLA): sharing his recent job market experience
and post doc advice.
See you there!
NASSR Graduate Student Caucus (NGSC)
The Graduate Student Community of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism