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Assistant Professor – English (Indigenous Studies)
The Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for two tenure-track positions as Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Indigenous Studies, beginning Fall 2025. This hire is part of two Provost Cluster Initiatives on “The Racialized Body” and “Social Justice and Human Rights.” We encourage applications from candidates with expertise in Indigenous studies in lands claimed by Canada and/or America, and/or global Indigenous literatures and cultures. In addition to demonstrated expertise in Indigenous literatures, cultures, and knowledge production and the “Racialized Body” or “Social Justice and Human Rights” cluster areas, candidates’ research areas might also include poetics; indigenous modernities; early-modern studies, performance studies; hemispheric studies; communications; rhetorical studies; Black Studies; Latinx Studies; film and media studies; postcolonial studies; environmental studies; gender or sexuality studies.
Located in the heart of Chicago, the UIC English Department is home to a wide variety of student programs and award-winning faculty research and writing. We are the largest humanities major at UIC, and offer MA and PhD programs in English Studies, Creative Writing, and English Education. Faculty in English are expected to teach our core curriculum, including surveys of English literary history and theory.
For fullest consideration please complete an on-line application at https://uic.csod.com/…/care…/1/home/requisition/12140…, including a letter of application, CV, and writing sample by November 15, 2024. Instructions for adding three letters of recommendation will be sent once your application is submitted. Applicants should identify which cluster they wish to apply to in their cover letters. See here for more information on the Racialized Body and Social Justice and Human Rights clusters. To begin the application process, follow the “create account” link before proceeding to the job listings. Final authorization of the position is subject to availability of funding. If you have any questions about the position, please email the Co-Chairs of the search, Nasser Mufti (nmufti@uic.edu) and Manoucheka Celeste (manouche@uic.edu).
Qualifications
Ph.D prior to start date in relevant area required.
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The Chicagoland area is home to various diaspora communities, some with refugee origins, including Native American communities, the largest Palestinian diaspora in the United States, Hmong refugees from China and Vietnam, Karen refugees from Myanmar, and Ogoni refugees from Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. As such Chicago is an ideal place to pursue such scholarship and UIC is an ideal campus community given the critical mass of faculty and their intellectual strengths in various interdisciplinary units.