Course Syllabus
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)
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, 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