Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois

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Faculty Positions Available

Writing Studies Assistant Professor. Full-time, tenure-track appointment in the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To participate in an active, interdisciplinary writing studies program. Teaching experience and a promising research agenda required in any area of writing studies and rhetoric including, but not limited to: rhetorical theory; digital literacies; writing theory; historical, linguistic, or sociocultural research on writing. The target starting date of appointment is August 16, 2012. PhD in pertinent area required at time of appointment. Please create your candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload initial application materials to this system. To ensure full consideration, submit letter, curriculum vitae, a 1-3 page description of dissertation or current research projects, and writing sample by October 31, 2011. Select applicants will be asked to submit letters of recommendation at a later date. For further information, contact Amy Rumsey (rumsey@illinois.edu, 217-333-2390). Salary commensurate with qualifications. Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity (http://www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

African-American Literature, Assistant Professor.  Full-time, tenure-track appointment in the Department of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We invite applications from candidates working in any area and/or period of African-American literature and culture, broadly conceived.  Ph.D. expected at time of appointment.  Target starting date is August 16, 2012.  Salary competitive.

To ensure full consideration, create your candidate profile through https://jobs.illinois.edu and submit initial application materials by November 4, 2011:  letter of application, curriculum vitae, a 2-3 page description of dissertation or current research project, writing sample, and contact information for three professional references.  Letters of recommendation may be requested electronically from referees at a later date.

For further information about our department, please see http://www.english.illinois.edu/.  Widely recognized for its standing in American literature and cultural studies, our research-intensive department includes faculty with strong commitments to interdisciplinary fields both within and beyond the department.  The successful candidate will join an active intellectual community with wide-ranging interests in approaches such as diaspora studies, critical race studies, queer studies, feminist studies, print culture, postcolonial studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.  Questions about the position or application procedures may be directed to the search committee chair, Professor Siobhan Somerville, at sbs@illinois.edu.  Illinois is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity.  (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu)

Nominate an Outstanding Teacher

Students, have you taken a course with an outstanding teacher? Teachers, do you have a colleague whose work in the classroom you would like to see rewarded? If so, please nominate him or her for an undergraduate teaching award.

Every year, the English Department bestows awards on its own outstanding teaching assistants and instructors, and it also nominates outstanding undergraduate teachers  (professors, instructors, and teaching assistants) for campus teaching awards. The English Department has a history of winning more teaching awards than any other department in the university. 

If you would like to nominate one or more of our dedicated teachers you can pick up a paper form in Room 200 of the English Building or use our simple web-based form.  Instructors in Rhetoric, Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, the Writer's Workshop, and Film are all eligible. Please note that these nominations are for undergraduate teaching only.

Click here for nomination form.

English Department Statement on Chief Illiniwek

The faculty of the Department of English find Chief Illiniwek an inappropriate symbol or mascot for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While we understand that in the eyes of many supporters of the Chief Illiniwek symbol, the current version of Chief Illiniwek looks like a more respectful image than many other Native American sports mascots, we strongly believe that such stereotypical, oversimplified, and inaccurate representations are out of place in a university environment, where they miseducate the wider public and the members of our own university community, perpetuating a distorted cliché of Indian people and perpetuating the notion that Indian cultures are a plaything for the dominant culture. (Read more about Chief Illiniwek)

Instructions for SSN Detection

The following documents explain procedures and requirements for faculty and staff to comply with the program to eliminate the presence of social security numbers on computers used by university faculty and staff.