>In the past few years, SFU has graduated a fair number of MA and PhD
>students who specialized in Rhetoric & Writing. Both PhDs have acquired
>permanent jobs (in a medical school and a faculty of applied sciences). At
>least a couple of the MAs also acquired permanent fulltime jobs. And I
>believe all the MAs have found considerable work teaching writing. Despite
>last year's extraordinary political chaos, we expect to graduate at least
>two more PhDs and an MA in the next year or two. (By the way, the SFU's
>political conflicts seem well on the way to resolution; colleagues are
>collegial again, and I'm hopeful all major outstanding conflicts (e.g.,
>over the graduate program) will be resolved in the next two to four months.)
>
>Rick
>
Amanda,
I have been on-line looking at jobs in the Chronical of Higher Education
and noticed a huge demand for composition and rhetoric tenure track
positions in the States - as well, they cross many boundaries from
communications and professional faculties to the traditional English
departments.
I think there is ample evidence for a "market" - what it actually means
or calls for is another thing - is it mainly teachers of writing or
....? perhaps american members can identify or decode these implications.
Kathryn ( fresh hot off the press PhD)
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Kathryn Alexander, Ph.D.
Faculty of Education,
Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada
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