English Graduate Placement
Welcome to the 2024-25 Placement Canvas. Here you will find links to UT's Placement Guidebooks and other resources. Sample materials from recent PhDs and additional readings can be found under "Files."
Job Search Guides
- “UT English Guide to the Faculty Job Search” (updated Oct. 1, 2021)
- “UT English Guide to Industry and Non-Profit Jobs”
- "Getting a Job at an Independent (Prep) School"
- Getting Started with Carney-Sandoe (More Prep School advice)
Actual Interview Questions (2020 onward)
Essays and advice
Graduate School Office of Career and Life Design
- 1:1 Career Advising appointment for Graduate Students
- Career Workshops
- Sample application materials
- Job search
Faculty/Postdoc/Education Administration Search Sites
- MLA Job Information List
- Chronicle Vitae
- Higher Ed Recruitment Consortium
- Academic Jobs Online
- Inside Higher Ed Careers
- Higher Ed Jobs
- jobs.ac.uk (international)
- Faculty Vacancies (international)
- Euraxess (Europe and the UK)
- HookedIn: online community for UT Alumni
- Carney Sandoe & Associates: recruitment agency for faculty and administrative jobs in independent, private, boarding, and charter schools across the US and internationally (the service is free for applicants)
Recommended Books
- Susan Basalla and Maggie Debelius, “So What Are You Going to Do with That?” Finding Careers Outside of Academia, 3rd (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
- Leonard Cassuto and Robert Weisbuch, The New PhD: How to Build a Better Graduate Education (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
- Christopher Caterine, Leaving Academia: A Practical Guide (Princeton UP, 2020)
- Karen Kelsey, The Professor Is In (Three Rivers Press, 2015)
- R. Nelson, Navigating the Path to Industry: A Hiring Manager’s Advice for Academics Looking for a Job in Industry (San Diego: Annorlunda, 2014)
- Katina Rogers, Putting the Humanities PhD to Work: Thriving In and Beyond the Classroom (Duke UP, 2020)
Career Development Resources/Websites
- Humanities Commons
- Ask a Manager
- Beyond Managing
- Cheeky Scientist
- Humanities without Walls
- Imagine PhD
- MLA’s Connected Academics
- The Professor Is In
- The Versatile PhD
Podcasts
Advice for Other Proposals (Postdoc, Book Prospectus)
- Professor is In Postdoc Advice
- Professor is In Book Proposal Advice
- Thinking Like Your Editor by Susan Rabiner and Alfred Fortunato is more explicitly oriented toward trade books that academic publishing, but has great advice (especially as academic presses are under increasing pressure to be commercially successful)