... of addressing academic employment structurally. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 graduate education teaching learning job market rhetoric composition English alternate careers Works Cited AAUP Committee on Contingency and the Profession . 2009 . “ Tenure and Teaching Intensive...

... by professionalization so that it both refers to a variety of employment outcomes and addresses that most old-fashioned of subjects: the pleasures of intellectual labor. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 leisure labor professionalization employment vocation Cluster on Graduate Education...

...Joseph Turner This article argues that English studies departments should implement training programs in oral delivery strategies for graduate students seeking tenure-track employment. A sample of a thirteen-week training program, modeled on elements of classical rhetorical pedagogy, is offered...

...Amber Pouliot This article considers the all too common experience of precarious employment in higher education, but under a unique set of circumstances: a three-year postdoctoral fellowship and residency in a stately home in the English countryside. The author explains how she harnesses...

...Paul Lauter This article interrogates the meaning of multiculturalism in literary study today, exploring a shift in focus from student-centered to subject-centered course work. It questions how teaching will be affected by efforts to roll back exploitative employment practices like part-time...

... employers. This essay argues that creative education through experiential learning provides important opportunities for students and enhances their development as independent individuals who make their own decisions. To examine the pedagogical benefits that such learning can have in the humanities...

... caught on the battle- field, and discussing disciplinarity and unionization. Stygall TAs and Unionization 9 10 Pedagogy Employment and Complicity in English Reading the decision along with the NLRB s [National Labor Relations Board s] stark, legalistic announcements about the election that were soon...

... Education , 18 December, A12 . MLA Committee on Professional Employment. 1998 .“Final Report.” ADE Bulletin 119 : 27 -45. Nelson, Cary. 1999 . Letter. Chronicle of Higher Education , 19 February, B3 -B4. ———. 2000 . “Graduate Studies and the Job Market.” PMLA 115 : 1200 -1202. Nelson...

... on the Professionalization of PhDs (2003), based on data through the 2001 – 2 academic year, doctoral candidates in language and literature have faced no better than 50/50 odds of finding full-­time profes- sional employment upon graduation since the early 1970s. Statistics reported in Inside Higher Ed indicate...

... the “composition of the faculty and instructional staff in English, 1996 – 97.” The mandate came in response to substantial concerns about the increased use of part-­time non-­tenure-­track labor and the con- sequences of such employment practices for undergraduate education and for the future of tenured...

... production and consump- tion, today’s students often come to college hoping to expend minimal time to accrue maximum capital — grades, future employment, and a salary that allows them to pay off their student loans. As this market logic infuses peda- gogical relationships and shapes classroom community...

... familiar account of the problems that beset the profession, Levine has no alternative but to resort to a set of equally familiar utopian solutions, including a radical transforma- tion in the whole system of graduate training, undergraduate teaching, and professional employment (17). However appealing...

... genuine care and respect for graduate students and his desire to see them succeed despite increasingly depressing odds. Speaking of statistics, Graduate Study does not shy from presenting the bleakest data in the bluntest terms. Roughly 40 percent of PhD job seekers find full-time employment...

... in the country. Here’s how the IUP graduate program describes itself on its website: A recent survey by the Modern Language Association, a professional organization for English teachers, found IUP’s doctoral programs in English among the most successful in employment for its graduates. In 1996 – 97, IUP...

...: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics . London:Verso. ———. 1998 . The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies . New York: New York University Press. Bérubé, Michael, and Cary Nelson, eds. 1995 . Higher Education under Fire: Politics,Economics...

... Committee on Professional Employment” (1998: 36 – 37). It calls attention to what the committee calls a troubling “disparity between the expectations and assumptions about college teaching that most graduate programs inculcate in their PhD candidates and the actual work most of those...

... and study skills programs). English is still the fifth most popular area in terms of university applications, despite massive pressures favoring more apparently vocational subjects. Like all subjects, English has increas- ingly been required to explain itself to potential students and employers...

... . MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession . June 2011 . “ Professional Employment Practices for Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members: Recommendations and Evaluative Questions ,” Modern Language Association , www.mla.org/pdf/clip_stmt_final_may11.pdf . Moten Fred Harney Stefano...

...George Levine © 2001 Duke University Press 2001 Bérubé, Michael. 1998 . The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies . New York: New York University Press. Goodheart, Eugene. 1999 . Does Literary Studies Have a Future? Madison: University...

..., given that Notre Dame is the largest employer in the area and is responsible for attracting substantial tourism annually, particularly related to football (City-Data 2015). These local geographic and institutional contexts shape our work, and that regional identity is further informed...