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MLA, Foreign Languages and Literature Listings, Spanish, 2007-2008 Cycle

What about this year's MLA?????
Any news on a 2008-2009 WIKI????
Same question here???????
Follow this link:
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_2008-2009
For 2009-2010 follow this link:
http://academicjobs.wikia.com/wiki/Spanish_2009-2010#Welcome_to_the_Spanish_2009-2010_wiki_page.21

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The personal stats section was deleted (by someone else).

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WIKI COUNTER (How many people are using the wiki?)

I'm on the market 32
Search Committee ?
I'm lurking (=read but do not write) 7
I'm visiting this page way too many times a day 15
At least I had an excuse to buy new clothes 3
I hate buying new clothes 2
I'm freaked out by people who send 75+ applications (no offense) 11
I sent out 75+ applications, and glad of it 6
I sent out.. not 75, but lots. I learned a lot, but wouldn't do it again that way (1)
First MLA ever YIKES 9
We survived the MLA!!! 9
I had fun at the MLA! 6
Finally starting to recover from MLA! 3
I want them to call!!! 4
I'm freaked out by possible colleagues being so PARANOID 3
Game over: Latin Americanist (1) (Don't give up yet! Tons of people I know have gotten jobs in March! It's still early!)
Game over: Peninsularist [0. Just got a call-back. There's still hope! :) ]
Game over: Linguist (5). There are still jobs in teaching universities!! Keep looking on the joblist!! That's better than nothing...
I was lucky, I got a job this season! (7)
Is there anyone else wondering if there is anyone else still out there in our wiki world? :)
yes
See you next year in San Francisco! 3

(Conversations archived in discussions and campus interview Q and A.)

Discussions

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Post here miscellaneous questions and answers about the job market process, the MLA conference, attire, etc. (i.e. not directly related to a specific job or institution)

This section can be the place to post all questions that do not relate to the specific jobs. I am archiving some of the questions to this page.

Schools That Have Made Offers

U of Indianapolis offer made 12/7 (I am rejecting) WHY?? I got another offer. Lucky, early.
Randolph Macon College 12/10
Geneseo (in NY) before Xmas
Cal State Fullerton, lit
Macalester College, linguistics. They hired their inside candidate.
Cal State, Fullerton: Linguistics offered already made
University of Saint John's/College of Saint Benedict (declined 2/27)
Northern Colorado (second hand)
Florida State (second hand)
Union C
Cornell, Peninsularist
Millersville U (I rejected for another offer)
Kenyon College (email notification that offer made and accepted)
American University (accepted)
Gettysburg College (I rejected for another offer)
Denison University (accepted)
University of Mississippi (linguistics)
Fairfield U.
Augustana College
VMI (declined)
Transylvania University (offer made and rejected 2/20)2nd candidate contacted yet?
Roanoke College (accepted?NO, second candidate will have a shot at it very very soon)Second candidate DID ACCEPT the position, lucky fellow!)
University of Arizona (linguistics) Congratulations! That looked like a fantastic job.
University of Evansville (snail-mail letter notifying that position was filled)
UMass Amherst (linguistics)(offer made and accepted)
Weber State Univ. (accepted! Really, really nice people!) Congratulations!
Central Washington University (offer made and declined)
Alfred University (offer made and declined)
Vermont (offer made waiting for the answer)
Southern Connecticut State University
U of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) (declined)
University of Puget Sound
Pacific Lutheran U
Mary Washington University (email received, candidate selected)
University of San Diego (Mexicanist offered and accepted)(linguist offered and accepted)(There are going to be two newbies! It's good to know I won't be alone!)
Illinois State (literature) offer made and accepted
Walla Walla University (2nd hand)
UNC Chapel Hill (2nd hand) (offer made and accepted - awesome!!!!)
Texas State University, San Marcos
Worcester PI (offer made and declined)
Binghamton University (offer made and accepted)
University of South Carolina (ling.)Accepted???I got a letter saying that they found a candidate. That normally means that the candidate has accepted. Sorry.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Lafayette College (offer made and declined. 2nd. candidate should be contacted soon)
UT El Paso
Drew University (ling), accepted
U of Akron
Rochester Institute of Technology
LeHigh U
Centre College
Saint Joseph College in NY (rejection e-mail)
Washington and Jefferson (declined?)
ColState (the three offers accepted. says their website)
Babson College (accepted)
Wheaton College, MA (accepted)
Alma College (rejection email said they'd filled the position)
University of New Hampshire (email, they'd filled the position)
U of Cincinnati (theatre, accepted)
MIT
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Loyola College (letter announcing they filled the linguistics position)
Whitman, Latin Americanist
Purdue (letter announcing linguistics position has been filled)
Utah (linguistics, they had filled the position)
Montclair State U(they have filled the applied ling position)
Butler University (accepted)
Rice (2nd hand)
Youngstown SU (accepted)
Oakland University (offer made and declined; 2nd hand)
Willamette University (declined due to another offer)
Westminster College (MO) (accepted; 2nd hand)
St. Olaf College (accepted)

