Assistant Professor of English

Apply now Job no: 551920 Work type: Instructional Faculty – Tenured/Tenure-Track Location: Long Beach Categories: Unit 3 - CFA - California Faculty Association, Faculty - Letters/Humanities, Tenured/Tenure-Track, Full Time

California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institution (AANAPISI). CSULB earned the prestigious Seal of Excelencia in 2023, joining a distinctive group of colleges and universities who have been recognized for its commitment to Latine/x student success. CSULB is committed to serving diverse students and has established and actively supports the Black Excellence Collegium, dedicated to promoting Black excellence and advancing Black Student Success, and El Concilio for Latinx Success at the Beach, whose mission is to build capacity and promote inclusive servingness across initiatives and efforts for the benefit of all students.

The President’s Equity & Change Commission is dedicated to achieving inclusive excellence in our community and culture and throughout the university. CSULB’s Beach 2030 University Action Plans prioritize engaging all students; expanding access to higher education; promoting intellectual achievement; building community; and cultivating resilience.

• Ph.D. in English or closely related field. Degree at time of application or official notification of the completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2026.
• Specialization in African American/Black Diasporic Literature and Literary Studies with generalist competency in American Literature
• Demonstrated potential for or evidence of excellence in teaching at the college level, both undergraduate and graduate courses
• Demonstrated potential for or evidence of successful research and publication
• Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population, including low socioeconomic and first-generation students

• Experience in teaching courses in African American/Black Diasporic Literatures and Literary Studies
• Expertise in African American/Black Diasporic Literatures and Literary Studies
• Ability to teach American literatures by U.S. writers of color that spans multiple eras/movements/genres, including, for instance, realist, naturalist, modernist, postmodern, postcolonial, transnational, womanist, feminist, queer, and/or genre literature in novel, poetry, drama, and non-fiction
• Ability to teach critical theory and its histories (e.g., postcolonial theory, decolonial theory, race theory, gender theory, New Historicism, ecocriticism, Black literary theory, etc.) particularly as they have shaped the study of African American and Black Diasporic Literatures
• Potential for developing campus-wide interdisciplinary programs with other departments such as Africana Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, American Indian Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative World Literature, Sociology, and/or History
• Potential for developing service-learning courses, pursuing community-based research, and/or engaging in other high-impact pedagogical practices
• Experience successfully working with populations demographically and/or socioeconomically similar to the CSULB student body
• Experience mentoring or supporting students using inclusive and culturally relevant teaching strategies in a diverse classroom

The Department of English’s mission is to graduate students who value imagination, creativity, and expression, and who will advocate for these habits of mind in their own writing, research, and teaching. Our faculty and students are dedicated to the study of the utility, intricacy, and beauty of cultural production in English, and they advance the understanding and appreciation of these virtues through original research and creative activities.

The diversity and complexity of the human experience is represented throughout the entire range of literature written in English, and we believe that intensive study of literature and writing advances the humanistic values of discovery, critique, compassion, and innovation. Our practices and methods…