The Graduate Student Outreach and Support Committee invites you to a virtual professional development workshop on strategies for navigating academic job interviews. Our guest speaker is Dr. Amy S. Thompson, the Mack and Effie Campbell Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Teacher Education in the Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at Florida State University. A renowned applied linguistics scholar and language education advocate, Dr. Thompson is the recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Service to the Profession Award from the Association of Language Departments (ALD), a part of the Modern Language Association (MLA).

Dr. Thompson will share insights drawn from her extensive leadership experience and service on multiple hiring committees across languages and teacher education fields.

This session will be structured primarily as a Q&A, giving participants the chance to engage directly with Dr. Thompson. Topics may include preparing for interviews, anticipating and responding to common questions, presenting your research and teaching effectively, and approaching in-person or virtual interviews with professionalism and confidence.

To ensure the discussion addresses participants’ needs, the organizers are collecting questions in advance through a Google Form.