Schools That Have Scheduled Campus Interviews

Please post most recent news at BOTTOM of list. It is helpful if you provide a when contacted date as well but it is, of course, optional.

Campus Interview Q & A

Randolph Macon College, 11/11 (interview 11/29-11/30)
University of Indianapolis, 11/8 (interview 12/2-12/3)
Cal State Fullerton, literature (11/26 - 12/5)
Cal State Fullerton, linguistics (starting 12/4; no further info)
U of Cincinnati, 12/7 (January-February)
UW Green Bay (I am not a candidate I only know because I emailed to follow up)
West Georgia 12/12 (end of January)
Univ. of Alberta 12/14(mid January)
Millersville U, 12/14 (3rd week in January)
U of South Carolina, 12/14 (last week in January) Columbia? Aiken? Columbia transnational/globalism position
Macalester C, 11/27 (middle of December)
Babson College (January)
College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, 12/18 (mid Jan.)
York University (Toronto) (from paper to campus visit, no phone or mla interview-early February) Heard it's a fake search. details? Word of mouth: an insider already has the job. But, hey, good luck!
Elmira College (NY)(from paper to campus visit, no phone or mla interview in between)
The Citadel (MLA) What does this mean? Is it a MLA or an on campus? On campus
Pacific Lutheran U 1/30 (visits early February)
U of Minnesota Twin Cities when did they schedule?
Muhlenberg C, 1/2 (late January, early February)
Fairfield U, 12/29 (mid Jan.)
U of Akron, called 1/3, out of the blue, no MLA or phone interview, just a call for campus, is this weird? >> I don't think so. I had one like that and they offered me the job.
U of Michigan, 1/3 (middle-late Jan.)
Southwestern U, 1/3 (late Jan, early Feb)
Augustana 1/4 (January) spanish linguist?
U of San Diego, 1/4 (early Feb) Is this the Mexicanist position? Yes
DePauw U, 1/5 (early Feb)
Colby College (Mid Feb)
Loyola College (mid Jan) Which search? >>The 3 of them.
Rice, 1/7 (mid-late Jan)
Rhodes, 1/2 (mid-late Jan)
Benedictine C, 1/8 and 1/21 (they informed via email)
U of Alabama, 1/8 (late Jan.-mid Feb.)
Kenyon C, 1/8 (mid-late Jan)
UNC Chapel Hill, 1/8 when are the visits scheduled? I can't imagine why this is helpful information to share with others. I would urge wiki-users not to list such information because: a) it doesn't really help anyone-e.g. the important information is when schools invite people (which lets others know that they can probably cross a school off their list) and b) noting when your interview takes place reduces your anonymity (if that's important to you...) Well, like the former listings, there is a range of when they're doing the on campus visits. Usually you know: Feb, late-Jan, etc, etc. I don't believe this risks anything and provides information that can be helpful.
Cal State Long Beach, 1/7 when are the visits scheduled? If I were to answer, it would indicate who I am (nice use of the subjunctive in English though, huh!) ;)
Centre College 1/4
Transylvania University 1/4
Wayne State University 1/2
Southern Connecticut State University (contact 1/10, visit late January)
Binghamton University (SUNY)(contact after new year, visit late January)
U of North Florida (1/9)
Union C, 1/10
Gettysburg C, 1/9
Texas State University (San Marcos)- (contact 1/10, visit mid. January)
Alfred University (contact 1/10, visit mid. January)
University of Illinois, Chicago (Lat Am.; assuming Peninsularist as well as it was the same committee) 1/10, mid-Jan to early Feb
University of Miami, 1/11; 1/17, Mexicanist email or phone call? please respond; PHONE
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (contact 1/11, visit mid. February)
Ohio wesleyan: 1/11 (visit end january)
University of Southern California 1/10
University of Puget Sound (1/14, visit Feb) email or phone call? Strange questions to ask: both. Why strange? Stop paranoia already: I figure that emails are sent all at the same time, but phone calls could take at least two days -depending on how busy is who is calling-, in that case I could wait for the call one more day... That's it: no mystery or intrigue! That makes sense; I was just curious as to why you would ask. No paranoia involved.
Northwestern, 1/14 (second-hand)
Butler U, visit Feb? (second-hand)
Washington and Jefferson (early/mid Jan - second hand)
Iowa State (second hand)
LeHigh (second hand)
Millsaps College (1/16)
Temple U (visit feb)
Illinois State (visit late jan)
Evergreen, 1/18 news received via email
Lafayette College (second-hand)
Beloit College (there were already some visits, second-hand)
Denison University (visits late January)
Roanoke College (1/19)
Drew U (1/16) visit in Feb. (ling)
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Tulane
UT-Austin
Southern Illinois (Edwardsville) (second-hand knowledge, don't know about the dates though)
USC Which is school is this? USC can be several unis University of Southern California
Bucknell (when did they contact? by phone or e-mail? Thank you!)
Ripon College (1/22) visit in February
UMass Amherst (interviews last week of January)
University of San Diego (1/22) Is this linguistics? Mexicanist position posted above. yes, linguistics
East Carolina University (1/23)
Stephen F. Austin University (1/25)
Texas Women's University
Cornell (second hand already on going campus visits: one more campus interview left to occur this week [Jan 28th]). Only one person brought for each position, for peninsular and for latam. These are continuations of last semester's campus invitations.
Oklahoma State U (visits early-mid February)
American University
Georgetown University (second hand)
Penn (second hand)
University of Utah (job talks of candidates posted in departmental web-based events calendar)
Rochester Institute of Technology (contact 1/30)
UKY (second hand)
St. Joseph's College
Kutztown latin americanist position(contact 1/17, campus visit mid feb)
The College of Staten Island, CUNY (campus visit ending 2/15)
Wheaton College, MA
U of Arkansas, Little Rock
NYU (second hand)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2/8), no MLA interview, called to schedule campus interview
Frostburg (call feb,12 / visit late feb)
Colorado State U (call feb,8 / visit mid feb)
Cal State, Monterey Bay (2/13)
Kutztown, methodology (visit end feb)
Youngstown SU (2/22)
Washburn U (Peninsular) (and Latin Americanist 3/5)
Hamilton C
Grinnell C
Hobart and William Smith colleges
U Western Michigan, will reach a decision Friday, 4/4. Actually, they won't be deciding until next week.

