Member Spotlight: Suzy Cater
byWe talk to Suzy Cater, a doctoral candidate in French literature at New York University who is on the academic job market this year, about why she chose to create a professional Web site on MLA Commons.
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The Lore and Lure of the Academic Job Market #mla16
byPlease consider submitting a proposal for the following special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX. We are especially interested in proposals from graduate students preparing for the job market, or currently on the job market. This roundtable will consider how discipline-specific “lore” continually lures graduate students, contingent…
“Where do PhDs in English Get Jobs?”
byTo many observers, the job market for PhDs in English (and other humanities fields) may seem to be in crisis, but as has recently been pointed out by Anthony T. Grafton and Jim Grossman (2011), it is not, at least as the term crisis is usually defined. This job market…