{"id":4238,"date":"2016-10-04T06:28:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T06:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2016-10-04T06:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T06:28:43","slug":"job-opening-assistant-professor-in-british-victorian-literature-eastern-michigan-university-10302016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2016\/10\/04\/job-opening-assistant-professor-in-british-victorian-literature-eastern-michigan-university-10302016\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Opening: Assistant Professor in British Victorian Literature, Eastern Michigan University (10\/30\/2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4239\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/emu.png\" alt=\"emu\" width=\"187\" height=\"104\" \/>Eastern Michigan University\u2019s English Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in British Victorian literature, with a strong interest in critical theory and cultural studies. Ideally, this candidate would be able to move between the 19th\u00a0century and early 20th\u00a0century, so the ability to teach modern British literature is a plus. Possible subfields in critical theory and cultural studies include, but are not limited to: colonialism and empire;\u00a0gender, racial, and class identities; visual, print and material culture; digital humanities; minority life and migrations.<\/p>\n<p>The successful candidate will demonstrate strong research potential and evidence of effective teaching. Teaching expectations include general education, upper division, and graduate literature courses\u00a0in a range of genres and topics. This faculty position also\u00a0offers the opportunity to develop and teach study abroad classes and cross-listed courses\u00a0with EMU\u2019s Women\u2019s and Gender Studies and Jewish Studies, as well as to serve as editor of our in-house publication,\u00a0<em>JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory,<\/em>\u00a0and collaborate on the digital humanities project, 19th\u00a0Century Jewish Life.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern Michigan University enrolls approximately 22,000 students and offers an outstanding benefits package and a collegial work environment.\u00a0EMU\u2019s distinct mix of comprehensive academic resources, strong community initiatives, and nationally-recognized undergraduate and graduate student research achievements set it apart.\u00a0The EMU campus is located in the Ypsilanti\/Ann Arbor community, five miles from downtown Ann Arbor and 35 miles west of Detroit, MI and Windsor, Canada.\u00a0EMU is an Equal Opportunity\/Affirmative Action Employer; women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>All applications must be made online at <a href=\"http:\/\/agency.governmentjobs.com\/emichedu\/default.cfm\">http:\/\/agency.governmentjobs.com\/emichedu\/default.cfm<\/a>. Please send letter, vita, three reference letters, writing sample (syllabi welcome too) by\u00a0October 30, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Michigan University\u2019s English Department invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in British Victorian literature, with a strong interest in critical theory and cultural studies. Ideally, this candidate would be able to move between the 19th\u00a0century and early 20th\u00a0century, so the ability to teach modern British literature is a plus. Possible subfields in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,1],"tags":[1144,1347,1018,1127,1524,1523,1525,1039,1235,1436],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}