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Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature - Department of English J

Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, United States, 08028

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Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature - Department of English

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Work type: Regular Full-Time
Location: Glassboro, New Jersey
Categories: Faculty - College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Position: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities and Literature

Employment Type: Full-time

The English Department at Rowan University seeks applicants for a tenure-track position specializing in Digital Humanities, with a primary literary focus in British, US, and/or global Anglophone or Medical Humanities and literature. We are seeking a colleague with an innovative research and teaching agenda and the initiative to take on an essential role in building the Digital Humanities and our Digital Humanities Center through interdisciplinary collaboration at and beyond Rowan. We value inclusive pedagogies which foster access for marginalized and underrepresented students. We are seeking a colleague with an innovative research and teaching agenda and the initiative to take on an essential role in building the Digital Humanities and our Center for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR), a new research center dedicated to developing faculty and student research in the Digital Humanities through collaboration, digital skill-building, and public programming. Here is the link to our Digital Humanities Center: https://chss.rowan.edu/centers/cdhr/

We understand the value of Digital Humanities to lie in the reciprocity between the “digital” and the “humanities,” that is, the capacity of digital tools and methods to open literary texts to new forms of enquiry, and the capacity of literary texts and literary-critical methods to grapple with a world increasingly shaped by digital technologies. Digital Humanities affords us the opportunity to conceptualize information in ways that expand our current understandings of literature, technology, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate a commitment to Digital Humanities in both research and teaching and will be expected to teach the department’s critical methods sequence as well as introductory courses and upper-level electives and seminars in Digital Humanities and/or their field(s) of specialization. At Rowan, the English Department is literature-based; Composition, Creative Writing, and Film are housed in departments in a separate College. A 2/2 teaching load is guaranteed for the first five years.

A record of peer-reviewed scholarship, excellent teaching (including a willingness to develop Rowan Core courses in Digital Humanities, online courses, and interdisciplinary courses), and a commitment to academic service are required for tenure.

Qualifications:

Ph.D. in English or a related field, completed by July 1, 2025.
Active research agenda and teaching excellence.

Starting Date: September 1, 2025.

General Information:

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is the second-largest college at Rowan with seven departments, seven interdisciplinary programs, and seventeen majors. The College also has a number of established graduate programs, is in the process of developing more programs at the Master’s and Doctoral level, and houses a number of Centers and Institutes that serve both research and pedagogical functions. CHSS places a strong emphasis on exceptional research, teaching, and service. Our mission is three-fold: breaking conceptual, disciplinary, and social boundaries; creating, expanding, and sharing knowledge; and tackling local and global challenges to benefit our changing world.

We actively support faculty research and strive to include faculty as full partners in governance within the College.

The English Department serves more than 200 English majors as well as English minors and students in related degree programs (including Liberal Studies, Literacy Studies, and American Studies); we also offer general education courses in literature as part of the Rowan Core. Our departmental mission is to teach and model the critical analysis of literature, its history, and its social contexts.

Contact:

Candidates should submit a letter of application and a curriculum vitae, including names and contact information of three references, to Dr. Catherine Wilcoxson and Dr. Dustin Crowley, Search Committee Co-Chairs, via the Rowan University Career Site PageUp at https://jobs.rowan.edu .

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is closed; applications received by December 20, 2024, will receive full consideration. Initial interviews will be conducted via Zoom; three finalists will be invited to campus interviews in early to mid-February.

Notes:

Rowan University values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity.

All positions are contingent upon budget appropriations.

Advertised: Dec 3 2024 Eastern Standard Time
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