Courses

Professor Jenny Davidson will offer a pilot version of a year-long seminar (2 points per semester) that will consider the topic of what kinds of work graduate students in literature learn how to do as they progress towards their degrees and what kinds of employment that work may prepare them for going forward.  A significant number of our meetings will involve visits from established professionals in various fields (examples: nonprofit work, from higher education research to arts foundations and so forth; the writing industry around financial institutions and law firms, including paralegal options; professional grant-writing; independent school hiring agencies such as Carney Sandoe; public school teaching certification).  They will talk to us about the soft and hard skills they seek when they’re hiring, and what you might do while you are still enrolled as a full-time student to put yourself in a position to be a plausible job candidate after you are no longer enrolled in graduate study.