This is a story about how I landed a (part-time) high school teaching job at an awesome private school in Manhattan. I’m happy to talk more about the job itself (benefits and drawbacks) but in the spirit of what helped me actually FIND the job, here are the major strategies I found helpful in the process:

I’d always known I cared more about…[Read more]

Hi everyone! I’m Candace Cunard and I was in the latest Proseminar class (2017-18). I finished and defended my dissertation (on eighteenth-century British novels) at Columbia in May 2018, and have just survived my first month in a job as a part-time high school English teacher at a progressive private school in New York City (where I teach 2…[Read more]

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Let me be the first to share the news about my new (and now official, since I passed my trial period!) job:

A few months ago, at the end of my PhD at Princeton, I found myself facing a choice with an obvious right answer, but which was psychologically rather difficult (as I’m sure you can all imagine). I had been offered two great…[Read more]

Hi everyone! My name is Natalie and I just completed my PhD at Princeton in French literature (specifically hi to Brian — remember me from Urbino? Fun times!). At the end of my program, I had a few postdoc offers and had a campus visit scheduled for a tenure-track job in Alabama, but I really wanted to move to Paris to live with my husband, so t…[Read more]

Hello everybody! My name is Nicole, and I just received my Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature with a certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Columbia University in May 2018. Right now, I’m a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. I still spend a lot of…[Read more]

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I just finished updating my profile and boy, did it feel good to say that I recently completed my Ph.D.! That said, since I’m in a transitional period right now, I was a bit unsure of what to list as my academic affiliation and addresses/email addresses on my CV and on the site, but soon I will have new official ones for my job in…[Read more]

Hello all! My name is Natalie and I just defended my dissertation on literature and mathematics at Princeton University a little over a week ago! I’m in a bit of a transitional period — I recently accepted what seems like the coolest job in Paris at the SAE Institute, but my dissertation committee also insists that I try to publish my d…[Read more]