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This is a pretty specific question, but I imagine you'll know the answer: what's Michael McKeon's reputation like in the field of British literary studies? I'm curious because I'm taking a grad class with him in the Fall (but am myself from another discipline, hence my lack of knowledge about his reputation), and people seem to speak of him with awe.
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I also followed this thread with great interest as I finished my own PhD in another humanities discipline and struggled through the brutal job market. I think I'm going to be working pretty close to where you went to grad school, Brainworm. I'll be at a small college that claims one of the nation's founders as one of its titular founders. Sorry to by cryptic, but you'll know the place I mean. I'm really excited about it.
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With all this talk about revoking tenure, I'd like to flip the focus to ask about granting it. I'm going up for tenure at an institution which resembles yours in a discipline which is relatively closely related to yours. I've got a very strong record on scholarship and teaching and a fine enough record on service, so I'm not trying to hide any shortcomings. But it does feel in some ways like I'm sending my portfolio into a great unknown where it will be discussed and voted on in ways that nobody at my institution seems able, or at least willing, to talk clearly about. And of course there is the alarming ability of academics to take the tiniest piece of evidence, fixate on it to the exclusion of everything else, and use it to justify whatever they want. I've seen that happen at meetings too often not to have nightmares about it happening in tenure deliberations. So what's it like at the departmental and college-wide level when you're considering tenure cases? How much do institutional and personal politics (which I imagine are fraught at your institution, like pretty much everywhere) enter into deliberations? Do your have any tips for crafting the narratives portion of the portfolio or anything else about the process? p.s. I've been following this thread with interest since the beginning of grad school, though I haven't been an active participant in it.
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Thanks for the tips -- it's always good to get an insider perspective on the process!
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