Ferrum College (scheduled and then canceled)
Wells College (1 yr VAP)
University of Louisiana, they are currently doing campus interviews, April 10

Interview reviews/impressions

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Schools That Have Scheduled Phone Interviews after MLA

Rochester Institute of Technology (contacted 1/2)
East Stroudsburg U (1/7)
Evergreen State College (contacted 1/11)
U of Virginia at Wise (1/16) kind of late, no?
Oklahoma State U (contacted 1/18)
University of North Dakota
Westminster College (Missouri) (1/24)
University of Houston (1/26)
Ithaca College (1/30)
Univeristy of South Dakota (2/5)
SUNY Brockport (2/7)
Westmister College (2/28) is this same school as 5 lines above?
Friends University (2/29)
Humboldt State University (2/20)
Assumption College (2/25)
Grinell College
Hamilton College, (1 year visiting position - 2/6) (2)
East Central University (2/6)
University of Montana, Missoula
Willamette University (3/7)
University of Louisiana, Lafayette 3/13
UT Austin (sociolinguistics, last week in March (2nd hand), doing interviews again
UPenn Lehigh, 3/27

Schools That Have Scheduled MLA Interviews

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Anybody heard from???

Rejections? Phone Interviews? MLA Interviews? Offers? Gossip?
Q: Are acknowledgment letters/e-mails relevant in this section?
A: No. Want to know if they've made any decisions.

Click here for archived pre-MLA heard from section

Q: anyone heard from virginia tech recently (2/14)?

Q: anyone hear from northwestern?
A: As of last Wed., no decision had been made.
On-campus interviews going on now, 1/29, til mid-feb

Q: anyone heard anything about nyu?
A: 1/10
Q: Does this mean you heard from them on 1/10 or you posted this 1/10?
A: I heard they were not meeting until end of Jan.

Q: anyone heard anything from u of oregon?
A: They had their 2 on-campus interviews.

Q: anyone heard from barnard?
A: I know they have invited two candidates on-campus.

