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Diary of a Visiting Assistant Professor, week 2. In which I discuss teaching

I taught a lot as a graduate student. I twice TA’d for a large survey course, but most of my classes were independent: I taught lots of first-year writing classes and a couple introductory literature courses, so I’m pretty comfortable putting together syllabi, choosing readings, designing assignments, and tasks of that sort. My course load
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Diary of a Visiting Assistant Professor, Week 1: in which I don’t panic

Last week I introduced the idea behind this project, and I’ll post twice this week: this post will focus on getting settled; on Thursday I’ll post about my first week teaching and first faculty meeting. I hope all departments are as friendly as this one. I have felt very welcome, and just about every member
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