37.1961, FYI: Invitation: Free Academic Job Market Prep Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students

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Subject: 37.1961, FYI: Invitation: Free Academic Job Market Prep Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students

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Date: 01-Jun-2026
From: Kailyn Rogers [khall112 at utm.edu]
Subject: Invitation: Free Academic Job Market Prep Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students


As you no doubt know, the academic job market has been evolving in the
last few years, and preparing for it is a stressful time for graduate
students and those trying to make moves to new institutions or roles.
This year, some colleagues and I across universities are continuing
our free Zoom workshop series, Jobs in English and Transdisciplinary
Studies (JETS), to help folks across the discipline prepare for the
job market. We’re thrilled to continue the workshop series this summer
with support from a 2026 Conference on College Composition and
Communication Research Initiative Grant! Last year we were thrilled to
have representation from around 30 graduate programs across the world,
and some of our participants from last year have shared successful job
placement stories with us.
We have had participants who are still in coursework and those
starting their market runs as ABDs—we firmly believe that if you’re
planning to pursue a career in academia, no time is too early to start
preparing for the market. Starting early also helps us talk about the
hidden curriculum of the academic job market and expectations of
different kinds of faculty roles in humanities disciplines. Our
workshop leaders have had a variety of job market experiences in
recent years, hold positions at multiple institution types, and our
priority is supporting folks in the discipline no matter what kind of
role they’re searching for. While our primary personal expertise is in
Technical Communication and Rhetoric & Writing Studies in the United
States, our sessions are open to those broadly in the humanities and
social sciences; please share with your colleagues in other humanistic
disciplines as well. We have had multiple previous participants in
Linguistics, TESOL, Education, History, Media Studies, and Literature,
for example and students from those areas have had success placing
with help from our resources.
Basically, we will offer five synchronous Zoom meetings this summer
covering topics like finding and understanding job postings, writing
cover letters and teaching/research statements tailored to the roles
you’re looking for, and preparing for interviews. During each session
we offer plenty of time for Q&A so that we can answer questions based
on our own recent experiences on the job market. Our leaders also work
asynchronously with attendees on job materials. If our meeting times
don't work for folks, everyone on our email list also gets access to
captioned meeting recordings after the fact.
Interested attendees can fill out this form to get on our contact list
for this summer:
https://weber.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4V3yR1FLPtxPNvU.
Access to the registration form can also be found on our website,
https://disseminar.org/jets/. There, you can also find public
resources our team has started developing to assist folks in their job
market preparation. Sessions begin on June 10th and continue through
August, and Zoom links will be emailed to those who register. Again:
this is a FREE Workshop series! If you're a Faculty advisor, please
share widely with those in your programs–we’re excited to provide some
additional support for the students you work with.
Participants this year will also have the opportunity to be part of
our study, supported by the CCCC Research Initiative Grant, to help us
better understand the needs of discipline on the job market.
If you have any questions, they can be directed to Marisa Yerace at
myerace at weber.edu.
Thank you for your time and any interested folks you can send our way.
Warmly,
The JETS Coordinating Team
Marisa Yerace, Weber State University
Kailyn Shartel Rogers (Hall), University of Tennessee-Martin
Allegra W. Smith, Georgia Tech
Nasiba Norova, Metropolitan State University, MN
Bradley Dilger, Purdue University

Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable




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