<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear SLA members,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">FYI we are hiring in my department:  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor in the area of Black Expressive Culture Across the Diaspora, in the </span><a href="http://llc.umbc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Language, Literacy, and Culture Program</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> -- an interdisciplinary department at the </span><a href="http://umbc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The full job description is </span><a href="https://facultyjobs.umbc.edu/cwfac/en-us/job/493485/associate-professor-in-the-area-of-black-expressive-culture-across-the-diaspora" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">posted here</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> and below. Feel free to spread the word, and please reach out to me with any questions!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Christine Mallinson</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:mallinson@umbc.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">mallinson@umbc.edu</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Faculty Jobs at UMBC</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UMBC is currently monitoring COVID-19 and the impacts to our campus community and operations. The latest information is available at: </span></b><a href="https://covid19.umbc.edu/" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://covid19.umbc.edu/</span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor in the area of Black expressive culture across the Diaspora</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Job no:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> 493485<br><b>Work type:</b> Faculty<br><b>Location:</b> UMBC Campus<br><b>Categories:</b> Interdisciplinary, Africana Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, History, Modern Languages & Linguistics, Communications/Journalism</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Application Instructions:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Apply via Interfolio at:   </span><a href="https://apply.interfolio.com/95117" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://apply.interfolio.com/95117</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Department:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Language, Literacy and Culture</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For more information visit: </span><a href="https://llc.umbc.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://llc.umbc.edu/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Anticipated Start Date:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">August 31, 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About the Position:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks a tenured Associate Professor in the areas of Black Expressive Culture Across the Diaspora. We seek candidates with strong research productivity, experience teaching and mentoring doctoral students, and a commitment to the university’s mission of inclusive excellence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This interdisciplinary scholar would work across disciplines with specific areas of study in Black expressive culture with expertise in humanities-based theoretical and methodological traditions; expertise in various e-media literacies, digital humanities or related areas is also welcomed. We seek someone with a Ph.D. in humanities disciplines/fields such as American Studies, History, Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Africana Studies or Black Cultural Studies, Modern Languages and Media Studies or other related interdisciplinary humanities fields. The successful applicant will contribute fully to our interdisciplinary doctoral-only program, especially teaching core doctoral courses including introductory theory and methods courses, and directing doctoral dissertations. The successful candidate will have opportunities to work with our partnering departments and have a commitment to working with students with diverse life experiences and from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">About the Program</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We are an interdisciplinary program serving only doctoral students that investigates the concepts and processes of language, literacy, and culture in relationship to social, historical, technological, and ideological formations. We advocate for socio-cultural and linguistic diversity in research, practice, and policy, with special emphasis on social justice, change, equity, power, and identity. Our intellectual community includes a small core group of faculty members in the doctoral program and more than 30 affiliate faculty from more than nine programs and departments across our campus with the intent of offering graduate students synergistic, collaborative, community- and place-based approaches to research especially in relation to the Baltimore region.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work alongside our nationally recognized and award-winning faculty in our partnering departments and in research centers like the Dresher Center for the Humanities. We are deeply committed to supporting new faculty as they work on their research and publications. UMBC is a dynamic and growing public research university located in the Baltimore-Washington Corridor. <i>US News and World Report</i> regularly ranks UMBC in the top 10 of most innovative universities, and the <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i> recognizes UMBC as one its </span><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/greatcolleges18" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">“Great Colleges to Work For”</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> in categories including cooperative governance, compensation, teaching environment, and work-life balance. UMBC is especially proud of the diversity of its student body, and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position. Our faculty and campus community have a strong commitment to equity and social justice. We encourage applications from women, underrepresented minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submit a letter of application with attention to research, teaching and mentoring graduate students; CV; statement of commitment to diversity and inclusiveness; two peer-reviewed publications; two course syllabi; and, names and contact information for three references by December 1, 2021, to Interfolio at </span><a href="https://apply.interfolio.com/95117" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://apply.interfolio.com/95117</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">. Please address questions to Dr. Craig Saper, Interim Director, Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program, </span><a href="mailto:llc@umbc.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">llc@umbc.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> with the subject line “LLC Search.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Screening of Applications Begins:<br>Review of application materials will begin <b>December 1, 2021</b> and will continue until the position is filled.   About UMBC:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">UMBC, an honors university serving more than 11,000 undergraduates and 2,000 graduate students, is one of two public universities in Maryland to achieve the “doctoral/research university-extensive” Carnegie classification. Located just outside Baltimore and 45 minutes from Washington, DC, the campus is growing rapidly under dynamic leadership.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Our UMBC community redefines excellence in higher education through an inclusive culture that connects innovative teaching and learning, research across disciplines, and civic engagement. We will advance knowledge, economic prosperity, and social justice by welcoming and inspiring inquisitive minds from all backgrounds. The successful candidate will join a department with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence, and will be expected to contribute actively to these efforts (</span><a href="https://diversity.umbc.edu/)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://diversity.umbc.edu/).</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">COVID-19 Vaccination</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The University of Maryland has made the safety of our students, faculty and staff, and our surrounding communities a top priority. As part of that commitment, the University System of Maryland (USM) recently announced that students, faculty, and staff on USM campuses this fall, including UMBC, are required to be vaccinated against COVID. As a prospective and/or a new employee at UMBC, you will be required to comply with the University’s vaccination protocol. Proof of full vaccination will be required at the start of employment. Further information is available at: </span><a href="https://covid19.umbc.edu/vaccine/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://covid19.umbc.edu/vaccine/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Equal Opportunity Statement:<br>UMBC is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women, minority group members, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.Title IX:<br>As an institution that receives federal financial assistance, UMBC adheres to Title IX and does not discriminate on the basis of sex. </span><a href="https://oei.umbc.edu/gender-discrimination-sexual-misconduct/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For more information about Title IX and contact information for Title IX Coordinator click here.</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Accommodation:<br>If you require a reasonable accommodation for a disability for any part of the employment process, please contact th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