Assistant Professor, Contemporary American Fiction, Department of English, A&S

Job Overview

About the Department

The Department of English at the University of Cincinnati fosters the liberal arts by focusing on English-language texts across four mutually-interrelated disciplines: Literary and Cultural Studies; Creative Writing; Professional Writing; and Rhetoric and Composition. Our faculty and graduate students produce exciting, award-winning, and interdisciplinary scholarly and creative work; and our students at the graduate and undergraduate levels profit from richly varied yet integrated curricular offerings tailored to specific academic interests. The department offers a Bachelor of Arts in English; graduate certificates in Professional Writing and the Teaching of Writing; Master’s degrees in Literary and Cultural Studies and Professional Writing; and Doctorates in Creative Writing, Literary and Cultural Studies, and Rhetoric and Composition.

Job Overview

The Department of English at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Contemporary American Fiction, with an emphasis on the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We are a large department with students in multiple areas of study, including a highly ranked PhD program in Creative Writing. The department's current needs include undergraduate and graduate teaching in contemporary American fiction, the history of the novel, and related areas, as well as mentoring graduate students in the Literary and Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition programs. Faculty in the department are expected to sustain productive research programs, provide high-quality instruction, and engage in meaningful service to the department, university, profession, and community.

Intended start date: August 15, 2027.

Essential Functions

• Teach undergraduate and graduate English courses in Contemporary American Fiction, particularly the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as but not limited to American Literature Survey, Contemporary Novel, The History of the Novel, and Contemporary American Fiction.
• Develop and deliver course content, lectures, seminars, and discussion-based instruction in areas related to Contemporary American Fiction.
• Design course syllabi, assignments, examinations, and other instructional materials consistent with departmental and university learning objectives.
• Evaluate and assess student learning through written assignments, examinations, presentations, and other appropriate methods.
• Participate in curriculum and course development.
• Conduct research and publish scholarship in Contemporary American Fiction.
• Advise undergraduate and mentor graduate students in our Literary and Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition programs.
• Participate in professional service activities such as serving on departmental, college, and university committees.

Minimum Requirements

Prior to effective date of employment, a PhD in English or closely related field.

Application Process

Interested applicants should submit an online application including the following:

• Cover letter summarizing research and teaching interests and experience (if applicable)
• Current CV
• Article-length writing sample

Consideration of applications will begin on November 20 and continue until the position is filled.