A Note About the Sample CVs That Follow
The following examples, generously volunteered by real candidates, are provided to give you an idea of what such materials look like. Please note that to preserve anonymity:
• The names of job candidates, their advisors, committee members, and coauthors have been changed or removed.
• Addresses, emails, and phone numbers have been modified.
• Some dates have also been changed.
• The name of a candidate’s most recent institution has been changed to something like University of X, University of Y, X University, or some similar name. Other than that we have tried to alter these CVs as little as possible.
Condensing the samples allows for more samples to be included here. In order to save space, some of the lists of presentations, publications, honors and awards, activities, and so on, have been truncated. To be clear, if a section has been shortened there will be a note in brackets e.g., [Two additional presentations follow.]. The length of the original document is provided.
The sample CVs are arranged by broad field: Humanities, Social Sciences, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), Arts, and Professional (disciplines where professional practice as well as research and teaching are an intrinsic part). If the applicant has accepted a position, brief information about the type of institution is also provided. A brief note about the candidate’s search situation or a note about the CV is included in some of the samples.
These examples should be regarded as excellent, but not necessarily perfect. They are not all in the same format, and they do not all subscribe to the same stylistic conventions, so you can see there are many ways to construct a good CV. And a caveat is that some may be very discipline-specific. The custom in your own field, or an unusual combination of strengths in your background, might well dictate that your CV should be quite different in style, language, or appearance. Don’t attempt to copy any single example. Rather, look at all of them to see which forms of presentation might suit your own taste or situation.
Humanities Ph.D. CV. Accepted tenure-track position at large private research-intensive institution. Original document was four pages.
Curriculum Vitae
Madison Candidate
| Department of Comparative Literature | Phone: 222.111.6666 |
| Address | E-mail: [email protected] |
EDUCATION
University of X, City, State.
Candidate for Ph.D., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, expected May 2012
M.A., Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, December 2008.
Certificate in College and University Teaching, January 2011
Dissertation: Communal Song and the Theology of Voice in German Mysticism, 1150-1750. This dissertation argues that speculative mysticism was historically accompanied by the invention of worship practices designed to promote group ecstatic experience. Famous mystical theologians such as Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, and Jakob Böhme inspired a transformation of worship practices. Consideration of these communal mystical practices drives a reevaluation of the mystic as solitary contemplative individual, in favor of a subject whose access to the divine is mediated by experience of the other.
Dissertation Advisor: Name
Committee Members: Name, Name, Name
AAA College, City, State.
M.A., Comparative Literature, June 2006.
Thesis: Narrative Structures and Productive Contradiction in Perceval and Parzival. This thesis analyzes the structural use of paradox and contradiction in Chrétien de Troyes’ Perceval and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, arguing that Wolfram correctly identifies the use of contradiction in Chrétien’s narrative, but modifies its operation within the narrative to create the productive paradox necessary for the symbolic consummation of the Grail history and evangelism.
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
B.A., European Studies and Music History, magna cum laude, 2005.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
DAAD Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009-2010
Wolfenbüttel Summer School and Stipend, Herzog August Bibliothek, August 2009
Graduate Student Essay Prize, South-Eastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, March 2009
[Seven additional fellowships and awards listings follow.]
PUBLICATIONS
“The Trouble with Verbs: Meister Eckhart and the Tropology of Modistic Grammar.” Mystics Quarterly, Sep-Dec 2009, Vol. 35 Issue 3/4. 99-126.
“Prelude to the New World: The Role of Voice in Early Pennsylvanian Mysticism.” Eighteenth-Century Studies. Forthcoming.
“Würzburg.” Translator for Horst Brunner. In Regeneration: a Literary History of Europe, 1348-1418. Ed. David Wallace. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
TALKS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
“Kissing the Pagan: Unity, Identity, and the Failure of Metaphysical Community in Willehalm.” Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2011.
“Liturgy and the Communal Subject.” International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture. Oxford University. September 2010.
“Discernment of Spirits: Inventing Religious Genre in the Late Middle Ages.” Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress. Kalamazoo, MI. May 2009.
[Two additional international conference talks follow.]
TALKS – GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCES
“Meister Eckhart’s Daughter?” Mater(ia) Familias: Medievalists@University of X Graduate Student Conference. City, State. April 2011.
“The Subject in Practice: Jakob Böhme, Psychoanalysis, and the Power of Prayer.” English Department Medieval/Renaissance Colloquium. University of X, City, State. October 2010.
“Körper, Leib, Mutterleib: Body and the Place of Intersubjectivity.” German Department Colloquium. University of X, City, State. September 2010.
“Liturgical Renewal as Spiritual Renewal: a Fifteenth-century Hymnary from the Dominican Convent Adelhausen.” Rethinking Liturgy Postgraduate Conference. Queen Mary College, University of London. June 2010.
[Ten additional graduate student conference talks follow.]
CONFERENCES AND COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED
“Per Speculum in Mediaevum: Discourses of Mirroring in the Middle Ages.” (with Leif Weatherby and Courtney Rydel), Medievalists @ University of X Graduate Student Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 6-7, 2009.
“Origins.” (with Eric Mathison, Adrian Khactu, and Sara van Beurden), Eighth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference, City, State, February 28-29, 2008.
Medievalists@University of X, interdisciplinary Medieval Studies graduate student colloquium. Founder and organizer, September 2007-May 2008.
University of X Graduate Humanities Forum, graduate student colloquia and social events. Member of