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jawnbcMy ambition has caught up with me; the next month is gonna be rather stressful. No, not the wedding--that’s mostly dealt with. It’s work stuff, mostly self-inflicted.
To secure a tenure-track position at a really good university requires:
~ proper credentials (a PhD from a noteworthy uni. Check);
~ significant university teaching experience, ideally including some graduate-level courses (lots of undergrad and enough grad teaching. Check);
~ a record of securing competitive research funds (mostly internal schemes, but also 3 very competitive fellowships. Check); and
~ publishing in scholarly spheres, mostly peer-reviewed (journals, refereeed proceedings, reviews, university press books).
This last one is not an area where I’ve been deficient. In fact, my publishing record’s very good for someone not even 2 years past defending his dissertation. Still, that ole feast-or-famine mentality periodically leads me to put my hand up whenever someone’s looking for papers in my field(s). But I always forget that my stuff is very nearly always accepted--I still work from a “most folks get rejected, just give it a go” standpoint.
A year ago I proposed to 2 different adult education journals special editions on HIV/AIDS. One journal is truly global and the focus of that one is HIV/AIDS in the majority world (a/k/a developing world). The other journal is Americo-ethnocentric, though they seem to forget that Canada isn’t part of the US--a good thing for Canucks wanting to publish there. I pitched both ideas, assuming a junior academic like me might luck out and get one to fly.
They both be flyin’. And both be due right about . . . now!
Editorial work certainly helps me improve my own writing. It allows me to see the formative process of some really bright people, rather than only the end-product. It also reveals that some people who can’t right for shit are getting their shit published way more than me. So far today’s 3 articles are 1 Wow, 1 Woo hoo and 1 Howdafookdidyougetadoctorate.
So I’d better go let them each now, so they can get their revisions to me ASAP.
PS I then have to edit one of my articles for the US one...pot calling the kettle black
On a wholly unrelated note, I finally tracked down a copy of Ulysses![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
danbearnyc. Just started reading a memoir of Edward Said’s, and will give his royal Bloomness a go come the weekend.
To secure a tenure-track position at a really good university requires:
~ proper credentials (a PhD from a noteworthy uni. Check);
~ significant university teaching experience, ideally including some graduate-level courses (lots of undergrad and enough grad teaching. Check);
~ a record of securing competitive research funds (mostly internal schemes, but also 3 very competitive fellowships. Check); and
~ publishing in scholarly spheres, mostly peer-reviewed (journals, refereeed proceedings, reviews, university press books).
This last one is not an area where I’ve been deficient. In fact, my publishing record’s very good for someone not even 2 years past defending his dissertation. Still, that ole feast-or-famine mentality periodically leads me to put my hand up whenever someone’s looking for papers in my field(s). But I always forget that my stuff is very nearly always accepted--I still work from a “most folks get rejected, just give it a go” standpoint.
A year ago I proposed to 2 different adult education journals special editions on HIV/AIDS. One journal is truly global and the focus of that one is HIV/AIDS in the majority world (a/k/a developing world). The other journal is Americo-ethnocentric, though they seem to forget that Canada isn’t part of the US--a good thing for Canucks wanting to publish there. I pitched both ideas, assuming a junior academic like me might luck out and get one to fly.
They both be flyin’. And both be due right about . . . now!
Editorial work certainly helps me improve my own writing. It allows me to see the formative process of some really bright people, rather than only the end-product. It also reveals that some people who can’t right for shit are getting their shit published way more than me. So far today’s 3 articles are 1 Wow, 1 Woo hoo and 1 Howdafookdidyougetadoctorate.
So I’d better go let them each now, so they can get their revisions to me ASAP.
PS I then have to edit one of my articles for the US one...pot calling the kettle black
On a wholly unrelated note, I finally tracked down a copy of Ulysses
danbearnyc. Just started reading a memoir of Edward Said’s, and will give his royal Bloomness a go come the weekend.
