Wiki page for Academic Jobs in North American Regional Literature advertised during the 2021-2022 hiring season. This page is for jobs that begin in 2022.
Last year's page: North American Regional 2020-2021
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Instructions[]
Please add jobs in the following format and order them alphabetically by institution.
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.
See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2021-2022
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Jobs for 2022[]
West Virginia University - Southern and Appalachian Regional Literatures[]
App Due: Jan. 13 (Review begins Jan. 14)
Note: I just doublechecked my personal records, and the original due date was indeed November 15, 2021. Not sure why somebody changed that.
Note: The job ad has been updated on WVU's career search page: "The screening process will begin January 14, 2022 and continue until the position is filled." (https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=17869&tz=GMT-05%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York)
Dec. 8: email rejection.
Dec. 9: request for more materials [committee confirmed extended application deadline to Jan. 14] x 3
Jan. 25: Any updates since December LoR requests? (*No subsequent word yet)
Jan. 30: got an email saying they called off the search and will resume in Fall 2022 [x2] (*Thank you for the update. I haven't received this email as of 1/31. I appreciate their transparency in the process but wish they had gone forward with the search this year).