La Lecturess

La Lecturess
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Contributors La Lecturess Flavia Email: lecturess[AT]gmail[DOT]com Recent Posts First snow How blogging helps the job candidate Gays in the priesthood, take two End-of-semester countdown Day of leisure Just call me Epicoene Cultural insensitivity Happy six-month bloggiversary to me! Words I never thought I'd write on a student's paper Gays in the priesthood Things I Read and/or People I Like The New York Times Arts & Letters Daily The Chronicle of Higher Education Commonweal Crooked Timber Inside Higher Ed The Revealer Andrew Sullivan Talking Points Memo Wonkette ABD Anonymous ABD Mom Academic Coach Acephalous Advice at Your Own Risk Anbruch Ancrene Wiseass Another Damned Medievalist Badgerings Bardiac Between an Oxymoron and a Redundancy Blogging the Renaissance Bitch. Ph.D. Cheeky Prof. Clashing Hats Confessions of a Community College Dean Dr. Virago (Quod She) Early Modern Notes Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog G-Fav's Meanderings H.K. in Seoul A Ianqui in Greenwich Village In Favor of Thinking Ink and Incapability It's Probably Me Kermit's Log Kinesthesis Breakthrough Manolo's Shoe Blog Margo, Darling Medieval Woman Michael Berube My So-Called (ABD) Life Negative Capability New Kid on the Hallway On Any Given Day One Bright Star Reignited Oronte Churm Pretty Hard, Dammit Phantom Scribbler Pilgrim/Heretic Playing School, Irreverently Polyopia Professorial Confessions Professor Me Raining Cats & Dogma Reassigned Time Scrivenings Sfragett's City Slaves of Academe Thanks for not Being a Zombie Terminal Degree The Theater Absurd Timna Tired of Ted Tomato Nation Verbosity Defined What Now? Will's Coffee House Writing as Jo(e) Xoom Late Spring To-Do List ~~Read scholarly book #1~~ Read scholarly book #2 ~~Catch up on professional journals~~ ~~Administer evaluations~~ ~~Grade seminar research papers~~ ~~Write two final exams~~ ~~Grade final exams~~ ~~Compute final grades~~ ~~Order books for fall~~ Find apartment in New City ~~Attend INRU Commencement!~~	Tuesday, December 06, 2005 First interview request Yippee! I just got my first request for a job interview at the MLA. It's from a flagship state university in a region of the country that's relatively unfamiliar to me--but I've heard good things about both the university and the town itself (one of my best friends from grad school got his B.A. and M.A. from said university). Weird thing: their interviewing/hiring committee is HUGE! Five faculty members and one grad student. However, only two of them are actually in my field (and their scholarly interests are dramatically different from mine), so hopefully that nightmare scenario wherein I get grilled about some major scholarly work that I've somehow never read--but that should be crucial to my research--won't actually come to pass. I also think it says good things about their department that they include grad students in the process. link \| posted by La Lecturess at 1:40 PM \| 11 Comments: Wanna Be PhD commented at 4:50 PM~ Cool! Bardiac commented at 5:05 PM~ Congrats! A sign of more to come, I hope! phd me commented at 5:52 PM~ Fantastic! Keep us posted! Mon commented at 6:01 PM~ Congratulations!! Anonymous commented at 7:12 PM~ Great! How'd you first receive the news? Letter? email? phone? Good show! Anonymous commented at 9:59 PM~ ... smoke signals? Congrats, very proud. I had my one and only (and hellish) final today, so I'm done! Well, a few pages of writing for French by Thursday, and I'm done! Can't wait to see you in a week and a half, big sis! -scr BrightStar (B*) commented at 10:27 PM~ yay!! What Now? commented at 10:30 PM~ Congrats! It's always a huge relief when you know that you're going to MLA for a good reason, isn't it? And the calling-for-interview season is only now getting underway; let's hope you get plenty more. Anonymous commented at 11:00 PM~ Congrats!! That's awesome! (Can I just say that the phone interview I had with my last job was with at least four faculty and two undergrads?? It was kind of weird.) Anonymous commented at 10:39 AM~ hoorah! Today, Flagship State University, tomorrow, the world! go you J-fav. Anonymous commented at 8:26 AM~ yay! well done! Want to Post a Comment? back to main page
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