Comparative Literature 2022-2023

Wiki page for Academic Jobs in Comparative Literature advertised during the 2022-2023 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2023.

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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.

Jobs for 2023[]

Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) TT Assistant/Associate Professor in Theory. Deadline: 10/15.
- Updates: Any News?
  - Nothing yet
  - Request for additional materials (11/3)
  - Was this request for materials really from over a month ago, and what kind of materials did they request?
  - Yeah it was (11/2) and they wanted another writing sample.
  - Any updates? Rejections or interview requests received? Rejections received (12/15) interview in January
  - Rejection after sample requested (12/15)
  - Has anyone been invited for a campus visit?
  - Campus visits have taken place (3/14)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) TT Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature. Deadline 11/1
- Updates: request for additional materials 12/1 (x2)
- What kind of additional materials if you don't mind sharing?—> dissertation and published book
- ^^ "Published book" lmao
- Anything…?
- Nothing here since the request of additional materials. But DD's email mentioned a committee meeting on Dec 19, so I'm assuming they have notified the finalists by now.
- 12/22 can confirm that they have scheduled interviews with finalists
- Any word?
- Looks like they kept it in house.... https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/news/new-professor-matylda-figlerowicz
  - Lmao come ON
Duke University (Durham, NC). TT Assistant and/or Associate Professor in Theory in the Literature Program. Deadline 11/1
- Updates: Any News?
- No news but I know that they've received 460 applications....
- Zoom interviews conducted Dec. 5-6 2022.
- For which position were interviews conducted?
- I filled out a Doodle that contained 10 time slots. I presume (but do not know for sure) that it was for both positions in a combined search. That may not be the case, however.
- J/c - does the above poster work on Latin literature?
- They do not.
- Were campus invites issued for this position
- Any word on Latinx position?
UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) TT Assistant Professor in Arabic and Comparative Literature. Deadline 10/15.
- Updates: interview request 11/28
- Updates: request for more materials 12/16
- would you mind sharing what kind of materials were requested?
- Sure - a couple of articles
- any news?
McGill University (Montreal, Canada) Assistant Professor in Southern European Literature and Cultural Studies with a Concentration in Hispanic Studies and Italian Studies. Deadline 12/5

Updates: Any news?

UMass Boston (Boston, MA). TT Assistant Professor of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies. Deadline 11/15.
- Updates: Any news?
- zoom interview invitation (12/1
- To the people invited to a Zoom interview: What is/are your language(s) of specialization?
- French, Chinese
- Any update after the interview??
- campus interview invitation (1/14)
Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. Deadline 11/18.
Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA). Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature with emphasis in Asian Studies, Asian Literature, Asian/Pacific American Literature, and/or an East Asian Language. Ability to teach digital humanities and/or medical humanities a plus. Deadline: Ongoing. Submit CV and Cover Letter to https://nsucareers.nova.edu/en-us/job/503146/faculty-rank-tbd-humanities-997511.

Word on the street[]

Any word on Emory?
- Campus visits happening late January and early February
- To the people invited to campus: What is/are your language(s) of specialization?
Any word on NYU Comp Lit/South Asia search?
- Second hand word they interviewed week of 12/5
- Second hand word they invited for campus visit 12/22
Has anyone heard from UMass Boston’s Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies?

Has anyone heard from NYU's Assistant Professor of Capitalism? (12/11)
- Rejection (12/16)
- Nothing here (12/28)
- Still no rejection. (12/29)

Has anyone heard from NYU's Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Literatures? (12/3)
- They are interviewing this week.
Has anyone heard from University of Washington's American Indian and Indigenous Literary Studies Assistant Professor position? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Yale's Assistant Professor position in the Department of English Language and Literature, specializing in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity? (12/3) Any News ?
- Rejection (12/14)
- What would it mean to not have a rejection (12/28) but also not to have been asked for additional materials?
Has anyone heard from Illinois Wesleyan University's Assistant Professor of American Literatures? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Dartmouth's Assistant Professor of Native American Literature and Indigenous Studies? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Northern Arizona University's Assistant Professor position in Comparative Cultural Studies with a specialization in Native American Cultures? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Georgetown's Assistant Professor position in Transnational/Global Feminist, Queer, and Trans Studies & Approaches to Literatures, Media, and Cultures? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Fort Lewis College's Assistant Professor position in Native American and/or First Nations Literature? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from Brown University's Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature position? (12/3)
- Interview have been schedule.
- Interview on Dec 9, no news since
- Campus visit scheduled (12/16)
- would you mind sharing specialty/
- It's a (Global) Arabic literature position.
Has anyone heard from Claremont McKenna’s Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature position? (12/3)
Has anyone heard from UNC’s English & Comp Lit Assistant Prof position?
- No but I would like to!
- 1/17 - no update
- Currently conducting campus interviews.
Any word on the Washington University St Louis Associate Professor English position? Apps were due 11/15
- No (1/3)
- They did campus visits and made an offer for the Assistant Professor position in December--iirc, the job post said that the associate search would start after the assistant search was finished.
Has anyone heard from University of Texas at Austin Assistant professor of Literature and Theory after 1650?
- No (1/3)
- Any updates?
Any word from University of Oregon on the Assistant Professor of Global Studies job? (1/3)
Ant word from Nova Southeastern University? (3/12)
Has anyone heard from St. Andrews about the Lecturer position in Comparative Literature? (4/05)
- Rejection (April 7)
Has anyone heard from Oberlin about the VAP in Comp Lit? Initial interviews happened last week; any news on teaching demos?