Welcome to this year’s wiki! This wiki should include only academic positions in Romanticism / Victorian / 19th Century British Literature that begin in 2026.
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Jobs for 2026[]
- Westmont College (Santa Barbara, California, USA). Assistant Professor of English (Literature). Lit of the Global South, British Lit after 1600, and/or American Lit before 1900. Protestant; requires adherence to an "Articles of Faith." Review of applications will begin Nov 2025. TT. FT. https://www.westmont.edu/office-provost/open-positions
- Illinois Wesleyan University (Illinois, USA), Department of English, Assistant Professor of English. TT. FT. Link Deadline: October 20thSpeciality: We seek a scholar-teacher whose work in global/postcolonial Englishes explores class, gender, race, ethnicity, migration/diaspora, and/or queer/trans identities, optimally in ways that are in conversation with British literature(s) of the eighteenth and/or nineteenth centuries.
- Morehouse College (Georgia, USA), Division of Humanities, Social Sciences, Media & Arts, Assistant Professor of English. TT. FT. Link, Deadline: October 1st Specialty: We seek a specialist in Creative Writing with a sub specialization in British Literature (Romanticism).
- Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (Texas, USA), Department of English Studies, Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, Link, Deadline: October 6th Specialty: We seek applicants with expertise in British or non-U.S. Anglophone literature (Long Eighteenth Century, Victorian, or Modernist), with demonstrated fluency in queer theory and/or the histories and literary representation of gender and sexuality.
- Belmont University (Tennessee, USA). Assistant Professor of English. Specialty: British literature (Victorian Literature). TT. FT. Due Sept. 1, 2025 and continue until position is filled. LINK.
- Williams College (Williamstown, MA). Department of English, Assistant Professor, 1600-1830, British / Global Anglophone. TT. FT. Deadline: October 1st. [1] https://employment.williams.edu/faculty-positions/english-department-7/
- Carleton College (Northfield, MN). Department of English, Assistant Professor. TT. FT. Deadline: November 1st. https://carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CarletonCareers/job/Assistant-Professor-of-English_R-01298
- University of Miami (Miami, FL). Department of English, Assistant Professor. British Romanticism / Literature of the Global Revolutionary Period. TT. FT. Deadline: January 6. https://joblist.mla.org/job/2000703/university-of-miami-a-and-s_eng_assistant-professor-english-british-romanticism/
Word on the Street[]
William & Mary Global Victorian Literatures[]
- Still a little early, but in case anyone has any news! (10/21)
- Here's something a little weird: a colleague sent me a version of W&M's job ad posted on their department FB page. The ad was a poster calling for applications before *November* 9th. But their internal HR page and the HEJ call both listed 10/10 as the deadline. Anyone know what's up with that? (10/31)
- (10/31)—the poster also has different requirements than the job call on HEJ, which asked for teaching and research statements?. Odd
- (11/13): Zoom interview request
- (12/9): campus visits requested
Vassar Global Anglophone 19th-Century Literature[]
- Definitely too early, but still – share your news if you got it! (10/21)
- There's a VAP in the department that does what the job calls for—does anyone know if this is an inside hire?
- ^Sure seems like an inside hire. If this is the case, asking for a long list of required materials reflects extra badly on the search committee.
- He did his PhD in "idealism" and seems to have pivoted for job market legibility reasons—maybe the call they're putting out is to see if there's a better "fit"?
- It's generally not that useful to speculate about these things, or publicly about an adjunct's qualifications for a TT job. In my experience, if a school really wants to hire its VAP, they'll arrange the search for a strange time of year, or otherwise bury it. Sometimes they'll even just move the person over to a TT line. So, it's pretty clear that Vassar wanted applications. Does the VAP usually have an advantage? Of course. Do they often get the job? Yes. Does that mean all such searches are rigged, and that no one else is genuinely considered? No.
- (11/13): Zoom interview request (narrowed down to 10 candidates)
- (12/18): Did anyone hear back after interviews?
- (12/18): campus visits requested
Carleton 19th Cent British/Transatlantic[]
- request for additional materials (11/10) (x3 request received 11/13)
- (11/21): Zoom interview request (x2)
- (11/24): Rejection
- R: to the above commenter, did you receive an additional materials request?
- R: Not the OP, but I got a rejection without moving forward. They sometimes keep everyone who has moved forward "active" until someone gets the job.
- R: Thank you! That's helpful to know. I figured it was a no, since interview requests went out, but wondered why I hadn't received notification of that rejection after they'd reached out for more materials.
- 12/16: campus visit requested
Notre Dame History of the Novel (Pre-1900) (Liberal Studies program)[]
- Has anyone heard from them?
- no word as of 11/15...
- Zoom interview + additional materials requested 11/17
- (12/9): campus visits requested
Providence College, Romanticism[]
- anyone hear anything?
- Nothing yet (11/13).
- Any news? (12/5)
- phone call requesting to schedule a zoom interview (12/4) (x2, call received 12/5)
- R: Congrats! is 11 a typo?
- R: Yes! Sorry, revised it.
- Did anyone hear back after interviews?
- R: received a phone call for campus visit invite
- Strange. I was informed that invites would be made in late December or early January. Either way, maybe it's time to give up hope.
St Thomas, Assistant Professor of Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Anyone hear anything? (11/18)
- interview request 11/26
- Official rejection (01/09) Though I figured, since I didn't get the initial interview request
Belmont University, Assistant Professor of English. Specialty: British literature (Victorian Literature)
- Has anyone heard anything from them? (12/2)
- (12/4): Rejection (x3-12/4)
Illinois Wesleyan University
- Has anyone heard from them? Also, the MLA joblist's due dates seem to be incorrect quite often (12/3)
- I received an invitation for additional materials on 11:7 and haven’t heard anything since. (12/3)
- according to anglophone page interview requests went out.
University of Miami
- any news? (1/5)
- I submitted by the “priority” deadline and haven’t heard anything yet (1/5)
- anything? (1/14)
- No news here (1/14)
Emory University
- any news? (1/9)
- Zoom interviews conducted Week of 1/9