Assistant Professor of English and African American and African Studies

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the Department of English at the University of Virginia invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position, beginning Fall 2022, at the assistant professor rank, in Anglophone literatures of Africa & the African Diaspora, including but not limited to any of the following areas of concentration: continental African literatures, black Caribbean literatures, U.S. African American literature, black British, and black Canadian literature. 

Candidates must have Ph.D in hand by May 30, 2022. The successful candidate will show a strong record of interdisciplinary research in African and African Diaspora studies, an ability to teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and a commitment to provide service to the Department, to the University, and to the profession.


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