SPEP Reflections
As someone who couldn't make it to SPEP I'd be intrigued to hear any post-meeting reflections from those of you who were there. It's been a few years since I've been to SPEP: what's the buzz there these days? What's "hot"? What are some of the discussions?
I'd look forward to some reports from the front.
New (october) JFP is out
looks pretty decent. villanova has the one ad for a senior continentalist — now listed as a full OR associate professor.
strong AOS continental jobs (including all the specific ads for hegel, 19th-20th century french or german, etc.) at binghamton, colby, cornell, fordham, university of maine, georgia state, oglethorpe, memphis, university of central florida, grand valley state, notre dame, northwestern, and washington state. please feel free to note any i've left out. there are also a few other positions like duquesne (ancient) that list continental as their top AOC.
so who do we have on the market this year? ammon, greg, adam, seth? tim? anybody know darin and steve finn's status? any other abd's we have that would be going out (matt groe or josh maybe)? let us know if there's any way we can help!
if anyone has any information that might be helpful for our folks, please post it below.
EDITED to add:
not a lot of activity for continental hires in the last month, but new postings online include lebanon valley (?), harvard (kant+19th), and montreal.
next jfp (168) should be out in a day or two — publication date is listed as november 10th.
ammon, did you see the new positions in aesthetics (e.g. an AOS at lafayette college)?
Devacuation...
An update on my status:
On Tuesday, my Father and I drove down to New Orleans to survey the situation/get some of my things. We left St. Louis (where I am staying for the time being) at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, drove to N.O., did our thing, and then drove straight back to St. Louis, arriving at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday. Quite a trip...
Anyway, in New Orleans we found that, happily, my apartment got through the hurricane and aftermath relatively unscathed. The only real issue was with my refrigerator, which was a bit gross (the freezer was filled with maggots that froze when the power went back on last week), but it cleaned up ok. All of the windows etc. were intact. Loyola's campus was also in pretty good shape, and I was able to recover things from my office with relative ease.
As for the rest of the area: our travels were pretty much restricted to the Uptown area of New Orleans, which fared the best overall. Things looked pretty good, all things considered. The most striking thing was that there were literally hundreds of refrigerators sitting by the side of the road. Presumably, people came back to clean up and found that their fridges were so gross that they decided to throw them away. Aside from that, there was just downed limbs, a few uprooted trees, and relatively minor wind damage. Of course, I didn't go to the areas that really flooded...
