Wiki page for Academic Jobs in British 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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- Example University. Position Title. Specializations. Deadline. TT/NT. FT/PT. Link to Job ad(s).
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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.
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See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2024-2025
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Jobs for 2025[]
Please list in alphabetical order by institution
Ambrose University (AB, Canada)[]
Assistant or Associate Professor of English, open to specializations from the Romantics to the present. Christian. 10/28/2024. TT, FT. https://ambrose.edu/job/assistantassociate-professor-english
Fort Lewis College (Durango, CO, USA). Assistant Professor of English. Field of Brit lit specialization open; to teach British and postcolonial + rhetoric and composition. Closed 1/5/25. https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=178987406&Title=Assistant%20Professor%20of%20English.
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
West Virginia Wesleyan College (Buckhannon, WV), The English Department seeks candidates with a specialization in British literature of any period, as well as a secondary focus in world literature. https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=178954647&Title=Assistant%20Professor%20of%20English request for Zoom interview 12/22
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[]
Any news on (9/12) (?):
Hillsdale College - Tenure-Track position in English
Mississippi College - Tenure-Track Generalist
- Interview: 1/8.
Lindsey Wilson - Assistant Professor in English
- New update on the Generalist page says Zoom interviews happened Jan. 6-10. (1/17)
UMass Amherst - Assistant Professor in English, Transnational British
- last I heard was from an interview in early December. I assume campus invites have gone out already....?
- campus visits scheduled
Fort Lewis
1/24: Any news from Fort Lewis?
- Zoom interview invitation 1/22
- Campus visit scheduled
West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Zoom interview invitation 12/22/24
Winston-Salem State University, open-rank position in British literature or African American literature
- Interview request 3/6