Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Comparative Literature advertised during the 2020-2021 hiring season.
Last year's page: Comparative Literature 2019-2020 .
See also Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, German Studies, French & Francophone, Spanish & Portuguese, Italian, English Literature, and Philosophy.
Instructions
Please add jobs in the following format and order them alphabetically by institution.
- Example University (State/Province, Country). Position Title. Specializations. Deadline. TT/NT. FT/PT. Link to Job ad(s). Updates:
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. (This is a departure from previous years, when these pages tended to become difficult to navigate. The new guidelines are modeled on more user-friendly Academic Wiki pages serving other disciplines.)
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 above, under Word on the Street.
Please contribute to transparency in the academy by adding yourself and your advisors to the Academic Tree project.
See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2020-2021 .
Jobs with 2020 Application Deadlines
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA). Assistant Professor in Critical Theory (TT/FT) https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF02679
Applied 7X
Writing sample requested 4X
Additional writing samples requested
To the user who posted above, were you asked to submit a second writing sample after receiving the initial request that several of us received a few weeks ago?
Seconding the question above. Some clarification would be helpful. Thanks.
=> Yes; additional samples requested after sending the initial sample requested a few weeks ago.
Did they indicate whether this was for a further round? => No. But they specified which pieces they wanted to see.
Interview request 2X
Can you say when interview requests were sent?
=> December 4
Any rejection letters?
Had my interview last week. They said the search wouldn't continue until after the break. Finalists will be notified first week of Jan.
Université de Caen (FRA:CAL). Open Rank Professor in Comparative Literature & French Literature. Deadline: 6 July 2020. TT. FT. Job Ad on Euraxess . Updates:
Cambridge University (Cambridge, UK): University Lecturer in Postcolonial Literature: Caribbean literature; East African literature; West African literature (Tenure Track). Deadline: Dec 14 2020. https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/27641/
Jobs with 2021 Application Deadlines
Stanford University (Stanford, CA). Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research (NT/FT). Deadline: Jan 7, 2021. Position information at gender.stanford.edu.
Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA). Assistant/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities with specialization in Ethnic Studies in the Department of Humanities and Politics. Deadline: Open until filled. NTT. FT. https://nsucareers.nova.edu/en-us/job/498244/faculty-rank-tbd-digital-humanities-997347