From Denied to Dean
Somebody from the MLA emailed me to see if I wanted to keep this blog, noting that I haven’t posted in a year. Well, it’s been less than a year since I last posted, but not by much. Within that period,...
View ArticleThe Tenuriad
If you know me, you know I hate the academic advice genre. So in the spirit of my hate for it, the traditional purpose of my blog here on MLA commons, and the abundance of ‘how to approach tenure’...
View ArticleHow Not to Get Tenure in 10 semesters, Part II
End of Summer: Receive a letter from the University President that says he accepts the Provost’s recommendation that you will be denied tenure “without prejudice.” Just in case you were wondering, the...
View ArticleHow Not to Get Tenure in 10 semesters, Part I.
Semester 1 (which, in a 7-year clock, will be half-way through your fifth year on the tenure track, December). During exam week, get called into an unexpected, unscheduled meeting with your Department...
View ArticleMore Whispering
In less than a week, I’ve received two rejection letters for jobs to which I’ve recently applied. The jobs were not faculty positions, but they were related in some fashion, administrative or staff...
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Whispering into a Void
This blog is not public right now. For all intents and purposes, it is on hiatus. I shut it down for a few reasons. As I indicated in my last post, I decided I would stop posting at this blog until I...
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Public/Private/Professional/Personal
If you watched the season premier of Mad Men this Sunday, you know about the Four P’s of a Business: price, product, place and promotion. One of the more interesting aspects of the episode was the way...
View ArticleIn which I prepare for another meeting
I just finished up a giant conference on Renaissance Literature/Art/Music/History and probably some other things–it was indeed so large that the program looked like a phone book. I was on two panels...
View ArticleThat was a good negosh
Like many people, I was shocked to hear about the job candidate, “W,” whose job offer was rescinded after she sent an email with an itemized list of conditions that would help her make a decision to...
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Honey, Have you seen Junior? He’s not in his room…
A couple weeks ago, I was thinking about myself as the middle child of academia, looking at various people in the family of academic roles and wishing there weren’t so many squabbles amongst parties...
View ArticleScare Quotes
Because I have a 24 hour tenure-cycle, any day is a day in which I might receive “news” about my “situation,” or, in normal people terms, my job. I put “news” in scare quotes because what I tend to get...
View ArticleIn which I prepare for another meeting
I just finished up a giant conference on Renaissance Literature/Art/Music/History and probably some other things–it was indeed so large that the program looked like a phone book. I was on two panels...
View ArticleThat was a good negosh
Like many people, I was shocked to hear about the job candidate, “W,” whose job offer was rescinded after she sent an email with an itemized list of conditions that would help her make a decision to...
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Honey, Have you seen Junior? He’s not in his room…
A couple weeks ago, I was thinking about myself as the middle child of academia, looking at various people in the family of academic roles and wishing there weren’t so many squabbles amongst parties...
View ArticleScare Quotes
Because I have a 24 hour tenure-cycle, any day is a day in which I might receive “news” about my “situation,” or, in normal people terms, my job. I put “news” in scare quotes because what I tend to get...
View ArticleOne more thing about English Enrollments
This is a follow up post to my previous one (below). One of the things we found out when we looked into our enrollment declines was that courses that entailed coming in on Fridays were comparatively...
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How do other universities talk about enrollments?
So…i’ve been writing for a while now–almost a year I guess?–about the experiences I’ve had since December 2010, when I was told by my Dean it was unlikely I’d be tenured because of declining...
View Article24 Hour Tenure Cycle
I spent some of my time on fellowship in California writing a post on my relationship to the field of book history, and thinking a lot about things like access to rare book libraries and how it shapes...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Travelers
I was reading my Provost’s blog the other day (you know, as one does), and I saw that he was in China. He notes: ”This is my first visit back to China in 20 years. The last visit was a vacation with...
View ArticleMark Bauerlein IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET.
Is addressing somebody directly with an angry tone an ad hominem attack? Or does one need to, you know, call a person names? I guess I hardly care right now. I do not like to be impolite, but man, Mark...
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