Assistant Professor of Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies

University of Oregon

Due December 15

The University of Oregon’s Department of English invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor in Asian American and/or Pacific Islander Literary and Cultural Studies to begin in fall 2025. The successful candidate will have a PhD in English, Asian American Studies, American Studies, Indigenous, Race, & Ethnic Studies, or a related interdisciplinary field. The new faculty member will join an energetic intellectual community with an established reputation in multi-ethnic literary studies, environmental humanities, digital humanities, disability studies, and comic studies, among others. We welcome applicants working on Asian American literary and cultural studies in any historical period and in any field of Asian American and/or Pacific Islander Studies. In addition to the subfields named above, possible research agendas might include (but are not limited to) indigeneity, decolonization, postcolonial studies, comparative studies within the Global South, labor studies, migrant and/or refugee studies, transpacific ecologies, gender and sexuality studies, and media studies (including TV and film, games, and pop culture studies).

Learn more about this opportunity here.