Early American 2011

=Early and 19th Century American Jobs 2011= Add demographics at Talk:Early American 2011

Claremont Graduate University (California)
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Subfield/description: "The School of Arts & Humanities and the Department of Cultural Studies and the Department of English at Claremont Graduate University announce a tenure-track joint appointment in Cultural Studies and English....The ideal candidate will have strong scholarly credentials in some area of Latina/Latino Studies as well as 19th Century American Literature and Cultural and Literary Theory. Field of specialization is open but we are especially interested in candidates whose work is transnational or comparative and opens up new ways of thinking about gender and race within American hemispheric studies."

Cross-posted at Other Ethnic American 2011 and Comparative 2011

Deadline: Applications must be postmarked by October 15, 2010

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Denison U. (OH)
"Denison University seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in 19th-century American literature. Please specify your focus in 19th-century literature as well as any other areas of specialization in your research and teaching. Ability to engage issues of race and ethnicity in the classroom is desired. The 3/2 teaching assignment typically includes survey-level courses, first-year writing courses, and advanced courses of the candidate's design."

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 * Q: Denison currently lists a 19th c. Americanist at the Assistant Professor rank. Does anyone know why they're conducting this search?
 * A: That could be old information. There is an Assistant Professor who teaches pre-1900 but specializes in pre-1800.

Edgewood College (WI)
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"tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor to begin August 2011. Preference will be given to generalists with a primary strength in American Literature to 1900 and secondary strengths in 19th- century British Literature (composition and rhetoric a plus)."

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 * Cross-posted at Generalist 2011 & Romanticism, Victorian/19th 2011
 * Nothing against Edgewood, but $43,000 is not, as the posting claims, a competitive salary. The lowest salary listed in last year's Wiki is $44,000, but most are well into the 50s.

Fairfield University (CT)
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"tenure-track faculty position in 19th and early 20th century American Literature in a Transatlantic Context, at the Assistant Professor level . . . successful candidate will teach such courses as "Transatlantic Literature and Culture" and "American Realism and Naturalism." 3/3 course load.

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 * Cross-posted at 20-21 c. American 2011
 * Please note, under "required qualifications," the statement that "An internal candidate has been identified."

Notre Dame (University of)
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"Assistant Professor, American literature before 1900. Breadth and interest in various genres desirable."

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 * Searches in 20-21 c. American, African American, and Latino/a (Other Ethnic American 2011) also advertised. Not clear which has priority?

Pitzer College (California)
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Subfield/description: "'Pitzer College invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level beginning Fall 2011 in 19th and 20th Century American Literature, with a specialization in Chicana/o-Latina/o literatures. Also desirable are research and teaching interests in gender and sexuality, queer theory, and/or film and literature."'

Deadline: November 1, 2010 or until the position is filled

Cross-posted at Other Ethnic American 2011

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Princeton University
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"19th-20th - century American Literature. Candidates with expertise in theory and/or visual culture are especially welcome."

Deadline: November 1, 2010

Cross-posted at 20-21 c. American 2011

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Skidmore College
"tenure-track Assistant Professor of English with specializations in nineteenth-century American literature and Queer Theory, to begin September 2011. As part of a 3/2 teaching load, the successful candidate will teach a course on Queer Theory each year in the Gender Studies program and will occasionally offer English courses that can be cross-listed with Gender Studies."

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University of Chicago
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"The University of Chicago's Department of English invites applications for an assistant professorship in transnational American literatures from candidates with a special interest in the relation of racial formations to media histories and aesthetics from the colonial period to the present. We welcome applications from scholars working in a specific historical period or across periods, but especially from those who are creatively rethinking ethnic studies and its relation to other fields."

Deadline: Nov. 1

Cross-posted at 20-21 c. American 2011 and Other Ethnic American 2011

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University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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"Assistant Professor (tenure track) in American Literature prior to the Civil War and/or in US Multi-ethnic literature(s), to begin Fall 2011. Teaching assignment is 2/3 with possibility of teaching in a variety of interdisciplinary programs at both undergraduate and graduate levels."

Deadline: November 1, 2010

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Wayne State
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"Tenure-track assistant professorship in American Literature and Culture to 1800. Special areas of expertise may include, but are not limited to, inter-American, transatlantic, or comparative approaches; African diasporic literature; Native American studies; and/or the rise of national literary and print cultures."

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