By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and before that she studied at Sussex, Reed College … [Read more...] about The UK Job Market Part II: Research By Numbers, or The REF
Landing Your Tenure Track Job
Your Academic Cover Letter – The Second Project Paragraph
By TPII editor extraordinaire, Verena Hutter This is a continuation of our 2017 series on the Academic Cover Letter. After you’ve outlined your publications and planned publications, you’ll outline your second project. Two things right away: I … [Read more...] about Your Academic Cover Letter – The Second Project Paragraph
Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying For UK Jobs, Part I – The Lay of the Land
By Alice Kelly, Ph.D. Alice Kelly is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Her academic training has been in the UK and the US. She completed her PhD in English at Cambridge in 2014, with a year as a Fox Fellow at Yale, and … [Read more...] about Please, Sir, I Want Some More Employment: Applying For UK Jobs, Part I – The Lay of the Land
Pitfalls of the Publication Para
By Verena Hutter and Karen Kelsky We continue in our series on the elements of the cover letter.... Scroll back over the last couple months to find the previous posts on self-introduction, content and contribution paragraphs! The heavy … [Read more...] about Pitfalls of the Publication Para
My Dissertation on X Examines X
One of the writing problems that stands out the most in this Fall's job documents is the "painful repetition" problem. This is when someone writes, "My dissertation, 'A Study of Elephants,' is a study of elephants." Here are some more: "I have … [Read more...] about My Dissertation on X Examines X
The Job Search is Not a Striptease
One of my pet peeves in job documents is when the job candidate coyly gestures toward a research conclusion, without actually coming out and saying what the conclusion is. I have no idea why so many job seekers are so invested in this coyness. The … [Read more...] about The Job Search is Not a Striptease
The Intro Paragraph is Your GPS Locator
Co-authored with TPII editor, Verena Hutter Almost every section of the CL has its own intricacies and pitfalls. The tailoring para for example can easily become a place where self-aggrandizing and desperation meet (“I’ll be a great asset … [Read more...] about The Intro Paragraph is Your GPS Locator
How To Apply for Your Second Job
[Updated July 2017.] Today is a Special Request Post for Matt, who wishes to know the ins and outs of applying for a second tenure track job. That is to say, how to apply for a job when you are already in a tenure track position but hope or dream … [Read more...] about How To Apply for Your Second Job
Laid Off From the Tenure Track – a Guest Post
Stephanie Hinnershitz is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History at Cleveland State University in Ohio where she specializes in U.S. immigration history. Her first book, Race, Religion, and Civil Rights, was published by Rutgers … [Read more...] about Laid Off From the Tenure Track – a Guest Post
Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo
By Karen Cardozo A recent Chronicle article on how to survive rejection linked to a blog post urging writers to aim for 100 rejections a year. How (existentially) low can you go?! This method of throwing literary spaghetti at the wall … [Read more...] about Rethinking Rejection – by Karen Cardozo