Joni Mitchell’s Application for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position — openculture.com

Image by Asylum Records (Billboard page 2) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Michael Stipe has a teaching gig at NYU. Lynda Barry has one at UW-Madison. So why can’t we imagine Joni Mitchell landing a job at a university too? That’s what Jedidiah Anderson did, when he wrote a satirical piece over at McSweeney’s called “Joni Mitchell Applies for a Tenure Track Philosophy Position.” It begins: I am applying for the position of Assistant Professor in Philosophy. I am an advanced doctoral candidate in Philosophy (with minors in Urban Studies and English), and expect to defend my dissertation in May, 2015.

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