Dear Otfried
As a non-specialist member of the italian-studies list, may I say that
it
is an outstandingly interesting list compared with the others I deal
with (my main freelance activity is running email lists and giving
briefings
on them) and that you couldn't find a better way of networking within
the profession.
As a former staff development coordinator in HE it may be worth my
mentioning that there are more ways than one to continue an academic
career; for example there are openings in the UK for language
specialists
in the areas of teacher training/language centres/departments of
continuing
education as well as Italian departments. These could all allow some
research to be continued and valued.
All academic jobs in UK are advertised in the Times Higher and there is
also a HE website: http://www.jobs.ac.uk but I'm sure you know about
these
already.
Best wishes
Andrew Jameson
Listowner, cont-ed-lang and russian-teaching
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> From: Otfried Lieberknecht <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: JOBS: No jobs anymore in Italian Studies...
> Date: 16 April 1998 22:35
>
> Dear all,
>
> Assuming that most of you have recovered from Easter and from
immoderate
> consummation of chocolate and of eggs:
>
> Some of you may wonder why I did not pursue my usual habit of
forwarding
> job advertisements from various electronic and other resources to
this
> list. It is not that I am too lazy or too busy with other things
(although
> both descriptions most times match), but the true and sad reason is
that
> there seem to be no academic job-openings for Italian advertised
anywhere
> in the world. The job-market for Italian was never really an exciting
> market, but I don't think it was ever as depressing as in these days.
> Sometimes I get the impression that Italian Studies exist only in my
dreams
> and, virtually, on this list (and this list, too, has done better in
the
> past to feed my illusions...). Is our area of teaching and research a
shop
> maintained by its present owners only to be closed soon, with no need
for a
> next generation, or to be sold out to up-coming competitors like
'ethnic
> studies'? Or is it old-fashioned to expect that free academic
positions are
> advertised publicly? I am, of course, mostly concerned about my own
future,
> about the little of it which at the quasi-biblical age of almost
fourty is
> left, but while I may appear to be old and rusty iron, easy to be
> dismissed, what about all the graduate and post-grad students in your
> departments: young iron, forged only to be thrown away? Could anybody
maybe
> give a more comforting description of the situation, some personal
> observations or hope inspiring statistical figures, whatever, if it
is only
> appropriate to put my heart and the hearts of my poor fellows in
> unemployment to rest?
>
> Otfried
>
>
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