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

[Anny Ballardini]

This message was sent to me and I thought it would be of interest to someone on this list. The times are what they are Dave, and I do wish you will find a good job able to support you and to pay you back of all what you have done. Society as a whole is not just, within this unjustice I am happy when one of my cultural group finds a better position or better opportunities. I therefore agree with Suzanne's and Mill's comments.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Suzanne Burns 
  To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 4:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] vacancy for a Junior Lecturer in English Studies





  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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