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]

Hi, all!

I’m Molly Appel – I did the Connected Academics Boot Camp at MLA 2018. My blog for the Connected Academics site led me to an opportunity for a career exploration series with Interfolio. Here’s my first post:

Three steps to stay in touch with the alternative academic job market

Cheers!

Hi all,

This victory is a bit old, but I started my first post-PhD job in August 2017 (after defending in March 2017). I direct communications and run public programming for Temple University Libraries. I manage a team of two and a designer and will be adding to my team over the next few years. I really like the job, though it was definitely a…[Read more]

Hi all!

I’m Sara Wilson, and I’m a 2016-17 proseminar alum. I currently direct communications and outreach (including public programming) for Temple University Libraries. I got my PhD at Temple in 20th century British Literature. I’m always happy to talk about my job or hear what others are doing. Like Natalie, I’m about to write more about my…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

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]

Hi all! I’m Maria Seger, and I’m currently an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. I finished my PhD at the University of Connecticut in 2016, and I was part of the inaugural cohort of the Connected Academics in 2015-16. I’m not committed to a lifetime on the tenure track, so I’m looking forward to learning…[Read more]

Hi all! I’m Beth Seltzer, and I do digital pedagogy and scholarship as an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College. I have a Ph.D. in Victorian literature. Happy to talk to people about Ed Tech type positions, and to hear about opportunities!

I’ve just uploaded two PDF’s to the Files section of jobs that were recently posted to Versatile PhD.

One is a 50% position at UC Merced that involves providing logistical support for a grant that builds community partnerships and graduate mentorship in the interdisciplinary humanities. (I imagine they might be willing to supplement the other 50%…[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]

I’ve recently starting compiling a Connected Academics reading list. On the list are the following:

Designing the Professional by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans (muscle your way past the class assumptions and the design thinking cultishness and there is excellent advice)

Not for Profit by Martha Nussbaum (not sure this is her best book but I think…[Read more]