[Edling] Job - Black Expressive Culture Across the Diaspora at UMBC

[Francis M. Hult via Edling]

*Associate Professor in the area of Black Expressive Culture Across the
Diaspora*

The Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) seeks a tenured Associate Professor in
the area 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.

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.

About the Program
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.
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. US News
and World Report regularly ranks UMBC in the top 10 of most innovative
universities, and the Chronicle of Higher Education recognizes UMBC as one
its “Great Colleges to Work For” 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.
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 https://apply.interfolio.com/95117. Please address questions
to Dr. Craig Saper, Interim Director, Language, Literacy, and Culture
doctoral program, llc at umbc.edu with the subject line “LLC Search.”
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