An announcement this important deserves one of those cool author pastiche things that I sometimes do, but sadly I just don't have the time to do it right. I'll settle for this: on Friday, I was offered my first tenure track job. This morning, I accepted. It's at Gordon College, a school that's like Wheaton in most of the good ways, and unlike Wheaton in many of the bad ways. (As I was talking to the dean about the Gramm situation at Wheaton, her first response was, can we hire him?) Several core faculty are retiring in the next couple of years, so the department is transitioning from older to much younger--there'll be ample opportunity to teach literary theory and other classes of interest. The hardest part will be starting to think of myself as a professor, and not just a graduate student. So that's the short version.
Since I'll be working 5 minutes from Dave's house, chances are good that the T6 ECLAD (hmmm... what did that stand for? Experiment in Communal Living and Discipleship... that sounds like it might be right. At least I hit all the letters.) will be in Boston. Coye can work at Harvard (or Boston College, in a pinch), and the rest of you can find work doing the things that you do. So, that's the new plan. Feel free to join us (it's way better than LA, or so I've been told).
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Congrats on the position! I've been contemplating moving home ever since my last relationship cracked up, so don't be shocked if I turn up within the next few years.
And one more thing: There are already three T6ers in DC. When I was there, we totaled 4, so there was already a southern ECLAD movement of sorts.
Wow. Congratulations, Andy. A tenure track offer for your post-doc is impressive. I am, to be perfectly clear, impressed but not surprised. You do good work, and you do it at all hours of the day and night.
Do you start in the fall? If so, are you going to be finishing a couple of chapters from MASS, or did you manage an equally impressive writing speed for the dis?
The reasons for visiting New England keep piling up. I might need to go see some foliage...
awesome.... I'm leaving Nashville at the end of this month....adios music city...hello sunny beaches of FL.
Are you selling your house, Dusty?
Hooray! Let's keep upgrading the common wealth!
yep, selling the house...saying adios and off for a new adventure!
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