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I'm on the market and I'm...
...ABD, but defending real soon now: 9
...a Ph.D., but still at my degree-granting institution: 4
...in a post-doctoral position (ABD or with degree in hand): 2
...a visiting assistant professor or adjunct position: 5
...in a tenure-track position:2
...in a tenured position: 1
...in a non-academic position:
Actually, I'm just lurking: 3

1. Angelo SU, open until filled
2. Bucknell U, contemporary lit., due 11/15/08
3. Central C, open until filled
4. Colgate U, due 12/1/08
5. Columbia U, post 1700, due 11/10/08
6. Cornell U, asst. or assoc. prof., German/theater/film, due 11/1/08
7. DePaul U, due 11/15/08
8. Dickinson C, due 11/15/08 link
9. Haverford C, asst. or assoc. prof., due 11/1/08
10. Hofstra U, post 1800, new due date: 11/28/08
11. Lebanon Valley C, due 11/1/08
12. Montana SU, post 1800, due 11/1/08 via AATG job list
13. Northwestern U, any field after 1750, due 10/31/08
14. Pennsylvania SU, asst. or assoc. prof., linguistics or applied ling, due 11/1/08
15. Princeton U, due 11/3/08
16. Randolph-Macon C, 19th cent. and/or contemporary. due 11/1/08
17. Smith C, due 12/1/08, is there more detail than has been posted here?
18. Temple U, German/Women's Studies, due 11/21/08
19. Texas Tech U, open rank, due 11/21/08
20. Tufts U, contemporary lit/film, due 11/1/08
21. U Central Missouri, due 11/17/08
22. U Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 19/20th c., due 11/8/08
23. U Minnesota, Twin Cities, due 11/10/08
24. U Minnesota, Twin Cities, open rank, due 11/10/08
25. U Montana, pre-20th c., due 11/24/08 via AATG list
26. U North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1750-1830, due 11/4/08 link
27. U North Texas, due 11/24/08
28. U Nebraska, Omaha, due 11/5/08
29. U Portland, due 11/21/08
30. U Texas, Austin, applied linguistics, due 10/15/08
31. U Virginia, pre-1750, due 10/25/08
32. U Washington, due 11/15/2006 [sic!]
33. U Wyoming, 18th or 19th century, due 11/15/08
34. Utah SU, due 12/1/08
35. Virginia Polytech Inst & SU, 19/20th c., due 11/15/08
36. Wayne SU, asst. or assoc. prof, due 12/1/08
37. Wellesley C, any field after 1750, due 10/15/08
38. Wheaton C, due 11/14/08
39. Whitman C, due 11/21/08
40. Yale U, due 11/15/08

1. Harvard U, preceptor in Scandinavian, no due date given
2. U Massachusetts Amherst, asst prof, German and Scandinavian, due 11/21/08 - SEARCH CANCELED
   
3. U Oregon, VAP in Scandinavian, renewable up to 2 more years, due 12/1/08

1. Central C, asst./assoc. prof of German and French, open until filled
2. Coker C, asst prof of French or German or Italian or Latin, due 11/7/08
3. Hardin-Simmons U, German or French, due 10/1/08
4. Iowa SU, world languages and cultures or linguistics, due 10/22/08
5. Loyola Marymount U, applied linguistics, due 10/31/08
6. Princeton U, fellow/lecturer, due 10/1/08
7. Rice U, external faculty fellowship, due 11/17/08
8. U California, Santa Cruz, asst.-full prof, applied ling, 11/24/08
9. U Colorado, Jewish literature, due 10/31/08
10. U Hawaii, applied linguistics, due 10/15/08
11. U South Florida, applied linguistics, 11/21/08
12. U Wisconsin, Milwaukee, German and French or Spanish, due 11/15/08
13. Valparaiso U, Lilly postdoctoral fellowship, due 12/16/08
14. Western Illinois U, asst prof, German and another language, no due date given

1. Bates College, lecturer (long term), due 11/1/08
2. Boston U, lecturer, open until filled
3. Bowdoin College, visiting asst. prof. (one-year), post-1945, due 10/31/07
4. Cornell U, Mellon postdoc, due 11/1/08
5. Duke U, visiting prof./dir. of language program, due 11/4/08
6. Earlham C, 1-year VAP, due 12/1/08
7. Harvard U, prof. of practice/senior preceptor of German, due 11/17/08
8. James Madison U, lecturer, renewable appointment, due 11/3/08
9. Oberlin C, visiting asst. prof., spring 2009 only, due 10/15/08
10. U Illinois Chicago, German language program director, due 10/30/08 - search suspended 11/15/08
11. U Michigan, lecturer (ongoing), due 10/15/08
12. U Wisconsin Parkside, spring 2009 only, due 11/21/08
13. Valparaiso U, Lilly postdoctoral fellowship, due 12/16/08

