Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Anglophone & World Literature advertised during the 2024-2025 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2025.
Last year: Anglophone and World Literature / Postcolonial 2023-2024
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Jobs for 2025[]
Please list alphabetically by institution. ===Example University (State/Province, Country): Position Title=== Specializations. Deadline. TT/NT. FT/PT. Link to Job ad(s). Updates:
Bryn Mawr College (Philadelphia, PA): Assistant Professor of Literatures in English === "Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin August 1, 2025 in Asian American and/or Pacific Islander literatures, with potential methodological expertise in postcolonial studies, disability studies, indigenous studies, and/or comparative studies within the global south." Oct 11th. TT. FT. https://apply.interfolio.com/148504
-11/06 Any news?
Colby College (Waterville, Maine): Visiting Assistant Professor in Global Anglophone lit before 1900. To apply, please submit applications through Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/157593 Include cover letter, CV, contact information for three confidential references, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests that demonstrates a commitment to equitable and inclusive teaching and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages. Review of materials will begin on December 5 and continue until the position is filled. We will contact candidates in early February to schedule initial interviews in mid February, and invite finalists to campus in March. For further information, contact Professor Sarah Braunstein, Department of English, chair of the search committee (sarah.braustein@colby.edu).https://apply.interfolio.com/157593
- interview invite Feb 4 (x2)
- rejected after interview (3/11)
Fordham University (New York, USA): Assistant Professor in Global Anglophone Literatures of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries ==== "We are interested in applicants with expertise in postcolonial studies, as well as those who take multilingual, comparative, and diasporic approaches and situate the study of English within a global frame. We especially invite applicants working within and across the Indian Ocean, South Asia, and/or Africa." October 15th. TT. FT. https://apply.interfolio.com/151145
-10/30 -request for materials and letters of recommendation
-10/30 -received a warm and kind rejection letter (kudos to whoever drafted the letter) x2
-11/27 - received interview request. interview dates Dec 9, 12, 13.
-12/13 - campus visits invites were sent today.
2/8 - anyone who did a campus visit received an offer yet?
2/12 – the search is over. successful hire made.
Hunter College/CUNY (New York, USA): Assistant Professor in Global Anglophone Literature, 1900-Present
The English Department of Hunter College, City University of New York invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Global Anglophone Literature (1900-present) to begin Fall 2025. Areas of specialization may include postcolonial, comparative, and transnational approaches. We seek dynamic researchers and educators who will contribute to the life of the department and take an active role in shaping the future of course offerings in twentieth-century and contemporary literature, from required courses like ENGL 317, “Topics in Non-European Literary Traditions,” to more specialized courses at the 300- and 400-level and in our M.A. program based on the candidate’s specialized interests. November 15th. TT. FT. https://cuny.jobs/jobs/ and search Job ID 29099.
3/31: offers made and accepted, search concluded
- R1: Congrats! What do you mean though, offers? More than one offer for this position?
12/06: shortlisted, request for additional materials x4
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
Missouri State University (Springfield MO, USA). Assistant Professor, New Narrative Media/Anglophone Literature.[]
This position seeks a scholar whose research and teaching explore the intersection of new narrative media and literatures in English. The successful candidate will contribute to the program's existing strengths while addressing emerging interests in literary and cultural studies, including new storytelling forms, like podcasts, vertical video, video games, and transmedial narratives. The position will support allied academic programs and enhance student career preparation. The date of first consideration for the position is Friday, March 14, 2025. Review of applications will continue until position is filled. TT/FT Link to Job ad(s). HigherEd Jobs Ad: Assistant Professor, New Narrative Media/Anglophone Literature (9 month appt) - HigherEdJobs
Updates:
- Any updates? (4/1)
- Campus interviews scheduled (4/2)
Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts, USA): Assistant Professor of English specializing in Global Anglophone literatures === "The Department of English invites applications for the position of assistant professor specializing in global Anglophone literatures within and across the Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, and/or the Americas beginning July 1, 2025." September 20th. TT. FT. https://mtholyoke.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External/job/Assistant-Professor-of-English_R-0000001110
- any news??
