[nativestudies-l] Native American Lit Position at UTSA

[Lowe, Shelly]

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





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