1. Baylor U, chair, dept. of modern foreign languages, due 11/1/08
2. Johns Hopkins U, full prof., 18th c., due 11/1/08 Job description - SEARCH CANCELED
   
3. U California Santa Cruz, assoc. or full prof, applied ling, due 11/24/08
4. U Colorado Boulder, full or advanced assoc. prof., due 10/31/08
5. U Minnesota, assoc. or full prof., due 11/10/08
6. U South Florida, assoc. or full, applied ling, due 12/1/08

Based on ALL German jobs advertised on the ADFL list:

• The opening-day number this year (43) is down significantly from the last two years but nearly identical to 2005 (44)
• The portion of tenure-track assistant or open-rank positions compared to all first-day jobs dropped in 2008 compared to previous years, from 60-70% to just over 50% of all positions: 33 of 50 (2003), 32 of 52 (2004), 29 of 44 (2004), 38 of 55 (2006), 34 of 54 (2007), 23 of 43 (2008).
  
• For the 2006-2007 cycle, 64 U.S. universities made tenure-track hires in German and at least 47 made visiting or non-tenure-track hires.
• For the 2007-2008 cycle, 58 U.S. universities made tenure-track hires in German and around 56 made visiting or non-tenure-track hires.
• For the last two years, right around 60% of all eventual tenure-track job ads appeared on the first day.
• Around a third of all jobs that eventually appear on the ADFL list appear on the first day. Last year, 54 of 178 total jobs (30%) showed up on the first day. For 2006, it was 55 of 154 (36%), and for 2005, it was 44 of 135 jobs (33%).
• Half of the jobs appear after five weeks, and 70% by 12 weeks.
• Last year, the last German tenure-track job ad was posted on February 15.
• The last job ads appeared in late May, and ads have appeared even later in other years.
• According to last year's Wiki, only two departments contacted candidates for MLA interviews before November 29, and the latest contact came on December 21.
• These figures are based on one person's files and not the official MLA reports, so treat with the appropriate degree of skepticism.

For new position announcements, please add the relevant information: School, specialty, due date, and link to job description, if available.

As job search progress indicators become available, add the type of information and date preceded by a hyphen on the next line after the position announcement. The link to a job description can be deleted after the application due date.

After an offer has been accepted, please underline the name of the institution so that we can easily see which positions have already been filled.

For example:

1. Midwest Dreamland U, 16/17th c., due 11/1/08 - updates:
   - writing sample requested by e-mail 11/5
   - phone interview scheduled 11/20
   - MLA interview scheduled 12/3
   - on-campus interview invitation 1/12
   - offer extended 3/11
   - offer accepted 3/25
   - rejection letter received 4/1 (Rejection letters received after the on-campus visits.)
   

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• Do keep in mind that edits and discussion page posts will be tied to your IP address. If you're concerned about identifying yourself, post from home or a public terminal. On the other hand, it's not like the whole world doesn't already know you're on the market.
  
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1. Should I go on the market this year? What's the job market like? Ask your advisor, recently-hired faculty, and advanced grad students in your program. Also, read through the archives of the Chronicle of Higher Education careers section and especially the forums. There's a lot of good information there.
   
2. Where do I find job postings? Check the ADFL job information list, higheredjobs.com, and the ads in the Chronicle of Higher Education at least weekly. Also, be sure to subscribe to the AATG job e-mail list. Nearly all German academic jobs show up on at least one of those, although a few jobs will make it onto this list from other sources.
   
3. It's already November 15, and I haven't heard back from any of the search committees, even though I sent in my application two weeks ago. Am I doomed? Short answer: no, you're not doomed. Check out the German wikis from last year and the year before to see how the interview schedule really works.
   
4. I'm looking for an academic job in German. Am I doomed? According to the last wiki counter from last year, no one who was capable of reading and editing the wiki reports being still unemployed for the fall. Then again, not finding a job until May or June or July isn't much fun, either.