-10/9 - received request for letters from Mount Holyoke HR and request for writing sample from search chair
-10/23 - received invitation for interview
-11/1 - received a relatively kind rejection notice x3
-11/6 Did anyone hear back after the interviews? Honestly, I don't expect to hear back after the interviews but just checking if anyone here has been invited to campus visits.---------Nothing yet X 2
-11/11 Any new development? R: nope. Have not heard back anything yet.
-11/13 Still nothing? Strange!
-11/14 Did not hear back anything. I am taking it as a no for the campus visit especially considering that it is past two weeks now.
-11/20 hello poster( who did x2 in the update above ) , did you hear back ? I ask only because i see the x2 removed. Congrats, anyway .
- Job talk invites went out a week ago!
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=D124091067
National Univ. of Singapore. Assistant Professor, Literature: "The Department of English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore invites exceptional candidates to apply for the position of Presidential Young Professor (PYP) at the rank of Assistant Professor, to commence in July 2025. This position is for research-intensive scholars—ABD, or PhD in-hand within past 5 years—who have expertise in one of the two following areas:
- Shakespeare studies, with special focus on either critical race theory and/or queer theories. Those with facility teaching across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (including Milton) are especially welcome to apply.
- Contemporary literature, with a focus on Asian literatures in English (including South Asian, Southeast Asian, and/or East Asian literature), with special focus on critical race theory and/or queer theories. The PYP scheme is designed for tenure-track faculty with outstanding research potential, and offers a substantial start-up research support scheme (of up to SGD$750,000), as well as an award of SGD$250,000 for discretionary spending. Salaries at NUS are highly competitive, with benefits including comprehensive health insurance and subsidized housing. The teaching load is 2:1 (totaling three per academic year). This will include both undergraduate and postgraduate instruction. Dec. 1, 2024. TT. FT. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/379550/assistant-professor-literature-/?LinkSource=PremiumListing.
Anyone hear from Singapore?
University of Michigan (Michigan, USA): Assistant Professor of Anglophone Literature from 1500 to 1700=== "We seek candidates who can teach well-known texts in Anglophone literary and cultural history, but who will also expansively reimagine the traditional curriculum to encompass global and comparative approaches, long chronologies, interdisciplinary inquiry, new methods, and unusual genres." October 14th. TT. FT. https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/251415/asst-professor Updates:
University of Texas at Austin: Assistant or Associate Professor – English Department. "The Department of English, in partnership with the Plan II Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or tenured Associate Professor to begin Fall of academic year 2025-2026. We seek a literary scholar specializing in the area of pre-1940 British Studies, with the understanding that the Anglophone literary production of (now) formerly colonized nations and the broad history of the Anglophone novel (eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries) forms part of a world history shaped by imperialism and its aftermath. We encourage interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies, including interests in genre studies, graphic narrative, serial television, digital production, and other modes of narrative expression. Duties will include undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, and service to the department, program, college, and university. Half of this position’s teaching load would be for the interdisciplinary Plan II Honors Program, and specifically the two-semester sequence of World Literature that forms the first-year core of the program. Required of every first-year undergraduate, World Literature introduces students to global cultures and thought from a wide variety of perspectives. Often organized around a theme, the two-semester course is a (roughly) chronological history of literary expression from the ancient world to the present day and includes different genres (epic, poetry, theatre, the novel, short story, etc.) from different cultures and continents, including Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Structured as a seminar, World Literature is discussion-based, with an emphasis on engagement with ideas" November 1, 2024. T/TT. FT. https://faculty.utexas.edu/career/145594
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[]
Western University (Ontario, Canada): English and Writing Studies - Assistant Professor: James and Eva Good Chair in English Literature. Deadline 2/14/2025. https://universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?job_id=67540
-Has anyone heard from Western? (2/25) I too am curious if anyone has heard (2/28)
- Haven't heard a peep over here (3/11)
- 3/14 reached out and was told initial review is ongoing.
- 3/24 interview requests have been sent out. sorry to all those who, like me, didn't receive one!
Hunter, anyone?
- Nothing here (12/6) x2
- 12/6-Request for additional materials (writing sample and 3 letters of rec) x3
- 12/20 - any news after additional materials requested?
