Comments | nativeinformant: Movin' on up

nativeinformant

Movin' on up

Mar 28, 2008 13:27

Hi all. Or perhaps I should say y'all. or actually "all y'all," which is, according to trivial pursuit, the official plural of y'all. Anyway, the point of the post: I wanted to let everyone know that my job hunt has been successful and as of the fall, I will be Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at Texas A&M University. Texas ( Read more... )

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Heya! anonymous April 5 2008, 04:49:48 UTC

Now why didn't Prometheus have such purty professors when he went ta school?

Re: Heya! nativeinformant April 14 2008, 21:50:25 UTC

aw, thanks!

congrats constans April 12 2008, 22:22:21 UTC

Congrats on becoming a real, live professor!

Re: congrats nativeinformant April 14 2008, 21:55:30 UTC

Thanks! I didn't know you were (sorta) on LJ...

congrats! anonymous April 14 2008, 19:58:59 UTC

yay! what a relief!!!

tina

Texas A&M anonymous April 16 2008, 02:22:19 UTC

I came across your blog by accident, but I couldn't help but chime in. I'm currently an ABD grad student at Texas A&M, and, like you, I was a bit weirded out by the whole environment. I think you'll find, though, that there are lots of smart and "normal" people that live out here. Congratulations on the new job!

Re: Texas A&M nativeinformant April 16 2008, 02:33:31 UTC

cool. what department? do you also do work on the Gulf?

Re: Texas A&M anonymous April 16 2008, 14:31:30 UTC

I'm in the English dept--and, no, I don't work on the gulf. Right now I'm working on 16th-century women writers in England and on the continent--and I *do* have ties to the Women's Studies program.

anonymous May 31 2008, 16:17:43 UTC

an assistant professor at an American university without a PhD?

nativeinformant May 31 2008, 17:21:53 UTC

the job is of course contingent on the phD, but my dissertation is finished and the university I am at, once you file, you lose your health care, housing, etc, so filing before you know where you are going is not practical.