Probably more directed to the digital classicists, but I'm not on that list, and with not much change, much of this would apply to medievalists too.

-Sara

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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:30:45 +0100 From: Gregory Crane gregory.crane@tufts.edu Subject: Essay: "So you want to become a professor of Greek and/or Latin?"

For what its worth: it is the time of year when people apply for PhD programs in Classics (and everything else). I wrote this essay because I think that the Digital Humanities have now reached a point where anyone who wants to start a Classics career now (and thus would, if just out of college, be looking at a career that could run through 2060) really needs to come to grips with the "digital turn". I don't know of any PhD program for Greek and Latin that really addresses the challenges that we face as we reinvent our field to flourish in the digital world of which we are all already a part. (I am hoping to be buried with counter-examples!)

Gregory Crane*

So you want to become a professor Greek and/or Latin? Think hard about a PhD in Digital Humanities.

Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Digital Humanities Universität Leipzig Professor of Classics Winnick Family Chair of Technology and Entrepreneurship Tufts University

I decided to write this piece because this is the time of year when those who wish to become professional students of Greek and Latin are deciding where they should apply for graduate schools. I am now starting to see that the most interesting Phd projects on Greek and Latin are taking place in PhD programs for the Digital Humanities and I think that anyone who wishes to develop a career of sustained satisfaction needs to think carefully about how they move forward. At the present time, I am not aware of any traditional program in Greek and Latin that prepares students for satisfying and sustainable careers.

This essay falls into three parts. First I suggest some words of caution, including the well-known challenges about actually landing a permanent faculty position, the amount of work that you will need to commit if you want to maximize your chances for success and then, more substantively, something about the actual work that supports faculty Greek and Latin faculty positions in the United States and (much of) Europe. The second section briefly touches upon some fundamental topics that we must resolve if we are to rethink the study of Greek and Latin (as I think we must if we are to survive, or perhaps even flourish): the information that we produce, the knowledge that we internalize, the values that we advance and the basis for the survival of our field. The third section describes some topics that you will probably not find in a standard program for Greek and Latin but that would greatly enhance your ability to develop a sustainable career.

[for the rest: http://tinyurl.com/mwx6m35%5D*

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