- 1/8 - received request for virtual interview
- 3/24 - has anyone heard anything about this position and whether an offer was extended? As far as I know visits ended end-February.
- 3/31 - offer made in mid-March, accepted
Minnesota? (20th and/or 21st Century Literatures in English) (10/22)
- Nothing yet (10/23) x2
- 10/25 - Request for letters of recommendation x3
- 11/11 - Has anyone heard back after submitting rec letters? - Nope!
- 11/20 - Does anyone know what is happening with this job? Coz it is has been a minute since they asked for letters!!
- R1: Haven't heard anything yet here. They did ask for a lot of documents so I wonder if they made letter requests after an initial pass and are now looking more closely.
- 11/20 - Received request for interview. x2.
- R1: Congratulations! When did you receive the request?
- A: Thank you!! In the morning on 11/20
- 11/21: I did not hear back anything from Minnesota. Not sure, if I would have wanted to stay in Minnesota. But I am genuinely happy for those who received material requests and interviews. That's recognition of some sort and you all should be so proud of it!
- R1: On my tombstone I hope my family writes "Received requests for additional materials"
Arcadia University
- 10/30 Any news? ---- Nothing yet 11/03
- 12/10 Any news? At this point, I'm beginning to assume interviews went out and are just not posted...
Xavier University of Louisiana
- 11/03 Any news?
-03/02 Campus visits the week of Feb. 17-21. No news since.
Tufts University – 20th and 21st-Century Global Anglophone Poetry and Poetics
-11/04 No news yet x2
-11/25 Anyone hear? R1: Nothing yet (11/25)
-11/28 Has this search failed though?
- 11/29 Zoom Interview (heard on 11/26)
UC Davis
-12/9 - haven't heard anything yet
-12/14 Has anyone heard back after interviews?
UCLA
-11/19-request for Zoom interview (dates 12/9 and 12/10) x2
- 12/12: Anyone heard back after the interview?
- 12/13: Not yet. I have heard campus invites have to be approved by a lot of administrators at the UCs, so I don’t expect to hear until the second half of next week at the earliest. Pls do post tho if you hear!
-12/19: received invitation to visit campus
Bradley University - Global Literature
-11/12: Any news?
-11/22 Still nothing?
-11/23 Nothing so far
- 1/31 interview in December, nothing since
-2/12 Offer accepted
University of Mississippi - 20th/21st Century Global Anglophone, American, Transnational
-11/12: Any news?
- 11/21: is this for the Schillig assistant prof position? if so, interview request today 11/21.
- 01/15 - has anyone heard back about campus visits?
-01/26 - Campus visits start this week.
UT-Austin
-Any news? (12/6)
- interview request this week (12/6)
Berry College
Did folks hear back after the interview? They had said campus visits will be scheduled the week of 18-22 nov and 2nd-6th December. By this logic, campus interview requests should have gone out already.
Campus visit invites went out.
1/19 Any updates after the campus visit?
Harvard Post-45 Anglophone
- 11/27 Request for materials x3
- 12/4 Rejection notice x2
- 12/16 Zoom interview request x2
Yale, Anything under the sun
-^that ad was wild
-its very likely to hire a specific person who they want. or so i've heard.
- I bet it's me.
- that's not a job search, that's a census
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, British/Anglophone with queer theory and gender/women's studies
- (Nov. 30) Any news?
-12/6: Interview and Additional Materials Request received
-12/18: Has anyone heard back about campus visits?
Any word since campus visits? (2/15)
Barnard College - 20th and 21st Century Global Anglophone, non European Literature, written in or translated into English
- any idea if this job has an internal candidate?
- I have the same question as the poster above.
- but if it is internal, why even bother to openly share the interview/ campus visit schedules & make the information available to everyone ?
- the application deadline was literally the day before yesterday, so it’s most likely that they are just doing the search late in the academic year, which is a totally normal thing that can happen.
- also note that this *is* a tenure track (stream) job, and the advert says plainly that they won’t do interviews until Feb. I wonder if the person two above read the job call before they shared their wisdom?