Q: anyone heard from bucknell?
A: see above, campus interviews already scheduled

Q: Virginia Tech?
A: see below for news on lit position

Q: Univ. Kentucky?
A: they have set up campus interviews
Search Cancelled

Q: M.I.T. (Hispanic American)
A: I received a letter dated February 12, saying that they are interviewing a smaller group of applicants.

Q: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Spanish)?
A: Contacted 2/8 to know if I was still interested. (I guess to set up an interview)

Q: Penn State?

Q: UC San Diego?
A: I've heard that they've set up campus interviews.
A: Correction: this was for the Lusophone position; I thought that UCSD was looking for a modern Peninsularist OR a Brazilianist. Sorry!!

Q: Augusta State University (GA)?

Q: Regis U (Denver)?
A: They asked missions to be mailed by last days of January.
A: Campus visits have started (second-hand)

Q: Cabrini C.?

Q: Assumption College?
Q: Anyone know if this search is still active?
A: I got a letter today (1/17) stating SC will begin the review process soon.
Q: Did anybody else NOT get this letter?
A: No letter on my end.
A: Got the same letter mid Dec but nothing since then.
A: I heard that had a set-back in time-line due to committee issues
Q: Still no follow up with anyone? If so, doesn't this seem strange?
A: It could be. I know that they had a committee member who was ill and another member resigned, but I don't know why.
I got a letter today (2/15) stating that they will begin reviewing documents soon...
Q: Anyone else NOT receive this letter, once again?
A: I haven't received either letter.
A: Received phone call today (02/22) asking if I was still interested, first contact ever. Do not know if it was for phone interview or for campus visit, as I said I was no longer interested.
A: I received one too yesterday (2/22). They want to schedule phone interviews first.
Q: Any more updates (3/20)?

Q: University of Maine at Farmington?
Q: Anyone knows if this search is still active?
A: I got a letter late November saying they would make phone calls early December but never hear back from them.
A: Had phone interviews 3rd week of Dec, but no contact since.

Q: James Madison U?

Q: University of North Texas?
A: they interviewed candidates before Thanksgiving

Q: The Farquhar College?

Q: U of Richmond?
A: They have set up campus interviews.

Q: U of VA College at Wise?

Q: US Naval Academy?

Q: Virginia Commonwealth U?

Q: Florida Southern College?

Q: Kutztown U?
A: I've heard they are setting campus interviews now (1/18), for early February.
A: I just received an email that there was some problem with the add and they are asking candidates whether they are still interested and will make decission in two more weeks (today's jan 21st). This is for the methodology position.

Q: Bridgewater (Spanish)?

Q: Missouri SU?
A: Received rej letter around 1/10

Q: California St Monterey Bay?
A: they sent an email on jan 17 asking whether we were still interested. they said they will invite for campus by feb 15 (I guess without phone or mla interviews...) and visits will be at the end of february

Q: UC Irvine?

Q: Florida Southern College?

Q: SUNY New Paltz?

Q: U of Texas, Austin (Spanish sociolinguistics)?
A: On-campus interviews already scheduled between late January and mid-February.
A: Thanks!

Q: Northern Illinois? Anyone heard from them since MLA? Campus interviews?
A: have not heard anything since MLA interview...
Q: Still no one here has heard anything?
Q: Anyone know if an offer has been made?

Q: Babson (re finalist)?
A: 3 candidates invited to campus (2nd hand)
A: Decision?

Q: URI (U Rhode Island)? Any news on timetable on this? *Any* news on this?
Q: Anyone know if this is a 'fake' search?

Q: UCLA (either position)?
A: both positions are interviewing late January through mid Feb.
A: EDIT: 3 Golden Age candidates; EDIT #2: only 2 Mexicanists ; both positions seemed to go for more advanced profs

Q: St. Olaf College (Minnesota)?
A: My impression from the MLA interview was that they w (I don't know who deleted the last part of this sentence) But my impression was that while the wouldn't have the campus interviews until Feb. they would begin scheduling them around mid-Jan. They said that the committee wouldn't meet until Feb. 8 because of their January term schudule.
Q: So they will schedule visits before the committee meets? I didn't get that from the interview.
A: Campus invitations extended week of Feb. 4 (second-hand knowledge)
A: I got a letter saying that they are having campus visits now (February 29)
A: I just received a call from a colleague asking if he was still interested in the position. Apparently the first round of candidates did not work out.

Q: U of Florida?
A: they are already interviewing candidates on campus

Q: U of Vermont?
A: They resumed classes on the 14th, so I figure they already met, decided and contacted candidates for campus visits. But it's all hypothetical since there are no new here either :(
Q: Can anybody confirm that they already scheduled the campus visits?
A: They have made an offer and are waiting for the answer.

