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Monthly Archives: May 2013
The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search – Chronicle article
From this weeks Chronicle of Higher Education (access through the UTD library) on the academic job search:
The long odds – article details two particular job searches, including a comparison of the candidates’ CVs
Play the role of the search committee – interactive graphic that lets you explore all 117 candidates for a search using a variety of criteria.
Translation contest
ATTENTION EMERGING TRANSLATORS!
Would you like to be published alongside translations by Lawrence Venuti, Lydia Davis, and Susan Bernofsky? Would you like your work seen and judged by Eliot Weinberger and Howard Goldblatt? Most importantly, is there an untranslated or little-translated writer that you are desperately,maddeningly determined to bring to the attention of the English-speaking world?
Then submit to “Close Approximations,” Asymptote’s first ever translation contest! Thanks to your generous support of our IndieGogo campaign, we can make it worth your while: the winner of each category will receive 1,000 USD, as well as the opportunity to publish with Asymptote.
So polish up that desk drawer full of worked-over and scribbled-on manuscripts. The deadline is September 1st, 2013. For more information and contest rules, check out our guidelines here: http://asymptotejournal.com/contest.php
Sean Cotter
Associate Professor of Literature and Literary Translation The University of Texas at Dallas sean.cotter@utdallas.edu
A&H Graduates at the Doctoral Hooding ceremony
On Thursday May 16 a number of A&H PhD students were hooded:
Terje Saar-Hambazaza
Anthony “Bart” Chaney
Yuehong Chen
Abronita Douzart
Diane Durant
Julienne Greer
Luke Lafitte
Kyle Simmons
Job – World History
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000780358-01/?cid=ja&utm_source=ja&utm_medium=en
Instructor or Assistant Professor – World History
- Institution:
- CUNY-Queensborough CommunityCollege
- Posted:
- May 15, 2013
- Location:
- New York
- Employment Level:
- Non tenure track
- Website:
- http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/
- Application Deadline:
- July 7, 2013
Jobs from LinkedIn
Job Discussions (4) from LinkedIn group Lecturers and Instructors in Humanities
Positions – English – Midwestern State in Wichita Falls
http://personnel.mwsu.edu/jobs/viewOpenFacultyJobDetails.asp?ID=70792
| Position: | Instructor (3 positions available – One Permanent & Two One-year Hires) |
| Budget Position #: | |
| Department: | English |
| Job Classification(s): | The following positions will be considered for this opening. Please use the links below to open job description(s) in a NEW WINDOW. |
| Starting Date: | Fall 2013 |
| Closing Date: | until filled |
| Responsibilities: | Teach three sections of composition and one section of literature or technical writing each semester. |
| Qualifications: | At least an MA in English or in Rhetoric and Composition, minimum of two years teaching composition at the college level, demonstrated excellence in teaching composition. |
AN EEO/ADAAA COMPLIANCE EMPLOYER
This position is designated as security sensitive and requires the finalist to complete a criminal background check.
| Letter of application, graduate transcripts, C.V., and contact information for three references. Please send information to the contact listed below.
Contact Information |
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| Mailing Address
Pam Marshall, Secretary Midwestern State University |
For More Information
Pam Marshall |
Memorial Reception for Victor Worsfold May 14 at 2 pm
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students:
A memorial reception is planned for Tuesday, May 14 at 2:00 pm in the Jonsson Performance Hall in remembrance of Dr. Victor L. Worsfold. The event is open to the public.
The family requests that guests wear bright, colorful clothing as this event is to celebrate Victor’s life. Please see announcement below:
An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel From the Philosophy Department at San Jose U.
Snell Graduate Essay Prize in European History
The John L. Snell Memorial Prize is named for Professor John L. Snell (1923-1972) who was a distinguished scholar and diplomatic historian and a founder of the European History Section. A bomber pilot during World War II, he taught at Tulane University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. in 1950. The Snell Prize is given annually to the graduate student with the best seminar research paper in European history, written within the past year. “European” is defined as encompassing the entire continent, including Russia, from pre-history to the present.
The Prize winner will be honored at the annual lunch meeting of the Section in conjunction with the Southern Historical Association meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 2013. The award carries a stipend of $150. The Snell Award winner also receives one complimentary year of student membership in the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association.
The competition is open to graduate students of any member of the Section or of a program at a Southern college or university. Only papers written during the academic year immediately preceding the granting of the award, including summer 2012, are acceptable. The supervising faculty member or adviser who must also endorse the submission must attest to this fact. The competition is open only to seminar papers, the length of which shall not exceed 50 pages (endnotes and bibliography do not count toward this limit). Seminar papers may be related to prospective theses or dissertations.
Contestants must submit their papers, either in hard copy or by email, to each member of the committee. Manuscripts must be typed, double-spaced, and include a bibliography and the customary documentation. If contestants wish to have copies returned, they must include stamped, self-addressed envelopes. A letter of endorsement from the supervising faculty member or adviser must accompany the submission. The deadline for receipt of the submission is August 1, 2013. One copy should be sent to each of the following three judges:
Dr. Sharon Kowalsky, Snell Prize Committee Chair
Department of History
Texas A & M Commerce
Commerce, TX 75428
Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu
Dr. Stephen D. Carls
Union University
1050 Union University Drive
Jackson, TN 38305
scarls@uu.edu
Dr. Patricia Kollander
Department of History
Florida Atlantic University
777 W. Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431-0991
kollande@fau.edu
