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Job Number : 10-466
Position Title : Full or Associate Professor
Hiring Unit : Division of Arts & Humanities - Literature
Salary : Salary will be based on published UC pay scales.
Closing Date : Application deadline is November 15, 2012
Job Description : The Department of Literature within the Division of Arts & Humanities at the University of California, San Diego (http://literature.ucsd.edu) seeks candidates for the Rebeca Hickel Endowed Chair in Elizabethan and Early Modern Literature, whose research, teaching, or service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. Preference will be given to scholars at the associate or full professor level.

We welcome candidates who have demonstrated the highest standards of scholarly contribution and professional activity; who will actively participate in our department's multilingual, transnational projects; whose methodological interests could include cultural studies, materialist approaches (corporeal and economic), and multilingual examinations. Ability to teach courses on such topics as early modern drama, early modern poetry and prose, a survey of British literature, and the age of empires, is desirable. Special interests, such as global Shakespeare, transatlantic British literary studies, and transnational literary projects, are especially welcome.  Demonstrated commitment to excellence by providing leadership in teaching, research, and service towards building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment is preferred.

Faculty members teach and supervise students at the undergraduate and graduate level.  The level of appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
To Apply : Submit all application documentation using UCSD’s online Recruit web page https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF00234

Please apply the following to your application:
Literature (10-466)

Required documents:
  1. a cover letter,
  2. current CV,
  3. contact names and requested information (click on prompt to contact references, which generates an email to references),
  4. writing samples. Upload .doc or .pdf format. Request dossier services to upload reference letters to your online application web page,
  5. a personal statement summarizing contributions to diversity and leadership. Contribution to diversity statements could include an attention to diverse learning needs, engaging learning fields of diverse communities, pedagogical methods that address learning needs of students from diverse backgrounds, awareness of inequities in education and research, track record of specific activities that address and mitigate inequities, follow-up of positive impact on under-represented students, and specific plan of activities and follow-up at UCSD (http://facultyequity.ucsd.edu/Faculty-Applicant-C2D-Info.asp).
Proof of authorization to work in the U. S. will be required prior to employment (Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1985).
UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.

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