Q: Tulane U?
A: See above.

Q: Virginia Tech?
A: I heard they were doing on campus already for Span Lit.
Q: Linguistics? LINGUISTICS?
Q: This means for Spanish Literature too? Please clarify.
A: As far as I can tell, the only heard-from info is on the lit position.

Q: Colorado State University?
A: Contacted feb 8th, visit mid feb (weird, phone interview in december). Lings.

Q: Towson University?
A: Contacted 1/24. Campus on February.

Q: University of Windsor?

Q: Southern Illinois U.-Edwardsville?
A: One of the candidates shared with us that she/he received a post-MLA rejection letter. Any news about campus interviews?
A: They have picked top 3/6 candidates for all positions and are doing campus visits for each position one after the other.

Q: Eastern Michigan University?


Q: University of New Brunswick?
Email asking if there was still any interest in the position, timelime for defense...

Q: Armstrong Atlantic U. (GA)?
I received the acknowledgment letter saying that if I hadn't heard from them by 12/17, it would mean that I was not selected for MLA interviews.
A: Nothing since MLA interview.
A: They have hired the "lucky" candidate. Good luck. I mean it: Good luck!!!!

Q: Frostburg State University?

Q: U of Memphis? Any news on timetable on this?
nothing. I wonder if they cancel their search. They seemed to have some economic problems I too am guessing this might be a canceled search.

Q: UMass Amherst?
A: Their on-campus interviews just ended on 1/29 (four candidates; 3 asst. profs, 1 ABD)

Q: University of Minnesota-Duluth? (any news at all? i haven't heard anything since MLA)
a: They have invited top two candidates to campus.
Q: Do you know when they extended the invite (not when the campus interviews are but when the invitation was made)?

Q: West Virginia U.?
A: They have contacted some candidates (March 3)

Q: Washington College?

Q: Purdue at Calumet.
A: 1/16 They send a self-identification letter announcing they will conduct campus interviews only. They will be in the Spring.
A: Got the same letter a few days later.

Q: American University?

Q: U of Virginia linguistics. Anyone get campus visits? I haven't heard from them since the MLA.
A: candidate has been invited to campus already.

Q: Transy? Any campus visits? No news from them since MLA
A: committee will meet 2/4 or 2/5 to decide on final candidate; post-campus visits

Q: Georgetown College?

Q: Ole Miss?

Q: MTSU?
A: scheduling phone interviews 2/10

Q: Wofford?

Q: Middlebury? (Either of the two jobs)
A: Have not had contact since MLA, but second hand info they have done some campus visits for LatAm Int. History position.

Q: Univ of Arizona (ling)?
A: campus interviews already scheduled

Q: University of AR, Little Rock? ("AK" changed to "AR"; AK is Alaska, Little Rock is in Arkansas)
A: Inviting 2 candidates to campus in Feb.

Q: Spelman?
A: I heard that they have contacted candidates for campus visits already.

Q: Whitman?
A: I heard they are having campus visits right now.

Q: Christopher Newport?


Q: Texas A&M (the afro-hispanic position)

Q: University of Evansville? post MLA
A: Campus visits have started. (second-hand)
A: Letter received via snail mail that search was successfully completed.

Q: Gustavus Adolphus?
A: They said invites would be made the first week of Feb. This week should be it 2/6.


Q: Earlham College?
A: They already have filled the position

Q: Northern Kentucky?

Q: Carnegie Mellon?
A: I'm pretty sure they've scheduled and conducted campus visits already... this is, of course, all second-hand.

Q: Queens College?

Q: Has anyone been on a campus visit to the University of New Hampshire yet (linguistics)? Did someone get an offer? They have already scheduled campus visits but I don't know if they are done yet.
Do you know if campus visits were scheduled a while ago, or just very recently, e.g. last week or the last couple of days?
I think it was several weeks ago. I didn't get in invite on campus but sent an email because I had another offer and was told (1/28) that I was not among the top candidates that they had invited on campus. I thought the group email sent out to candidates was a bit misleading because it lead me to think that had not invited anyone to campus.

>>It was more than a little bit misleading. They promised they were going to keep us all informed, and they didn't. They didn't have to promise that, but they did, so, of course, if we don't receive any news we will think that nothing has happened yet.
I was invited to campus visit and I canceled it. I remember the last visit on campus was scheduled for the 5th of February so they must be close to make an offer.

Q: Valdosta State University?

