Job description
Location: Notre Dame, IN
Deadline: Oct 01, 2025 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description:The Program of Liberal Studies (PLS) seeks to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in English literature beginning August 2026. Duties will include research, teaching, and service. The area of research specialization is the history and theory of the novel, pre-1900. We are especially interested in applications from candidates with a broad liberal arts background. A scholarly focus on colonialism or the African diaspora is also particularly welcome. While this is a position in the novel, the successful candidate will be expected to teach the history of English poetry from the Renaissance to the present.
PLS is a multidisciplinary, liberal arts department with roughly 100 undergraduate majors. Founded in 1950, it has its own tenure-line faculty drawn from different disciplines and committed to an integrated program of studies grounded in the reading of core primary texts. PLS students move through a seminar sequence from the ancients to the contemporary world and also take subject-specific classes in literature, philosophy, theology, fine arts, intellectual and cultural history, political theory, mathematics, and the natural and social sciences. All PLS faculty teach seminars, as well as the courses in their respective disciplines. Teaching responsibility will be a 2-2 course load, including the Program’s seminars and its two required literature courses. The candidate may also contribute to other disciplinary-based courses in the department as appropriate and will advise undergraduate senior theses.
Qualifications:
Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. degree in Literature in English, or expect to have completed all requirements for that degree by August 2026. Strong publication program, evidence of superior teaching and readiness to lead seminars across periods and fields, and a commitment to undergraduate liberal arts education are expected. Salary and research support are more than competitive.
How to apply
To apply, visit https://facultyhandbook.nd.edu/?id=link-73597.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement
The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
