CFP: Pacific Northwest Renaissance Conference

Below is a call for papers for a conference that will be held next spring (2009) semester AT MSU.  It is co-hosted by MSU professors Gretchen Minton and Sharon Beehler (our resident Shakespearean specialists).

Be aware that abstracts must be submitted by Monday, October 27th, 2008.

If you would like to see the full version of the call for papers, please click here to download the MS Word file.

Call for Papers:

“Performance of Place / Place of Performance”

 Areas of investigation should reflect the conference theme and might include such general topics as stage venues, textual locales, cartographic sites, travel narratives, social positions, religious rituals, and performed identities.

 

Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for three-paper panels are invited.

Abstracts should run 250 words for papers of 20-minute delivery length.

Panel proposals must include abstracts for all three papers.

Deadline:  Monday, October 27, 2008

Acceptances will be sent by February 2009.

 

Submissions should be sent to:

Professor Gretchen Minton, PNRS President

MSU Department of English

P.O. Box 172300

Bozeman, Montana

59717-2300

minton@english.montana.edu

CFP: Preparing for the Academic Job Search

This call for papers came through the listserv in July, but that list has been so troublesome all summer that I just got to read it today. It may still be open, for those alumni who are looking for jobs in academia. -Becker

Kristina Mesaros is looking for personal accounts of graduate students preparing to enter into the academic job market for the forward to the second edition of Dawn M. Formo and Cheryl Reed’s book Job Search in Academe (Stylus Press, 2007).

The forward to the second edition will focus on graduate students’ perceptions of the approaching academic job search and the pursuit of the tenure-track faculty position. You can be anonymous or named and titled. You may contribute a good quote or a case study. Your only time commitment is your email correspondence with me.

Topics I’m particularly interested in include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Preparation you received for the job search
• Advice your mentors gave you about an academic career
• Impressions of academic positions (teaching, research, publishing, serving on committees, mentoring students)
• Preparation and advice you received for the teaching and service expectations of your first tenure-track position
• Advice your mentors gave you about teaching and publishing while in a
  tenure-track position

Please make informal queries to mesar001@csusm.edu