Q: University of Texas, Austin?
Canceled their original search. Did not appoint anyone. Opening up the search again. Opening it up to any rank. Just received an email about this. 2/23

Q: College of Charleston?

Q: Miami University, OH?

Q: U. of Rochester?

Q: Millikin?

Q: Loyola College

Q: East Central University (Oklahoma): I heard they were doing telephone interviews. Any more news? (I did a phone interview with them and they're really nice, they said that they'd get back to me in a week or so)
Follow up: I got invited for a campus interview, but they said that they wouldn't reimburse me if I got offered the position and I turned it town. I had another offer on the table, so I didn't go.
Q: Seton Hall U?

Q: Humboldt State University Is this a fake search?
A: I don't think so; I had a telephone interview with them less than a month ago, and within a few days they invited me to campus. I had to turn them down, but it sounded like they wanted to move quickly.
A: Thanks for this. I had a phone interview, too, but no call-back. :(

Q: CSU Dominguez Hills?

Rejection Letters/Emails Sent

We probably need to start specifying if these were post MLA (or post campus) interview rejections or not.

Alma College 12/5 (3)
Binghamton University (12/5 and 12/6) (4)
University of Maryland 12/4
University of Minnesota, Duluth 12/4 (2)
Rice University 12/6 (5)
Georgia Tech (paper reject rcvd 12/6 (4)
UC Davis (word of mouth, so take it with a grain of salt) 12/5
Georgetown (email 12/7, transatlantic position)
Carnegie Mellon (12/11)
University of Texas El Paso {12/11)
Rutgers University (Translation, paper reject rcvd 12/6)
NYU (paper reject rcvd 12/13)
Dalhousie University, NS, Canada (paper reject rcvd 12/14) Has anybody been contacted for an interview at the MLA yet?
Pomona College (rcvd 12/17 snail-mail)
University of Vermont (letter 12/17)
Miami University (12/19)
Columbia U (email, 12/19)
Hope College (letter, 12/18)
Washington and Lee 12/28
College of Charleston (email, 1/2)(2)
University of San Diego (1/8). linguistics?? No, Mexicanist Also linguistics
Georgetown (email, 1/8)
Wells College (letter 1/8)
University of Winnipeg (letter 1/8)
New Mexico State (las cruces) Post MLA-style phone interview
UNC-Chapel Hill (email, 1/14)(2)
Drew, Jan. 14, email linguistics?? No, literature.
Dominican University (email 1/14) regarding a campus visits.
Central Washington University (email 1/14)
Wisconsin Green-Bay (email 1/15)
Lakeland College (letter, received 1/17)
University of Miami(letter 1/17) Latin Americanist
Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville (letter 1-19) Latin Americanist or Peninsularist? Latin Americanist Have they called/e-mailed for campus interview? I don't know. I only got the rejection email... sorry... Ok. If I got it right, you did not interview with them at the MLA. If that was the case, this is a general rejection for the first group of candidates. No. I did have an MLA interview. What I don't know is if they have already contacted candidates for a campus visit
DePauw University (1/19) Q: Did anyone receive a letter saying that, if their original candidates do not work, they may still call for a Campus Visis later (i.e. March?) The campus visits are not done yet. Post above states early/mid Feb campus visits.Yeah, I would definitely NOT hold your breath on that one.
University of Evansville (rcvd 1/22 snail-mail) Was this post MLA interview rejection letter? Well, I didn't interview with them but I just received the letter. It is dated Jan 17, 2008. Thanks. I was wondering because I did interview with them at MLA and haven't got the letter yet. Post MLA interview rejection letter received.
U. of Indianapolis (e-mail 22/01)
Evergreen State College (letter, 1/23)
South Carolina, Aiken (email: 1/25) (2)
Missouri SU letter around 1/10
Lehigh U letter 2/1 Was this a post-MLA interview letter? A post-campus visit letter? Post MLA interview received via snail mail 2/20.
Washington and Jefferson college (dated 1/28, no MLA)(2)
American University (2/4) post MLA interview {new person: I got an email rejection 2/6 - did not have MLA interview}
U of North Texas (e-mail, regarding videoconference interview in November)
St Cloud State (e-mail, 2/5/ no MLA interview)
Northern Colorado U (snail mail, no MLA interview)
Cal State Fullerton linguistics (letter dated 2/1, received 2/11), but we already knew since the offer was listed above. I'm a little surprised I didn't even get a phone interview for this one. It didn't seem like one of the good jobs and there were so many out there. Any thoughts? Just curious. CSUF always gets a LOT of applications b/c it's in the LA area. If you have a partner who wants a job, in or outside of academia, it's a great place. A friend of mine interviewed there a couple of years ago. The faculty is really, really nice, and most get release time from classes. Congrats to the candidates that got these jobs!
University of Colorado, email feb. 11
Barnard (paper-letter; no MLA)
Gustavus Adolphus College (email, post-MLA interview)
University of South Carolina second language acquisition/pedagogy (snail mail, arrived 2/15)
University of Michigan linguistics (snail mail, arrived 2/15). I got the letter too. This is the second year that they have decided NOT to fill the position. I wonder what they are looking for... So they didn't fill it at all? I just figured they gave it to the other candidate. I think there were only two of us. Why didn't they fill it? Any ideas? I'm very surprised.Do you think they're being picky? Maybe there's something else going on. Yep, the letter said that they didn't fill the position. My guess is that they were/are looking for a very traditionally defined quantitative sociolinguist. (all of this is second hand knowlege> problems with administration... but they actually are not looking for anything TRADITIONAL) I have no inside knowledge, but I'm guessing that you're right that there are some issues beyond simply being picky. I hope for the linguists' sake that they're able to hire a linguist next year. They were very nice, and I had an excellent campus visit.
Furman University (email position filled 2/19)
Barnard (post-MLA, letter)
Cornell (no MLA, letter)
MIT (no MLA, letter)
UMN (email position filled 2/27)
UMN Duluth (email position filled 2/27)
Saint Joseph College in NY (email position filled)
Utica College (letter position filled)
UMN Minneapolis (letter position filled)
U Mass, Boston (letter position filled)
Morgan State (snail mail, 3/10)
Millsaps College (3/10)
Whitman, Latin Americanist (letter position filled 3/13)
Sarah Lawrence College (paper letter, candidate accepted offer 3/13)
U of Illinois, letter received 3/28. Didn't read it.
Evergreen, filled position at the beginning of March says secretary
Virginia Tech (Post MLA)letter says position has been filled.



