Position Details:
This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person.
The Department of English at Texas Christian University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in American literature at the rank of assistant or associate professor to begin in August 2024.
We welcome candidates with a specialization in American literature to contribute to our undergraduate and graduate curriculum and to actively mentor and direct graduate students. Candidates with expertise in teaching and researching in areas with important social implications such as environmental studies (including from Indigenous perspectives), multiethnic literatures (especially Asian American), or law and literature are especially encouraged to apply. We see this position as building on recent hiring in the English department in decolonial and anti-racist pedagogies and practices as well as a recent cluster hire in research related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts.
The position carries a 3/2 teaching load (with a one course reduction for two years if pre-tenure), a competitive salary, and internal research support. In addition to teaching duties, the successful candidate will mentor undergraduate and graduate students, carry out a scholarly research agenda, and contribute service and leadership at the department and university levels.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our students’ liberal arts education and strongly held as central to our mission at Texas Christian University. Candidates who are intent on deepening this mission and whose work explores power, identity, and marginalization are encouraged to apply. We seek a colleague who views teaching, scholarship and community involvement as interwoven and inspiring endeavors.
Department Details:
The TCU Department of English has 35 full-time faculty members who lead two majors (English and Writing), three minors (English, Writing, and Creative Writing), an MA program and two PhD programs (English and Rhetoric and Composition). Faculty members are dedicated and productive teacher-scholars and university citizens and leaders. The department values and supports synergistic inquiry between the areas of study represented within the department as well as interdisciplinary connections with departments including Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies.
School/College Description:
Named for TCU’s founders, Addison and Randolph Clark, the AddRan College of Liberal Arts is home to the core academic disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. The College includes approximately 155 full-time faculty members, 13 departments (Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics, English, Geography, History, Modern Language Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Sociology & Anthropology, Spanish and Hispanic Studies, and Women & Gender Studies), and two units of Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (Army and Air Force). AddRan College departments confer 17 Bachelor of Arts and 7 Bachelor of Science degrees, a Bachelor of General Studies, an online master’s degree in Criminology and Criminal Justice, a Master of Liberal Arts degree, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees in History, English, and Rhetoric and Composition.
Application and Job Posting: https://jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assistant-associate-professor-in-american-literature-tcu-main-campus-texas-united-states