Wiki page for Academic Jobs in English advertised during the 2025-2026 hiring season. This page is for jobs that start in 2026.
Last year's page: English Literature 2024-2025
Salary information for AY 2025-2026 available at English Lit Salaries 2025-2026.
Salary information from past job seasons available at English Lit Salaries 2024-2025, English Lit Salaries 2023-2024, etc.
You can add / view information about publishing in literary studies journals at Literary Studies Journals.
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2025-2026
British/Anglophone Literature[]
Early Modern / Renaissance 2025-2026
Restoration / 18th Century British 2025-2026
Romanticism / Victorian / 19th Century British 2025-2026
Modern and Contemporary British 2025-2026
Anglophone and World Literature / Postcolonial 2025-2026
Irish, Scottish, or Welsh Literature 2025-2026
American/North American Literature[]
Early and 19th-Century American 2025-2026
20th and 21st-Century American 2025-2026
Ethnic Studies 2025-2026, including Asian American, Latino/a/x, Native American Literatures, etc.
African American Literature 2025-2026
North American Regional 2025-2026 (including U.S. South, American West, Canadian, Naval Literature, New England, etc.)
Generalist, Non-National Categories, & English-Adjacent Disciplines[]
Applied Linguistics/TESOL 2025-2026
Children's and Young Adult 2025-2026
Comparative Literature 2025-2026
Critical Theory 2025-2026 (not to be confused with Philosophy 2025-2026)
English Education / Primary and Secondary Literacy 2025-2026
Environmental Literature 2025-2026
New Media and Digital Humanities 2025-2026
Queer/Women's/Gender Studies 2025-2026