Wiki page for Academic Jobs in English advertised during the 2023-2024 hiring season. This page is for jobs that start in 2024.
Last year's page: English Literature 2022-2023
6/6/24 Page for 2025 is now available: English Literature 2024-2025
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 2023-2024 available at English Lit Salaries 2023-2024.
Salary information from past job seasons available at English Lit Salaries 2022-2023, English Lit Salaries 2021-2022, etc.
You can add / view information about publishing in literary studies journals at Literary Studies Journals.
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2023-2024
British/Anglophone Literature[]
Early Modern / Renaissance 2023-2024
Restoration / 18th Century British 2023-2024
Romanticism / Victorian / 19th Century British 2023-2024
Modern and Contemporary British 2023-2024
Anglophone and World Literature / Postcolonial 2023-2024
Irish, Scottish, or Welsh Literature 2023-2024
American/North American Literature[]
Early and 19th-Century American 2023-2024
20th and 21st-Century American 2023-2024
Ethnic Studies 2023-2024, including Asian American, Latino/a/x, Native American Literatures, etc.
African American Literature 2023-2024
North American Regional 2023-2024 (including U.S. South, American West, Canadian, Naval Literature, New England, etc.)
Generalist, Non-National Categories, & English-Adjacent Disciplines[]
Applied Linguistics/TESOL 2023-2024
Children's and Young Adult 2023-2024
Comparative Literature 2023-2024
Critical Theory 2023-2024 (not to be confused with Philosophy 2023-2024)
English Education / Primary and Secondary Literacy 2023-2024
Environmental Literature 2023-2024
New Media and Digital Humanities 2023-2024
Queer/Women's/Gender Studies 2023-2024
Rhetoric and Composition 2023-2024
WHO IS USING THIS WIKI?[]
Age
under 30: 3
30-35: 3
36-40: 1
41-45: 1
46-50: 1
over 50:
prefer not to state age:
TOTAL:
Field
Medieval:
Early Modern / Renaissance:
Restoration / 18th-century British: 1
Romanticism / Victorian:
Modern and Contemporary British:
Anglophone and World Literature:
Irish, Scottish, or Welsh Literature:
Early and 19th-Century American: 3
20th and 21st-Century American:
Ethnic Studies:
African American Literature:
North American Regional (including U.S. South, American West, Canadian, Naval Literature, New England, etc.):
Applied Linguistics/TESOL:
Children's and Young Adult: 1
Classics:
Comparative Literature:
Creative Writing:
Critical Theory: 1
English Education / Primary and Secondary Literacy:
Environmental Literature: 1
Ethnic Studies:
Film Studies: 1
Linguistics:
New Media and Digital Humanities: 1
Queer/Women's/Gender Studies: 3
Rhetoric and Composition:
Theater / Drama: 1
Translation Studies:
Search Committee Lurker:
Employment Status
Unemployed and looking for job:
Administrative job/Publisher:
Employed in other field, wanting to re-enter academia:
Employed in other field, just trying to break into academia:
Finishing MFA or Ph.D. & going on the market: 4
Have fellowship after MFA or Ph.D. & going on the market:
Working as adjunct/lecturer, looking for TT job: 1
Have visiting gig, looking for TT: 1
Have fixed-term gig, looking for TT:
Have visiting gig, looking for another visiting gig (not TT):
Have TT job and looking for new one: 1
Have TT job and on the market because of a spouse/partner:
Had TT job but quit to go on the market because of spouse/partner:
Have TT job and want to keep it but need an offer elsewhere to get a raise:
Tenured and on the market because of a spouse/partner:
Have tenure but looking for new job:
Tenured at undergrad-only institution, looking for job in MFA program:
Tenured, looking for visiting position:
Permanent NTT job, looking for tenured job:
Window shopping:
Have "SR" NTT job, looking for tenured job:
Degrees
PhD only:
PhD and MA: 7
PhD and MFA:
PhD (Creative Writing), MFA, and MA:
PhD (Literature), MFA, and MA:
PhD (Rhetoric), MFA, and MA:
Other
Published articles: 5
Published chapters:
First academic book under contract:
First book published: 1
First book published, second book under contract:
Second book published:
Second book published, third under contract:
Multiple books published: