Analyzes recent trends in the placement of English PhDs as professional teachers and university personnel. Provides data from the Modern Language Association's study of the 1991-92 placement activities at member institutions. (HB)

Offers statistics on employment placement as reported by PhD-granting English departments in United States universities. Discusses the departments surveyed and number of doctoral recipients reported, their placement in and outside higher education, numbers of PhDs awarded to men and women and their placement, numbers and placements of minorities,…

A survey of the 928 1979-80 English doctorate recipients revealed that 62% had full-time teaching positions, although only 45% of males and 37% of females received full-time tenure track positions; 11% had part-time teaching appointments or postdoctoral fellowships; and 13% had alternative work. (AEA)

Among the results of a study of the employment of the 955 English doctorate recipients in 1978-79 were that 60 percent found full-time teaching positions, although only 46 percent of males and 35 percent of females received full-time, tenure-track positions; 12 percent found part-time teaching appointments or postdoctoral fellowships; and 16…

A survey of approximately 800 English doctorate recipients for 1981-82 revealed that 59.7 percent had full-time teaching positions, a slight decline from the 61.2 percent in 1976-77, the first year the survey was initiated. Employment outside of teaching was larger than in 1976-77. (AEA)

Considers and analyzes the findings of the Modern Language Association's survey of the changes from 1990 to 1994 in faculty size of doctorate-granting departments of modern language. (HB)

Presents the findings of the Modern Language Association's survey of the changes from 1990 to 1994 in faculty size in doctorate-granting departments of modern language. (HB)