English Seeks Assistant Professor

The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position to begin fall semester 2025 (late August 2025), with a 2/2 course load. The appointment will be for an assistant professor in literature and culture/media in English produced at any time after the turn of the 20th century through the present day with a primary focus on colonialism and its afterlives; postcolonialism, decolonialization; migration; or transnational/ transcontinental/hemispheric studies. 

The University of Minnesota is a top-ranked research university situated in the heart of the arts- and culture-rich Twin Cities metro. The Department of English serves approximately 400 majors and thousands of undergraduate and graduate students from many different disciplines. It houses both a distinguished MA/PhD program in literature and an outstanding MFA program in creative writing. Faculty engage with a wide range of critical, theoretical, historical, and interdisciplinary methodologies and epistemological approaches to the study and creation of literature in all genres, film, and cultural analysis.

Faculty are expected to maintain an active program of scholarly research and publication, teach undergraduate and graduate courses, advise and mentor students, and contribute service to the department, college, university, and profession. The successful candidate should excel at teaching and mentoring students who are broadly diverse in race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender and gender identification, nationality and national origin, sexual orientation, disability, religious and political beliefs.

Application materials are due by Friday, October 11, 2024. For complete qualifications details and required application materials, see the full job ad on the University of Minnesota’s job postings.