So what does it mean if rejection letters/emails have been sent but I haven't received them but I haven't received an invitation either? Does that mean I am still in the "final" but I'm not their first choice?
A: If they have scheduled campus visits, I would take it to suggest that, yes, you may be farther down the list but not completely out of the running, should one of the invitees not be a fit.
A: Some SC have different ways to approach this issue. Sometimes they choose their 3/6 top candidates, then they send rejection letters/emails to the rest of the pool, take some time to choose the first 3 candidates, and then they send the invitations. Although this is not the usual method, it just happened to me very recently.
A: Without being overtly negative, some search committees will not send one a rejection letter, even if one is completely out of the race, until their candidate (could be their fifth choice) has signed his/her contract letter. Some SC never send rejection letters out.

Schools That Have Scheduled Phone Interviews

Cal State Fullerton, literature date?
U of Wisconsin Green Bay (contacted 11/1, interview 11/9)
Cal State Fullerton, linguistics date?
Macalester College date?
Montclair State University date?
U of Cincinnati - Peninsular (contacted 11/26, interviews 12/3, 12/4, 12/5)
Weber State U (contacted 11/26 and 11/27, interviews 12/3 and 12/7) (Decision in January for on campus)
U of Dallas (contacted 12/1, interviews 12/6, 12/7, 12/10)
Colorado State University - Cont. Penin. 12/10
Salem State College (contact 12/05 interview 12/12)
USC, Aiken (contact 12/06)
Millersville U. (date ???)
Georgia Southern State U (date ??) (is this Armstrong Atlantic State??) no
Elon University (12/7) (Interviews on Dec 12th and 14th)
Western Illinois University (contacted 12/10)
Christopher Newport (contacted 12/10 for a preliminary phone interview, they are also going to MLA) (3)
Stephen F. Austin State U (contacted 12/11)
U of Minnesota - Duluth
Colorado state U. Fort Collins) (Spanish) week of 12/10
Texas Women's College 12/17, interviews second week of January
College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
U of Michigan
U of Alabama
U of Virginia at Wise (1/16) kind of late, no?
University of North Dakota
Westminster College (Missouri) (1/24)
Grinnell College
Saint Anselm College

Schools That Have Requested More Materials

Loyola College (transcripts, writing sample) 11/19
TX Women's U (entire dossier, trans, letters, etc) 11/20 (phone interviews in Jan, on campus in Feb)
Michigan State (writing sample, 11/20)
Rice (writing sample 11/20)
USC (writing sample) 11/21 (University of Southern California or University of South Carolina? Southern Cal?)
Westminster College (MO) 12/3 (teaching philosophy, letters, transcripts)
Washington and Jefferson College (date?)
Columbia (completed dissertation chapters) what position? Asst. Prof. Span., When did they request this? 12/3 Columbia or Barnard?
U of North Florida (12/11) unofficial transcripts
Regis University (1/14) an essay/mission to be followed by a campus visit, or not.

