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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Merve Emre <memre@wesleyan.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 30, 2024 1:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Merve Emre <memre@wesleyan.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Postdoc in Criticism at Wesleyan</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">I'm looking to hire a 2-year postdoc in criticism to help me direct and grow the Shapiro Center. Link to
the ad is here: </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">It would be the perfect job for a hyper-organized, self-motivated recent PhD who is interested in both academic
and non-academic genres of criticism and can juggle admin, teaching, and writing. Please share with your students! I'm happy to answer any and all questions they might have! </span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Merve Emre</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Director of the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Wesleyan University</span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Contributing Writer,
<i>The New Yorker</i></span></p>
<p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><a href="http://www.merveemre.com/" id="OWA137adb89-9bbe-d44a-7dec-acba12c7223f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.merveemre.com</a></span></p>
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