Tenure Track Assistant Professor in English with Specialization in Environmental Humanities at Colby College in Waterville, Maine

Job Description:

The Department of English at Colby College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Environmental Humanities, to begin fall 2025.

For this position we seek a scholar with demonstrated teaching excellence and strong record of research to deepen our offerings in literature and the environment; we are especially interested in candidates whose work incorporates Indigenous Studies and/or Global South approaches. Teaching responsibilities will include writing-intensive courses for first-year students and participation in a team-taught introductory course in Environmental Studies. Candidates can also expect to teach courses in their field of specialization at advanced levels and to supervise honors theses in their field. PhD must be in hand no later than August 2025.

The candidate will contribute to programming in the Environmental Humanities Initiative. Housed in the Center for Arts and Humanities, the Initiative includes faculty-led programs such as the week-long Summer Institute in Environmental Humanities, which annually gathers scholars from around the globe to collectively explore how the Environmental Humanities contribute to the theorization, imagination, and practice of socially just and ecologically hopeful futures for humans and nonhumans. More information about the Environmental Humanities Initiative can be found here: https://cah.colby.edu/initiatives/environmental-humanities/

Colby is a highly selective liberal arts college recognized for excellence in undergraduate education and close student-faculty interaction. We seek candidates who, through their scholarship, teaching and service will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the campus community. The English Department at Colby is unusual among liberal arts colleges in offering majors in English, in English with a concentration in Literature and the Environment, and in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. Many students from across campus also minor in English or in Creative Writing. We support a lively array of lectures, faculty work-in-progress seminars, and readings, and we foster both student and faculty research through grants and off-campus opportunities.

To apply, please submit applications through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/158414. Include cover letter, CV, contact information for three confidential references, a statement of teaching philosophy and research interests that demonstrates a commitment to equitable and inclusive teaching and a writing sample of no more than 25 pages. Review of materials will begin on December 15 and continue until the position is filled. We will contact candidates to schedule initial interviews in early February, and invite finalists to campus in late February. For further information, contact Professor Megan Cook, Department of English, chair of the search committee (megan.cook@colby.edu).

Colby is a private, coeducational liberal arts college that admits students and makes personnel decisions on the basis of the individual's qualifications to contribute to Colby's educational objectives and institutional needs. The principle of not discriminating on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, caste, national or ethnic origin, marital status, genetic information, political beliefs, veteran or military status, parental status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, physical or mental disability unrelated to the job or course of study requirements is consistent with the mission of a liberal arts college and the law.