Daily Archives: 6 April 2016

Instructor @ English Dept. Arizona State University – Call For Applications

Instructor
Arizona State University, Department of English
Position Type: Non tenure-track faculty
Position Location: Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
Subject Areas: English / Linguistics, Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, Film and Media Studies, English Education, Literature, Second Language Writing, Developmental Writing, Disciplinary Writing, Workplace Writing, Academic Writing
Application Deadline: 2016/04/22

The Department of English on the Tempe Campus at Arizona State University invites applications for the position of Instructor. The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses primarily in the Writing Program and in other disciplinary areas within the department as needed. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible appointment made on an academic year basis. A typical full-time course load is five classes per semester. Subsequent annual renewal is possible contingent upon satisfactory performance, the needs of the unit, availability of resources, and sufficient enrollment in assigned courses. Anticipated start date is August 2016.

Minimum qualifications: MA or MFA in Creative Writing, Film & Media Studies, English Education, Linguistics, Literature, Rhetoric & Composition or related discipline; three years’ experience in higher education teaching composition courses, and evidence of effective teaching.

Desired qualifications: PhD or evidence of graduate coursework beyond the Master’ level in the areas listed above; experience teaching at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum; evidence of experience in both theory and practice within a writing intensive field, such as: academic writing, creative writing, developmental writing, disciplinary writing, second language writing, and workplace writing; evidence of participation in disciplinary conferences or other relevant professional development; evidence of experience teaching multi-media composing or online/hybrid courses.

For full details and to apply, please visit: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7160

Objects and Possessions: Material Goods in a Changing World 1200‒1800 – Call For Papers

Objects and Possessions: Material Goods in a Changing World 1200‒1800
University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus
3-6 April, 2017

Conference Website

Our keynote speakers include Dr Chris Briggs (Cambridge), Professor Giorgio Riello (Warwick) and Professor James Walvin (York)

This interdisciplinary conference looks at material culture across a long timeframe in order to explore the worlds of goods and objects across Europe and its overseas colonies, the connections and relationships facilitated by the exchange of goods, the importance and interpretation of the inheritance of goods and objects, and the ways in which goods brokered relationships between Europe and the wider world in the period.

The aim is to deepen our understanding of how goods ‘worked’ in a variety of social, economic and cultural contexts. We know a great deal about real property and the possession of land, but comparatively little about goods and chattels and their connections, and how these developed across a long timeframe. Over the period 1200‒1800 there were great changes in the type, range and availability of goods, from the finest items of the elite, the work of craftsmen on an individual basis, to the manufacture and widespread availability of cheap and utilitarian goods and equipment.

Customs of ‘possession’ need to be exposed, to show what ownership might mean, what property might be held by women or children, and what might be considered inalienable within families. The conference will look to identify the cultural connections – and how goods and attitudes to them change culture. It will also consider how goods were transferred, exchanged and collected, as well as the ways in which objects could be used to mediate connections and broker relationships between different people and places.

Proposals are invited for single papers and for whole sessions (three papers). Papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Themes might include:

  • The ownership of goods; the law and objects
  • Patterns of inheritance for different categories
  • The connections of different groups in society to goods, for example, domestic equipment, jewellery, textiles
  • The introduction of new goods, fashions and colours
  • The increasing quantities and diversity of goods
  • Furnishings for household interiors
  • Consumer revolutions (e.g. sugar, colour, fur)
  • Vocabularies for describing goods
  • Trades and markets for goods
  • Processes of collecting and accumulation
  • The politics of possession and display

We are now inviting proposals for papers for single papers and for whole sessions (three papers) – papers should not exceed 30 minutes. Short abstracts (no more than 200 words per paper) should be sent to Chris Woolgar (C.M.Woolgar@soton.ac.uk) by 12 September, 2016.