20-21 c. American 2009

20th and 21st c. American
Boston University (visiting position for spring semester 2009 in contemporary American fiction) App. deadline: Oct. 15
 * Email request for additional information (week of 10/13)

Gettysburg College (20th Century American) App. deadline: Nov. 3

Hood College App. deadline: Nov. 3

James Madison University (American literature 1865-1950) App. deadline: Nov. 5

Lehigh University (post-1945 American) App. deadline: Oct. 31


 * got a friendly "sorry, no thank you" e-mail 10/23 (2)
 * Ditto 11/6


 * email request for dossier and writing sample 10/23 (2)

Long Island U Due 11/3
 * This search is cancelled
 * Anyone have more info on this?
 * Here's the relevant section of the email I got: "Unfortunately, the University Administration has just frozen all job searches and hiring for next year. We do hope to get permission to search next year for hiring in fall 2010."

Loyola University - New Orleans (Contemporary Literature and Critical Theory) App. deadline: November 10

Macalester College (20th and 21st Century American and US Ethnic Literatures) App. deadline: Nov. 1

Merrimack College (modern and contemporary American) Review of apps. begins Oct. 15


 * Dossier request 11/5 (2)

Miami University (American modernism/North American literature and culture 1900-1950) App. deadline: Oct. 31
 * JIL now says this position is canceled (11/3)

Mississippi State University (20th-Century American with a strong emphasis on Southern literature) App. deadline: Nov. 14
 * "Thanks, but no thanks" email 11/4


 * Dossier request 11/5

Missouri Southern State University (20th/21st-century American and British literature, with secondary expertise in postcolonial literature) App. deadline: Nov. 3

Murray State University (modern or contemporary American poetry) App. deadline: Nov. 14

Notre Dame Review begins 10/31

Penn State Shenango (Americanism and race/gender diversity) Due 10/20

Ack. 10/25

Pomona College (British and/or American Poetry since 1820) App deadline: Nov. 3

Providence College (any area of fiction 1960-present, with the ability to teach U.S. writers) App. deadline: Nov. 1

Queens College - CUNY App. deadline: Nov. 20

Quinnipiac University (20th-century British and/or American and the ability to teach both Modernist and contemporary literature) App. deadline: Nov. 1

Rollins College App. deadline: Oct 15

Texas A & M (contemporary U.S.-based literature) App. deadline: Nov. 1

University of Alaska-Fairbanks App. deadline: Nov. 3

University of British Columbia (Literatures in English since 1945) App. deadline: October 17th

University of California, Santa Barbara (Literature and Media) App. deadline: October 24th

University of Chicago (20th-Century British, American, or Anglophone) App. deadline: Nov. 3

University of Iowa (20th-century U.S. literature and culture) Review of apps. begins Oct. 15


 * email request for writing sample and dossier 10/23
 * Same request 10/28 (3)
 * Double ditto 10/28
 * Same request 10/29 (5)
 * Those of you who had requests for further info: when did you submit your online apps?
 * I submitted mine 10/5; Submitted mine 10/10; Submitted mine 10/13 ;Submitted mine 10/16 ;Submitted mine 10/17; Submitted application 10/18; Submitted mine 10/22

University of Nebraska - Lincoln (Twentieth Century Poetry, British or American) App. Deadline: Nov. 1

University of Nebraska, Kearney (post-WWII and contemporary American literature) Review of apps. begins Jan. 15

University of North Carolina, Pembroke (contemporary literature) Review of apps. begins Oct. 3


 * Phone Interview: 10/28

University of Tulsa (early 20th-Century American) App. deadline: Oct. 1

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (post-World War II/Contemporary American literature and culture) App. deadline: Nov. 15

Whitman College (modern and contemporary American) App. deadline: Oct. 31

Wisconsin, Eau Claire Due 11/3

Yale University (Twentieth Century Literature) App. Deadline: Nov. 1