[nativestudies-l] [Fwd: Native American Lit Position at UTSA]

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Subject: Native American Lit Position at UTSA
From:    "Jennifer Jensen" <jennifer.jensen at utsa.edu>
Date:    Tue, October 21, 2008 10:36 am
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Sent on behalf of Bridget Drinka:





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 Sald�var-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





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