I don't think Wahneema's psot answers my question about pomo and stardom. And as a college teacher for 30 years I surely know what teachers earn.
michael yates
wahneema lubiano wrote:
>
> At 08:19 PM 1/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Friends,
> >
> >There is a good article on the demise of the very pomo Duke Univ.
> >English department. Apparently these highly-paid and underworked (as
> >far as teaching goes)"stars" have gone their separate and more lucrative
> >ways. Stanley Fish, the man who put the department together, has been
> >lured to the Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Circle for $230,000. Any
> >comments on any connections between pomo and the academic as superstar?
> >
> >michael yates
>
> The English department at Duke is not generally con-
> sidered the "pomo" department. The Literature Program is.
> The English department, with the exception of the well-
> known faculty who have left, is very conservative--both in terms
> of method and with regard to what they consider the
> proper business of literary study. And some of the "stars"
> left because they were carrying on their own the majority
> of the burden of graduate teaching and much of the under-
> graduate curricula.
>
> Some of the faculty who left moved into other parts of the university
> because of the deadlocks in the department not because of more
> lucrative salaries. The (arguably) biggest "star" who left
> (Sedgwick) left for a complicated set of reasons not the least of which
> was a return (for the third time) of cancer which made being
> with her husband a necessity.
>
> Stanley Fish is taking up a job as a Dean. Most administra-
> tors in universities and colleges at the Dean level and upwards
> are paid much more highly than even "star" full professors.
> Professors in the sciences, engineering, professional schools
> (law, medicine, business), and the public policy schools are
> paid on the whole more than professors in the humanities. Most
> professors in those areas (sciences, etc.) are not "pomo."
>
> Most "pomo" (or faculty whose work is poststructuralist
> in some way) earn salaries that follow the pattern of other
> kinds of faculty. "Pomo" faculty run the range from
> graduate students teaching literature courses, instructors/
> adjuncts, assistant professors, associate professors,
> to high-ranking tenured faculty.
>
> There is a vast difference between what most faculty earn
> and what a very few stars (whether "pomo" or not) earn.
> Public university faculty salaries are a matter of public
> record; private university faculty salaries are not but studies
> are available (some from the Modern Language Association)
> that compile information from both kinds of sources.
>
> Wahneema