FWD: Native American Lit Position at UTSA

[Ines Hernandez-Avila]

please pass the word:



Dear Colleagues,

The   Department  of English  at the University of Texas at San Antonio
seeks to hire a specialist in Native American Literatures to complement its
Ph.D. Program as well as  to offer courses at the undergraduate  and
master's  level.  The Ph.D. Program, inaugurated in  2002, is conceived as
a cross-cultural, literary and cultural studies program, with two nodal
points:  Latina/o literary and cultural studies and Rhetoric and
Composition Studies.  The Native American Literatures specialist would add
depth and range to the Ph.D. Program by exploring the intersections and
divergences between Native American Literary and Cultural Studies and
allied fields such as Latina/o and African American literary and cultural
studies.  The department has made significant commitments to enhancing its
 offerings  in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S., and currently staffs
three specialists in Latina/o Literary and Cultural Studies (Professor
Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Professor Norma Cantu, Associate Professor Ben
Olguin), and African American  Literary Studies  and Linguistics (Endowed
Chair Joycelyn Moody, Endowed Chair Sonja Lanehart).  In addition, the
Department includes faculty specialists in critical race and gender studies
 and  postcolonial studies that provide a collaborative critical mass
conducive to ground-breaking research and innovative teaching.  The
Department recently inaugurated a  Postdoctoral  Program with Dr. Kinitra
Brooks, a specialist in African American Women's writing, and also includes
distinguished guest faculty such as Norma Alarcon, a specialist in Feminist
Theory and Latina/o Literary Studies, who will be teaching a graduate
course in the 2009 Spring Semester.   We hope that you will encourage your
students to apply for this position.  Please post the advertisement and
distribute to any potential applicants.    

 

Best regards,

Bridget Drinka, Ph.D.

Chair, Department of English

University of Texas at San Antonio