Schools with Cancelled Searches

Q.) I saw a short article in the CHE about three days ago re the cancellation of UK faculty hires in general. Apparently, there is an article in the student newspaper about this. I don't know if that freeze applies to the search for the Transatlantic position. Does anyone know anything about this? A.) I heard the freeze will only affect staff positions.
A: Actually, they (UK) canceled the search and the reason is related to government cutbacks.
Received official notice announcing canceled search due to State funding cuts, dated March 2nd


UC San Diego, Peninsularist: letter received 1/19, dated 1/11, "lack of funding". This is something like the 3rd or 4th year that they've advertised this position.
Cal State Long Beach (anticipated gov't cuts)
U of Florida
Cal State Polytechnic U Pomona
U of Kentucky (second-hand knowledge)
UT Austin (sociolinguistics) They didn't fill the position and are going to reopen the search with a modified job description. I heard that they have been trying to fill this position for 10 years. - I understand that the Dept. has really nasty politics, and people don't play well together.
Muhlenberg C (T-T search transformed into a VP search)
Middlebury, sociolinguistics 3 yr. position
Ohio State (Lat. American popular cultures)letter received 4/25; not canceled, per se, but will be re-opened later; cryptic, interesting remark about offer being extended but negotiations not going well

Starting Salaries

Please indicate the following:

School size, rank/position, starting salary, teaching load, geographical region, urban/rural, misc comments.
Please specify as well candidate status and job level: ABD, Post-Doc, TT, non-TT, starting Assistant, advanced Assistant, Associate, etc. since these factors influence salary levels too.
Would be interesting to see gender given that everyone says women receive lower innitial offers and are less likely to negotiate!
For example: Research I, starting assistant prof., $54k, 2/3, midwest, small city, negotiated up from $53k

1) Small Liberal Arts College, starting assistant professor, $50K, 3-1-3 (1 is january term) East Coast, Virginia, suburb of large city, female (congratulations!) Thank you! I'm excited!
PEOPLE: Check out the AAUP salary list on the Chronicle of Higher Education. It may help in negotiating the best pay.

2. In the MLA interview, U o Arkansas, Little Rock said it would be $47,000 as an ABD, and $50,000 with the PhD, and they sounded as if this really wasn't negotiable. I didn't get that impression from them.

3) Small Liberal Arts College, Visiting assistant professor, $60K, 3-2 (early april.) Upstate NY, small town, female

4.) Large private university, south, Visiting Assistant Prof., $35K, 3-3; male

5) Mid-sized private college northeast, asst profesor, $65k, 2-2 and language direction responsibilities (1 course reduction); female.

Are you sure? It seemed to me that since these were averages they could be highly misleading. For example, a fourth year assistant professor in the sciences would usually make much much more than a fresh assistant professor in the humanities at the same university. I think these stats are really good for figuring out which schools will offer more than others, but as an indication of what you can expect to bargain for, I'm not sure. But correct me if I'm wrong... My guess is that it might be better to talk to friends who were recently hired at similar institutions.

When I checked the averages on the link at the Chronicle of Higher Education, you could actually check the averages by geographical location, institution size, AND the type of position, so I could search for what the average pay for an assistant professor position in the humanities and even give the zip code of the school location, and it would spit back an average, and then it even had a link to compare the cost of living in different locations in order to compare the salary that way, so like the 44,000 average of one place was actually more than the $53,000 average in a big city when cost of living was figured into the equation.

Can you give us the url?

Here is the webpage of the chronicle of higher ed, on the right side of the page under the heading "salaries" there are links to several cost of living and salary calculators, you can do a more detailed search and even get what a "foreign language" assistant professor at a specific type of institution at a specific zip code statistically makes, and even shows the percentile that make more and less with amounts...: http://chronicle.com/jobs/tools/
The cost of living is huge BUT be careful because these estimates vary WIDELY by resource... by THOUSANDS dollars. www.relocationessentials.com does it by county and seems more realistic. moving.com has one as does www.bestplaces.net/col. The last one seems most unrealistic but checking out several resources should give you an idea.

Also, many states require that institutions (in particular when it's state school) make their salaries public... It takes some doing to find them but they can be accessed.