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Graduate Resources

This page contains Graduate Student Resources in general and those relevant to the field of Early American Studies to approximately 1830. Please click on the links below to locate a resource. Thank you.

Resources for the Academic Job Search

Academic Careers Online

Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs

Higher Ed Jobs

Humanities-Related Employment, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

Modern Language Association Job List

“The Hiring Process From The Other Side,” University of California, Berkeley, Career Center

The Humanities PhD Project, University of Michigan

General Resources for Job Searching and Thinking about the Academic Profession

Resources compiled by Dr. Lisa Logan, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida, English and Women’s Studies 4/18/2007

Berube, Michael. The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies. New York: New York UP, 1998.
Formo, Dawn M. and Cheryl Reed. Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates. Virginia: Stylus, 1998.
Goldsmith, John A., John Komlos, Penny Schine Gold. The Chicago Guide to Your Academic Career: A Portable Mentor for Scholars from Graduate School Through Tenure. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001.
Heiberger, Mary Morris, and Julia Miller Vick. The Academic Job Search Handbook, 2nd ed. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1996.
Hall, Donald E. The Academic Self: An Owner’s Manual. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2002.
_____. Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2001.
Nelson, Cary. Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Showalter, English, et al. The MLA Guide to the Job Search: A Handbook for Departments and Ph.D.s and Ph.D. Candidates in English and the Foreign Languages. New York: Modern Language Association, 1996.
Toth, Emily. Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997.

Please note: New Sources are Forthcoming, thank you!


 

 

 

 

Sequoyah

Se-quo-yah

R. T. Se-quo-yah. 1838. Published in Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, 3 vols., Philadelphia, 1837-1844. Hand-colored lithograph. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Hannah Foster. The Boarding School

Foster, The Boarding School

[Foster, Mrs. Hannah (Webster)]. The Boarding School: Or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils ... Boston: G. P. Peaslee, 1829. HathiTrust. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

The history of the New-York African free-schools

The history of the New-York African free-schools

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. “The history of the New-York African free-schools, from their establishment in 1787, to the present time…” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1830. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship

Specimens of Penmanship from Writing Schools in Boston, 1748-1782. Cooper, John. Earthly treasure : autograph manuscript, 1771. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Colonial North America at Harvard Library. To view the full image, please click here or on the thumbnail.