Associate Professor

If you find the H-Net Job Guide useful please consider making a donation. Your donation will help ensure the continuing quality and availability of this and other H-Net services.Tenured: Associate Professor in Asian and Asian American StudiesThe Department of English and the Department of Global Languages and Cultures, in the College of Arts and Sciences, at Texas A&M University invite applicants for a full-time 9-month joint appointment as a tenured Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, to begin in Fall 2025.We welcome all qualified candidates, with a strong record of publication in transnational approaches to Asian and/or Asian American literatures and cultures. The position requires the ability to teach courses in literary and cultural studies, Asian Studies, and/or Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.Job Duties:Teaching, research, and service.Maintain an active research agenda.Contribute to the teaching mission of the departments (standard teaching load is 2 courses per semester).Fulfill service duties at the department, university, and disciplinary level.Engagement and experience in program-building and interest in course design (including introductory courses) to support undergraduate and graduate study and to build upon existing course offerings.Contribute to the College’s Asian American Diaspora Studies Working Group and Asian American Studies Task Force.The English department offers a PhD program, which includes a number of students with research interests in Korean and Korean Diasporic Literatures and Cultures. Global Languages and Cultures houses Asian Studies, the modern and classical language degree programs, including Chinese and Japanese, as well as Africana Studies, Jewish Studies, Religious Studies, and the PhD program in Hispanic Studies.Texas A&M is home to the nationally recognized Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the newly revamped Race and Ethnic Studies Institute. Texas A&M’s Cushing Memorial Library houses a rich collection of manuscripts pertaining to Asian and Asian American communities, histories, and cultural practices.Qualifications:The position requires a PhD in English, Comparative Literature, Asian Studies, Ethnic Studies, or related fields, with the ability to teach courses in one or more of these fields, including literary and cultural studies, Asian Studies, and/or Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. Candidates must have a strong record of publication in the interdisciplinary field of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. We especially invite candidates that have a record of program-building and course design (including introductory courses) to support undergraduate and graduate study, and to build upon existing course offerings in this field.Application Instructions:Please upload the following required materials to Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/150529):Personal statement to include philosophy and plans for teaching, research, and service as applicable.Three confidential letters of reference.Applications received by November 1, 2024 will receive full consideration.Contact Information:Vanita Reddy, Chair of the Search Committee: vdreddy@tamu.eduEqual Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.

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