Each summer, some Disseminar members come together to run a free Zoom workshop series for academic job seekers in our field.
Jobs in English and Transdisciplinary Studies, or JETS, consists of five meetings focusing on different aspects of the English academic job market, from deciding which jobs to apply for to preparing for interviews. New in 2025, we are adding to this existing work with a group peer review and an annotated bibliography of studies on the academic job market.
We know that there are sometimes gaps or oversights in job market preparation for English PhDs; we also know that this already-competitive market is continuing to change year by year. For those reasons, we aim to:
- Offer advice using long-term experience mentoring job-seekers but centering recent experiences of job-seekers, and
- Build a network of support across institutions and subdisciplines.
As of Spring 2026, JETS has secured a Research Initiative Grant from the Conference on College Composition and Communication to formally study the English academic job market—and figure out how to better support those job-seekers. We will provide modest compensation to recent job-seekers who are willing to share their stories with us.
✈️ Your 2025 JETS contributors are:
Dr. Marisa Yerace, Assistant Professor, Weber State University (Primary contact: myerace@weber.edu)
Dr. Kailyn Shartel Rogers, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee-Martin
Dr. Allegra W. Smith, Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Dr. Bradley Dilger, Professor, Purdue University