- I think some previous posters must have confused this job with the Lecturer position in Comparative Literature, which appears to be for an internal candidate. Just demonstrates how the monolingualists have destroyed CL that people don’t even know the difference anymore.
- the global anglophone/poco ppl are to blame for comp litters not being able to read what sub they’re on and job they’re talking about? Before this gets more silly, I’m gonna call time out and say that blaming fellow scholars (many of us speak more than one language btw) for the cuts of the neoliberal university is not the move
- I only asked about the internal candidate because they have a non TT assistant professor who fits the job announcement. I wonder if the outraged English PhD above is aware that schools do a job search even when they intend to hire an insider.
- the “outraged English PhD” was replying to someone who deleted their comment when they got called on lecturing people about entirely the wrong job; that PhD wasn’t replying to the first comment, presumably yours. And if you can read, I’m sure you can tell that I understand that an error was made and I’m reacting to another person who seems to think the confusion is down to monolingualism (English isn’t even my first language) rather than a mix of misreading and anxiety about casualization and the general lack of jobs. But pls, take more shots at English PhDs for your error and the state of the comp lit job market—that seems helpful. And btw, I know universities advertise inside hires, but even if it’s an inside hire, I feel good for that person—they’re currently contingent and victims of this shitty situation like the rest of us and its not their fault we’re wasting our time applying. This last sentence is what solidarity between jobseekers looks like, since you seem not to know. Like I said, let’s call time on this bullshit.
- any updates? did anyone receive requests for letters yet? 1/6
- nothing yet 1/7
-request for letters -- does this mean anything substantive? 1/10 +1 i was wondering the same thing.
- to the last two commenters: are you saying that you got a request for letters and asking if it means anything or are you just asking weather it's significant to be asked for letters of recommendation?
-yes i got the request for letters on 1/10 but it initially didnt seem too clear whether it was indicating the next step in the process.
- request for writing sample 1/12+1
- anyone received invitation to interview?
-the deadline for additional materials has not yet passed.
-- I received request for letters on 1/10 and request for writing sample on 1/12. It was also unclear to me whether this meant anything substantial in terms of advancing in the search or if they are doing this for everyone. I have not heard back about an interview.
— I applied but did not get requests for letters of rec or a writing sample, so I would guess it’s good news for those who did.
HAS ANYONE RECEIVED AN INVITATION TO INTERVIEW?
02/05: I was invited for a zoom interview on 02/14 x2
03/07: I got an official rejection yesterday. I was not invited to submit materials or for interview. Just sharing because it suggests both that they’re still working on this and that people are still under active consideration.
03/09: I had a zoom interview and then never heard back from them. Anyone else? x2
Does anyone suspect a hiring freeze? The radio silence is strange...
yeah … It might also be the case that some of their candidates withdrew after receiving offers elsewhere and they are reconsidering or discontinuing? This is pretty late in the cycle— many global Anglophone searches have now concluded, no?
yes, thats true. although I think the 400 mil budget cut and arresting their students might be affecting the search as well.
03/24: Any news?
UNC Asheville - Global Anglophone 19th Century
- (Dec. 13) Any news?
- (1/28) Still nothing?
University of South Dakota - Postcolonial Anglophone Literature
-Any news? 1/24
- Interview next week 2/1 x2
- Campus visits scheduled for the last week of Feb
Oglethorpe University - Postcolonial/Global Anglophone
-Any news? 1/24
--Did anyone hear back after interviews? 2/21
--Not yet, but the search committee chair mentioned the possibility of a two week time frame 2/23
--Has anyone heard back after interviews? 3/4
Trinity College Dublin - Postcolonial and Global Literatures
--Any news on this position? 4/14
--Wondering the same thing 4/25
--rejection received 4/30
Williams College-Visiting Assistant Professor in English, Postcolonial Literature
5/5--any news? deadline was April 21
5/13--received request for additional materials (letters of rec and teaching statement)
Colorado College - Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Comparative Literature, Postcolonial Studies/Literatures of the Global South/Global Anglophone
5/5--deadline was 5/2, but still posting in case anyone hears any news.
5/8–received request for Zoom interview