Discourse Chronicle

Thank you very much for your application to the Department of English. We received a surprisingly large pool of excellent applications and the department’s Executive Committee reviewed each one carefully. Our decision had to be based primarily on the fit between applicants’ experience and our immediate teaching needs for the coming academic year. I regret to tell you, that we will not be able to offer you a teaching contract for the academic year 2007-2008.

[Lecturing in the English department next year was my backup plan in case no PhD program admitted me for next fall. However, since I am accepted into Bowling Green State University for Rhetoric and Writing, this rejection is painless. BK]

category: Life, Rejections