English Assistant Professor - Early Modern

The Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in Anglophone Literature from 1500 to 1700 with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2025. This is a university year appointment. We especially encourage applicants with expertise in additional fields of study, transnational, and theoretical approaches of kinds that will align with the needs of our students and shape the evolution of literary and cultural studies over the next two decades.

We seek candidates who can teach well-known texts in Anglophone literary and cultural history, but who will also expansively reimagine the traditional curriculum to encompass global and comparative approaches, long chronologies, interdisciplinary inquiry, new methods, and unusual genres. We welcome applicants who approach their fields in capacious modes that may be less legible in traditional English or Comparative Literature departments.

Faculty in the English Language and Literature department are expected to produce original research publications, to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, to supervise and mentor graduate students, to contribute to service activities at the department, campus and system-wide levels and to contribute to U-M’s goal of creating and sustaining diverse, equitable and inclusive communities on campus and beyond. 

Please submit the following to http://apply.interfolio.com/148005 by October 14, 2024.

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Teaching philosophy statement (3-4 single spaced pages)
• Summary of teaching record
• E&E teaching reports or similar summaries
• Sample syllabi (if any, limit of 2)
• Other evidence of teaching experience & performance (if any)
• Research statement of current and future plans (3-4 single spaced pages)
• A diversity statement that demonstrates your commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through scholarship/research, and/or teaching/mentoring, and/or service/engagement (1-2 single spaced pages. There may be some overlap with your teaching and research statement).
• Letters of reference (minimum of 3)
• PDF of publications that best represent your work (no more than 50 pages)

Questions about applying for this position can be emailed to english.recruitment.coordinator@umich.edu.

Candidates must meet all degree requirements prior to the start date of the position. The University of Michigan is supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.