The Campus Novel Part IIAll three novels which I’ve read in this independent study drive home a point about the place of place in contemporary university life…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
The Campus NovelAs part of an independent study undertaken concurrently with the course on employment and professional development which I’m currently…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
My Experience Part IV/Other Career PathsNow, I write from my second year in a PhD program. It has continued to be, to a great extent, what I signed up for; plus, I now have the…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
My Experience Part IIIAs much as I objected to some of the structural features of graduate education in the humanities, detailed in my previous post on…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
My Experience Part II/Student DebtBeing a Master’s student at UVA was at once familiar and strange. I slipped back into certain parts of it with ease and with joy after two…Dec 6, 2020Dec 6, 2020
My ExperienceAll of my preceding posts have been, by design, at a high level of abstraction, so now I’d like to get more concrete, and share some of my…Nov 23, 2020Nov 23, 2020
An Introduction to the Blog Part III: The Big Job Market PictureIn my previous post, I went over a single representative anecdote, drawn from the social sciences, on the nature of academic job searches…Nov 11, 2020Nov 11, 2020
An Introduction to the Blog Part IIIn 2018, an R1 U.S. university was looking to hire an assistant professor in social psychology, and received 218 applications for the…Nov 9, 2020Nov 9, 2020
Academic Troubles Talk: An Introduction to the BlogTo talk about the academic job market is frequently a form of what the sociolinguist Deborah Tannen refers to as “troubles talk,” a…Nov 3, 2020Nov 3, 2020
