Useful Links

Professional Development

• Preparing Future Faculty
• National Association of Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS)
• A Few Do's And Don'ts For New Members Of The Adjunct Army

Conferences & Calls for Papers

• Humanities (wide range): see the University of Pennsylvania's electronic mailing list
• Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theory: see listings in PMLA, on line through Duke Library e-journals: http://www.cfplist.com
• H-Net

Information about Jobs Beyond the Academy 

• Brooks, Katharine. 2011. “10 Tips for Developing an Alternate Career While in Graduate School.” Psychology Today.
• Chronicle of Higher Education contains many articles about nonacademic careers, especially under their “Beyond the Ivory Tower” heading
• Debelius, Maggie and Susan Basalla, So What Are You Going to Do with That? 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Dowdall, George, and Jean Dowdall. 2005. “Crossing Over to the Dark Side.”The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 23.
• Finding Careers Outside Academia (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
• "Four Steps to Succeeding Outside the Ivory Tower” (Article from Salon Magazine)
• Lord, Alexandra, “Every Ph.D. Needs a Plan B,” Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 March 2009.
• Vitae Online Career Hub
• Inside HigherEd also contains occasional columns about nonacademic careers
• Leaving Academia blog (Sabine Hikel)
• “Sellout: A Resource for PhDs Considering Careers Beyond the Humanities” is likely the most useful source of links to articles and testimonials about scholars leaving the academy:
• On the ADE webpage, see “Developing a Nonacademic Career”
• See UC-Berkeley’s guide to jobs beyond the academy
• Private School Teaching and Administration
• Technical Writing Jobs
• Business Communication
• National Council of Teachers of English (information about community college, ESL, and high-school teaching jobs)
• Federal Government Jobs (the federal pay scale is based on education level, so the PhD makes applicants eligible for high-paying jobs)
• Non-profit jobs
• Nonprofit Times
• General job search engine
• National Coalition of Independent Scholars

Resources on the Profession

On The University

• Bousquet, Marc.  How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low Wage Nation. New York UP, 2008.
• Ginsberg, Benjamin. 2013. The Fall of the Faculty. Reprint edition. Oxford University Press.
• Inman, James A. 2003. Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options. Mahwah, N.J: Routledge. (on the movement of the university toward digital humanities
• Newfield, Christopher.  Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class.  Harvard UP, 2008.
• Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins.  Harvard UP, 1997.
• Slaughter, Sheila and Gary Rhoades.  Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education.  Johns Hopkins UP, 2009.

Academic Life

• Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.  Women and Minority Faculty in the Academic Workplace: Recruitment, Retention, and Academic Culture.  Jossey-Boss, 2000.
• Bejamin, Lois.  Black Women in the Academy: Promises and Perils.  UP Florida, 1997.
• Blaxter, Loraine, Christina Hughes, and Malcolm Tight. The Academic Career Handbook.  Open University Press, 1998.  [A guide to career strategies for those pursuing a profession in academia, with a focus on Great Britain.]
• Cahn, Steven M. 2008. From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor. Columbia University Press. 
• Caplan, Paula T. Lifting a Ton of Feathers: A Woman’s Guide to Surviving in the Academic World.  U of Toronto P, 1993.
• Dews C. L. Barney and Carolyn Leste Law, eds.  This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class.  Temple UP, 1995.
• Dixson, Adrienne D. 2006. Critical Race Theory in Education: All God’s Children Got a Song. 1 edition. New York: Routledge.
• “Dual-Career Academic Couples | The Clayman Institute for Gender Research.” 2014. Accessed September 26. §  (Includes links to programs with partner hiring/dual-career guidelines)
• Ferber, Marianne A. and Jane W. Loeb.  Academic Couples: Problems and Promises.  U of Illinois, P, 1997.
• Fruscione, Joseph. 2014. “Adjunct Pay and Anger.” Inside Higher Ed.
• Gibson, Gerald W.  Good Start: A Guidebook for New Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges.  Anker Publishing, 1993.
• Gibson, Michelle and Doborah T. Meem, eds.  Lesbian Academic Couples.  Routledge, 2006.
• Green, Anna L., and Reitumetse Mabokela. 2001. Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education. Sterling, Va: Stylus Publishing.
• Jones, Lee.  Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning our Way in Higher Education.  Stylus Publishing, 2000.
• Lang, James M. 2010. Life on the Tenure Track. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Menges, Robert J. and Associates.  Faculty in New Jobs: A Guide to Settling In, Becoming Established, and Building Institutional Support.  Jossey-Boss, 1999.
• Stanley, Christine A.  Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominately White Colleges and Universities.  Jossey-Boss, 2006.
• Toth, Emily. 2012. Ms. Mentor’s Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia. University of Pennsylvania Press.
• Walters, Joanna. 2010. “Degrees of Separation.” The Guardian, March 1, sec. Education. 

The Job Search

• Boufis, Christina and Victoria C. Olsen, eds. On the Market: Surviving the Academic Job Search. Berkeley Publishing Group, 1997.
• Coghill-Behrends, Will, and Rebecca Anthony. 2012. The PhD Handbook for the Academic Job Search: An Owner’s Manual for Finding Jobs. United States: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. 
• DeNeef, A. Leigh, and Craufurd D. Goodwin. 2007. The Academic’s Handbook. 3rd Revised & enlarged edition. Durham: Duke University Press Books.  
• Faktorovich, Anna. 2012. “English Faculty Jobs Abroad.” Inside Higher Ed.  (on the benefits of looking for jobs abroad)
• Forno, Diane and Cheryl Reed.  Job Search in Academe: Strategic Rhetorics for Faculty Job Candidates.  Stylus Publishing, 1999.
• Hume, Kathryn. 2010. Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt: Advice for Humanities PhDs. 2 edition. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs and Maria Lynn Whicker.  Getting an Academic Job: Strategies for Success.  Sage, 1996.
• Newhouse, Margaret.  Cracking the Academia Nut: A Guide to Preparing for Your Academic Career.  Harvard UP, 1997.
• Showalter, Elaine, Howard Figler, Lori G. Kletzer, Jack H. Schuster, and Seth R. Katz, eds.  The MLA Guide to the Job Search: A Handbook for Departments and for PhDs and PhD Candidates in English and Foreign Languages. MLA, 1996.
• Vick, Julia Miller. 2008. The Academic Job Search Handbook, 4th Edition. 4th edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.