American Open 2024-2025

Wiki page for Academic Jobs in American Literature with an Open or Generalist specialization advertised during the 2024-2025 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2025.

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Please add jobs in the following format and order them alphabetically by institution.

TT/NT: Tenure-track or Non-tenure track.

FT/PT: Full-Time or Part-Time

For the sake of user-friendliness, please do not add more detailed content of the job ad on this page.

Add updates to the end of each entry as they come in: Additional materials requested, video interview scheduled, campus visit scheduled, offer extended, offer accepted, rejection received.

Please post "Have you heard?" questions at the bottom, under Word on the Street.

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Jobs for 2025[]

Loyola University Chicago (IL, USA). 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. 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. See details here: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29717. Dec. 9. TT. FT. 2/2. Apply here: https://www.careers.luc.edu/postings/29717.

Mount Wachusett Community College (MA, USA). TT, FT, Associate Professor. Experience with and desire to teach courses in one or more of the following areas: African American literature; multiethnic American literature; Latinx literature of the Americas; and courses in support of the department's degree track in Professional Writing through a CRT and/or social justice lens. Due Nov 13. https://mwcc.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=182367

Michigan Technological University (MI, USA). Department Chair, Associate or Full Professor of Humanities (specialization open). Open until filled; Review of applications will begin December 1, 2024. https://www.employment.mtu.edu/cw/en-us/job/493755/department-chair-humanities

Nagoya University (Nagoya, JAPAN). Associate Professor of English/Anglophone Literature. Graduate School of Humanities. 10/31/2024. NT. FT. https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124091067Please list alphabetically by institution.

Notre Dame of Maryland University (Baltimore, MD). Assistant Professor of English, American Literature and Black Studies. School of Arts Sciences and Business. TT, FT. Begins August 2025. Posted May 1, 2025. Review of applications begins immediately. https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=ac3ea3a3-1795-4ceb-80c1-668296dbec35&ccId=19000101_000001&jobId=521316&lang=en_US

Saint Mary's College (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA)[]

The Saint Mary’s College Department of English invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of English (American literature). We are particularly interested in applicants who demonstrate expertise in the black Atlantic, literature of the Americas broadly conceived, Latinx literature, African-American literature, and/or Native-American literature. Demonstrated understanding and practice of critical race theory and feminist pedagogy is required. We seek a colleague who shares our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and social justice, and who is eager to join us in building an empowering academic community for undergraduate women. Application Instructions

Cover letter
Curriculum vitae
Contact information for three confidential and current recommenders
Statement of teaching philosophy
Statement on diversity and inclusivity that provides evidence of the candidate’s commitment to the following:
- fostering an inclusive classroom environment that values diversity, taking into consideration students from a broad variety of backgrounds and learning styles, and
- taking a social justice-oriented approach to research in their discipline and/or advancing belonging through diversity, equity, inclusion, or justice initiatives in their service commitments

All materials should be submitted through Saint Mary’s College’s hiring portal by December 2, 2024.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-details/9319/assistant-professor-department-of-english-tenure-track-/

University of North Alabama (AL, USA). Assistant Professor of American Literature (generalist but prefer Early American or multicultural American). FT/TT with a 4/4 load. ABD considered but PhD in hand at time of appointment. Review begins February 1, 2025: https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/una

New College of Florida (Sarasota, FL) Tenure Track Position in Medical/Health Humanities (Deadline: March 31)

Job Description: New College of Florida is hiring for a tenure-track position in medical/health humanities to further strengthen our Health, Culture, and Societies (HCS) program, with employment beginning in August 2025. We welcome applicants from a range of academic fields and research areas, including but not limited to literature, linguistics, philosophy, digital humanities, media studies, graphic medicine, disability studies, narrative medicine, art, art history, music, and ethno/musicology. The position requires the ability to teach a history of medicine/biomedicine course. Deadline: March 31, 2025. For more details, please refer to the job description here: https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=179075900&Title=Professor%2C%20Medical%2FHealth%20Humanities

Word on the Street[]

11/03 - Any news on the following?:

Coppin State, English
CUNY- Los Hostos, English
Le Moyne, American; Nothing here, 11/20.
Minnesota, American
William & Mary, American
Xavier U of Louisiana, American

11/14 - Adding a few in case people hear back early:

Harvard, Post-45 Anglophone
Yale, Open (lol) -- Nothing here yet on my end (11/30)

11/27 - Any news on Mount Saint Vincent (Assistant Professor of English, specializing in African American literature and/or literature of the Americas)?

2/7 - Anyone heard from Mount Saint Vincent English / American lit position?
2/10: Had a first-round interview for UMSV on 2/5, have not heard back yet regarding a campus visit or no.

01/09 - Adding for updates:

West Virginia, American Lit
- Still nothing here (2/2) anyone else?
- Nothing for us with the pre-1900 position that pairs with this one either.
Anyone hear back from WVU after interviewing? (3/13)

Campus visit invitation: Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame (1/17)

Anything for Mount Royal (Canada)? (Feb 26)

—had a campus visit in late Feb but have heard nothing since (3/27)

3/28--Anyone heard anything from U of North AL?

4/19--Wingate University (N.C.): This one may have been the last Americanist position of the season. Was for a generalist, and the due date was 3/24. The only response I heard was that they were reviewing applications and would try to finish doing so by the end of the semester. Any other updates?