English Graduate Placement

Actual Interview Questions (2020 onward)

Inside Higher Ed article on hybrid positions in higher ed

Texas Career Engagement -  UT's Career Services Hub

• 1:1 Career Advising Appointments 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, 3^rd (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

•  Cheeky Scientists Radio
• PhD Futures Now
• The Professor is In