[New-Poetry] vacancy for a Junior Lecturer in English Studies

[Suzanne Burns]

On 8/2/06, millb at aol.com <millb at aol.com> wrote:
>
> This salary seems in line with the ranges that I have seen.  Our neice
> just got hired for a junior tenure track position at Sarah Lawrence and her
> offer was $40,000.
>


Which in this economy (and especially given where she will have to live) is
a very, very modest salary.  (Btw, Limerick is also now a fairly expensive
place to live-- the days of living in Ireland on a shestring are past.  At
the risk of sounding like a bad, bad hippy, the Irish are generally happy
with this development.)

It takes a very long time to get a Ph.D, and those junior positions are hard
work.  Add in the pressures of achieving tenure (or figuring out what the
hell you will do if you don't get tenure) and I would say any offer lower
than this would be outrageous.

I really would love to know where people got this idea that writers,
scholars, poets, etc.  somehow should be required to live outside of
reality.  It sort of goes with that idea that scholars have lots and lots of
leisure time. Please.

Suzanne Burns
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