Wiki page for Academic Jobs in English advertised during the 2021-2022 hiring season. This page is for jobs that start in 2022.
Next year's page: English Literature 2022-2023
Last year's page: English Literature 2020-2021
Best of luck to everyone! If a link is red the page has not yet been created for this year - anyone can create a page, so if you want one please get it started. The moderator will clean up and standardize the formatting once new pages are started.
Salary information for AY 2021-2022 available at English Lit Salaries 2021-2022.
Salary information from past job seasons available at English Lit Salaries 2020-2021, English Lit Salaries 2019-2020, etc.
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See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2021-2022
British/Anglophone Literature[]
Early Modern / Renaissance 2021-2022
Restoration / 18th Century British 2021-2022
Romanticism / Victorian / 19th Century British 2021-2022
Modern and Contemporary British 2021-2022
Anglophone and World Literature / Postcolonial 2021-2022
Irish, Scottish, or Welsh Literature 2021-2022
American/North American Literature[]
Early and 19th-Century American 2021-2022
20th and 21st-Century American 2021-2022
Ethnic Studies 2021-2022, including Asian American, Latino/a/x, Native American Literatures, etc.
African American Literature 2021-2022
North American Regional 2021-2022 (including U.S. South, American West, Canadian, Naval Literature, New England, etc.)
Generalist, Non-National Categories, & English-Adjacent Disciplines[]
Applied Linguistics/TESOL 2021-2022
Children's and Young Adult 2021-2022
Comparative Literature 2021-2022
Critical Theory 2021-2022 (not to be confused with Philosophy 2021-2022)
English Education / Primary and Secondary Literacy 2021-2022
Environmental Literature 2021-2022
New Media and Digital Humanities 2021-2022
Queer/Women's/Gender Studies 2021-2022
Rhetoric/Composition 2021-2022
Translation Studies 2021-2022