3.506 Ph.D.s (50)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 27 Sep 89 17:34:28 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 506. Wednesday, 27 Sep 1989.


(1) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 09:09:48 EDT (12 lines)
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.496 Ph.D.s and more about Humanist (107)

(2) Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 23:03:11 EDT (18 lines)
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: Ph.Ds and jobs? (17 lines)

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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 89 09:09:48 EDT
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.496 Ph.D.s and more about Humanist (107)


To Donald spaeth,
It seems to me that you ought to be willing to live with a second-best
solution for you (really a minor inconvenience) so that others can have
something that they benefit from. If you like you can think of it as
an experimental use of computers in the humanities in its own right.


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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 89 23:03:11 EDT
From: Stephen Clausing <SCLAUS@YALEVM>
Subject: Ph.Ds and jobs? (17 lines)

As an Assitant Professor at a university (Yale) that categorically denies
tenure to junior faculty, I too am interested to see if jobs in the Humanities
will soon start sprouting like wild flowers. However, I am more concerned with
the job market at hand, particularly since I will once again begin the annual
trek to the MLA (Modern Language Association) conference in search of a job.
HUMANIST is a forum of Humanists in Computing. My question to all of you is:
are there actually jobs for such people? I don't mean administrative
positions, I mean faculty jobs. My experience with the field of Languages and
Literatures has been that the vast majority of jobs in that area are for
literature specialists. At best, reference is made in the job description to
"experience with CAI", usually as the 6th of eight desirable qualifications.
Maybe I am trekking to the wrong conference. Is there anything else out there
or is this just a hobby for tenured faculty? What can a computer programmer
with a Ph.D. in some field of Humanities actually do?