English, Assistant Professor in Comparative Ethnic American Literature, Tenure Track
Loyola University Chicago
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Posted: 08-Nov-24
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Internal Number: 29675
Job Description:
The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at Loyola University Chicago seeks qualified candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. The successful candidate will teach at a research university that has made social justice central to its vision and will join a department with colleagues doing interdisciplinary work in textual studies and digital humanities, critical theory, gender and queer studies, and postcolonial and race studies. For more information about the department, please visit its website at www.luc.edu/english/.
We seek candidates with strong research and teaching profiles in early comparative ethnic American literature and culture, especially early Latino/a/e/x and/or early Asian American and Asian diasporic writing and expression.
Preferred: Scholars working in comparative or relational race and ethnic studies are especially desired.
Preferred: Specialists in all literary genres, critical approaches, and topics are encouraged to apply, particularly those in:
queer, trans, feminist or sexuality studies;
migration studies;
labor studies;
textual studies;
digital humanities;
critical race theory;
environmental humanities, medical humanities, or the history of science; or
revolutionary studies or the Age of Revolution.
Encouraged: Scholars whose work expands the definition of Pre-1900 ethnic American literature using hemispheric, oceanic, or global frameworks and comparative interdisciplinary methods are also welcomed to apply. This may include comparative studies between one of the above fields and another body of literature from the early modern, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century Americas, Atlantic and Pacific worlds, such as but not limited to Caribbean (e.g., Puerto Rican, Cuban, Saint-Domingue/Haitian, Chinese Jamaican or Trinidadian, etc.), Mexican Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, or Hawaiian literatures.
This search is part of a college-wide, multiyear hiring initiative designed to hire outstanding researchers and teachers who are reflective of our diverse student body, committed to interdisciplinarity, dedicated to the pursuit of external grants, and appreciative of a Jesuit, Catholic education. As a university that is situated in the world-class, multicultural City of Chicago and dedicated to mentoring a diverse student body, many of whom come from underrepresented and underserved populations, we especially encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented groups.
This position involves teaching English-language literature in core courses, upper-level undergraduate courses in the candidate's field of specialization, and graduate seminars in our BA/MA, MA, and PhD programs. The successful candidate will pursue a strong program of scholarship and engage in service at the department level or above.
Minimum Education and/or Work Experience:
The candidate will have a PhD in English, Literature, Ethnic Studies or a related field at the time of appointment. Candidates for the position must demonstrate clear potential for excellence in research and teaching, obtaining external funding, and student mentorship. The candidate must be willing to support the mission of Loyola University Chicago and the goals of a Jesuit, Catholic education.
Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is one of the nation's largest Jesuit, Catholic Universities and the only one located in Chicago. Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Health Sciences (HSC), and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to ten schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, communication, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, continuing and professional studies, and social work. Loyola also features course locations in Beijing, China; Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Vernon Hills, Illinois (Cuneo Mansion and Gardens); and a Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, Illinois. Recognizing Loyola's excellence in education, U.S.News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" in its annual publications. Loyola is among a select group of universities recognized for community service and engagement by prestigious national organizations like the Carnegie Foundation and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
