ENGLISH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – MODERNISM
The Department of English at the University of British Columbia seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modernism. We would welcome expertise in sexuality studies and / or in science and technology studies.
Applicants must have a PhD (or be near completion), publications, and experience teaching at the post-secondary level; they are expected to provide strong evidence of active and excellent research, and demonstrate a record of, or potential for, high quality teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active program of research, teaching, graduate supervision, and service.
Applicants should submit a letter of application, a current CV containing full contact information, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and an example of their published research. Applications must be submitted on-line at http://facultycareers.ubc.ca/16186 by October 31, 2013. In addition, applicants should arrange for three confidential letters of reference to be forwarded by the same deadline via email attachment to english.recruitment@ubc.ca
Position start date: July 1, 2014. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Please consult the departmental website for details on our programs, faculty, and activities: www.english.ubc.ca.
UBC hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
ENGLISH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR – CANADIAN LITERATURE
The Department of English at the University of British Columbia seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Canadian Literature. We would welcome expertise in poetics, cognitive poetics, ecocriticism, and / or indigenous literature.
Applicants must have a PhD (or be near completion), publications, and experience teaching at the post-secondary level; they are expected to provide strong evidence of active and excellent research, and demonstrate a record of, or potential for, high quality teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active program of research, teaching, graduate supervision, and service.
Applicants should submit a letter of application, a current CV containing full contact information, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and an example of their published research. Applications must be submitted on-line at http://facultycareers.ubc.ca/16187 by October 31, 2013. In addition, applicants should arrange for three confidential letters of reference to be forwarded by the same deadline via email attachment to english.recruitment@ubc.ca.
Position start date: July 1, 2014. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Please consult the departmental website for details on our programs, faculty, and activities: www.english.ubc.ca.
UBC hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We especially welcome applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
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Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014-2015)
“Energy / Materialism / Infrastructure”
Value: $46,000 CAD
In conjunction with an on-going research project on oil, energy and culture, the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta is sponsoring a Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) for the 2014-2015 academic year (July 2014-June 2015). The theme of this PDF is “Energy / Materialism / Infrastructure.” Junior scholars engaged in work across the disciplines, who have defended their dissertations within the past three years (January 1, 2011-March 1, 2014), and whose research falls within the range of issues mapped out by this theme, are welcome to apply.
“Energy / Materialism / Infrastructure” concerns the social, cultural and political possibilities and/or limits generated by the dominant forms of energy used in a given period. Potential fellows will be engaged in research on topics and issues such as:
– the analysis of representations, narratives and discourses of energy and/or material resources within different cultural forms and media;
– the social, political and cultural force exerted by existing forms of physical infrastructure, including their impact on political change and social justice;
– the role played by access to resources in shaping the varied structures (material as well as immaterial) that make up modernity;
– new materialisms and/or other philosophical and theoretical discourses related to energy, resources, and infrastructure;
– the shape and character of post-petrocarbon culture and society;
– public policy with respect to energy and infrastructure, especially as this relates to social change and development.
The research carried out by this PDF will generate a better understanding of the connections between energy, society, and culture, and the difficulties and opportunities that will arise as global society transitions to other energy forms and practices.
Finally, there may be an opportunity for this PDF to teach a one-term undergraduate class, for which they would be separately compensated.
Application Deadline: October 31, 2013
Application Materials: Please include: (1) a cover letter describing your PhD project, the date of your PhD defence, and the fit of your postdoctoral research with the theme of this PDF; (2) a full CV, including the names and contact information of three individual who may be contacted for reference letters; and (3) a writing sample (25 pages or less). Send these materials, either as .docx or .pdf, to: imre@ualberta.ca . Make sure to specify “CRC PDF application – name” in the subject line.
Imre Szeman
Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies
Killam Annual Professor
Professor of English, Film Studies and Sociology
University of Alberta
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