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"Let's not live up to this site's now not-so-recent poor reputation as a hot bed of white nationalists, racists, misogynists and bigots! Many are likely not a part of our community, but some probably are."
ReplyDeleteOh please, the commenters in the waning days of Famae Volent I and Famae Volent II were hardly any of the things enumerated above. Now we have Famae Volent III: Reign of the Wokescolds. Yaaawn.
If you're not happy with it, you can just take your MCGA rubbish elsewhere. I for one welcome the moderation.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that anyone had a problem with moderation at the original FV. As long as the moderators here take the same approach as the Servii, it should be fine.
ReplyDeleteIt's well into September, any gossip yet? Fake searches and inside candidates? Unqualified diversity hires on the market waiting in the wings to nab all the jobs? Senior faculty who like to play Make America Grope Again with their grad students? Let's get this show on the road!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting that both Haverford and Holy Cross are running searches whose ads seem to fit the research profiles of current VAPs (both are also undergraduate alums of the respective institutions). The extra-short timeline of the HC job is also very fishy in this regard. The Haverford job seems more legit. Obviously apply to both, but I wouldn't get one's hopes up.
DeleteAgreed about Haverford. It would be odd to hire another Hellenist (the VAP is a Hellenist-reception person), rather than a Latinist, no?
DeleteDo people know of what other jobs we should expect to see this year? Also, whoever manages the Wiki (I know that we can all edit it), but would it be possible to add a separate section for alt-academic/non-academic posts like the Harvard Program Coordinator link? It would also be great to see more of these added to the list generally.
ReplyDeleteHi, yes--that's a good idea. Let's try it as an experiment and see how it goes? I've just added a section, but haven't populated it with anything yet.
DeleteI thought we were supposed to have a new thread every month?
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have added a new thread now.
DeleteI'm not sure it makes sense to have a new thread every month--I know it got tedious scrolling through pages and pages, but it was also helpful to see an ongoing/developing conversation. Months are not really logical or natural divisions for the job calendar--maybe something larger scale, like "TT application season" (Aug-Nov), "Interviews/Visits/Offers" (Dec-March), "Non-TT season/TT postmortem" (April ff.). My sense would be that the most posts come in the Dec-March range anyway, and that there tend to be a lot of big-picture questions explored at that time, so it might be nice to have one large thread. Just a suggestion--perhaps something to try next year if monthly threads turn out to be annoying.
DeleteAll those wondering about St. Mary's : Apparently those self-identity forms only indicated the end of a stage in the search, but nothing more. They must have been sent to all applicants as a way of gathering data. I was asked for one but none of my referees were contacted. The wiki now shows that letters of req were requested on 10/23
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