#1. Connecticut College: Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies
The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor. We are seeking a scholar with expertise in trans studies, mixed race studies, disability studies, and/or transnational LGBTQ studies. Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience teaching in gender and women’s studies or related fields including feminist and queer theory as well as social justice activism.
A PhD is strongly preferred in gender and women’s studies, feminist studies, or a closely related interdisciplinary field. Candidates with meaningful community engagement experience are preferred.
The Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Department is committed to interdisciplinary, intersectional, transnational feminist, and queer inquiry. We emphasize a strong theoretical and praxis focus in our curriculum and research. We have a departmental culture that supports the cultivation of rich intellectual collaboration both within the department and outside of it, and offer ample opportunities for pedagogical creativity and development. We value teacher scholars whose work foregrounds social transformation and community engagement.).
#2. The Ohio State University: Department of African American and African Studies
Assistant Professor, Black Sexualities
Position Overview
The Ohio State University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of African American and African Studies to start Autumn 15, 2024. Candidates welcome to apply whose research and teaching focuses on the intersections of sexuality, race, and gender with an emphasis on Black experiences and perspectives. We invite interdisciplinary scholars who approach the study of sexualities and Blackness through intersectional and/or transnational lenses. We are interested in candidates whose scholarship and teaching examine, for example, sexuality and constructions of racial deviance and exploitation; the relationship of conviviality, joy, and international liberatory activism; and/or sexuality and conservative, cross-border, political activist coalitions. We seek candidates whose scholarship challenges, complicates, and re-defines understandings of Black sexualities and whose promise of academic expertise strengthens the Department’s commitment to advance social justice discourses and the department’s vision of championing a full account of determinant forces of Black life in its global historical and sociological dimensions. Applications from scholars grounded in interdisciplinary Black Studies, Black feminist, and Black queer methodologies with a demonstrated history of community engagement and/or community-based approaches to scholarship are especially welcome. We also seek applications from collaborative scholars whose work is forward-looking in the praxis of Black Studies. The successful candidate will teach courses across the full range of the department’s curriculum, from introductory to upper division seminars, as well as general education courses and those that reflect their research expertise.
#3. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor: Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Applications for 2024-2025 Frankel Institute Fellowship, “Jewish/Queer/Trans.”
In this theme year, we aim to explore in the broadest possible ways how queer/trans studies intersect with studies of Jews, Jewishness, Judaism, and indeed Jewish Studies itself, from the full range of humanistic, artistic, activist, and social science perspectives. We thus intend to assemble a group of scholars, writers, and artists that will allow us to explore this set of fundamental issues across the temporal gamut of ancient to the present and in Middle Eastern, African, Asian, European, and American societal contexts.
We invite applicants to consider how Jewish Studies might thicken queer and trans studies. At the same time, we wish to inquire into how queer and trans studies might aid the interrogation of foundational categories deployed in Jewish Studies. In doing so, we seek to challenge social hierarchies, notions of sacred/profane, religious conceptions, political movements and structures, knowledge paradigms, and communal boundaries: all key elements in the history of studies of Jews and Judaism. That is, how can insights from queer and trans studies enrich and complicate our understanding of the dispersed, diverse, and shifting histories of Jewish sexual cultures and gender systems, as well as social, cultural, and racialized formations of Jewishness more broadly. We are particularly interested in approaches that create dialogue among the sub-fields of Jewish Studies, queer and trans studies that go beyond merely applying theoretical models to Jewish Studies.
The “Jewish/Queer/Trans” fellowship year will promote a tighter integration of queer/trans perspectives and methodologies into Jewish Studies, and contribute to the ongoing softening of boundaries between analyses focused on racial, sexual, or gendered differences.
What forms of analysis might queer and trans theory enable in the study of Jewish texts, cultures, and history?
- How might non-Ashkenazi or non-contemporary forms of Jewish ritual, theology, textuality, domesticity, kinship, or musical arts decenter Eurocentric defaults in queer and trans studies?
- How might queering and trans-ing our understandings of key concepts like “archive,” temporality, historiography, and data allow for expanded inquiries within Social Science-based and Humanities-attuned subfields within Jewish studies?
- What happens to Jewish Studies methods and archives when Queer of Color critiques are deployed to its sources and subjects?
The cohort will emphasize collaborative projects and outputs; building support and mentoring networks; and public-facing scholarship.
I’ll say again what I’ve said before: Forgive them, Lord, they know exactly what they do.
Emilie Green says
Successful candidates will have demonstrated experience teaching in gender and women’s studies or related fields including feminist and queer theory as well as social justice activism.
A PhD is strongly preferred in gender and women’s studies, feminist studies, or a closely related interdisciplinary field. Candidates with meaningful community engagement experience are preferred.
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That someone would spend the time and the money (to reach a PhD level, setting aside the foolishness of the effort, = a lotta moola) to get a crappy job teaching this nonsense.
Westman says
Let us attempt a translation.
Connecticut College : Position Available. Globe-trotting demonstration-attending angry sexually deviant hedonist with a PhD and former teaching experience in Feminist Ideology to spread future misandry, instability, and unhappiness among female college students. Unique hair, metal piercings, and tattoos are acceptable.
As a Visiting Professor you will never have tenure, are unlikely to be employed for a second year, and a higher salary could be obtained wielding a spatula at Wendy’s. But as we educators know, as do journalists, it’s all about having access to influence youth. You should be paying the College for access to those sponge-brains.
Westman says
Could it be that Capitalism is turning our universities into an economic success for administrators and a failure at preparing students for successful employment?
An edict of retail sales is, “Give the customers what they want.” Education should give students what they need. At least two of the position offers, above, are for instuctors to attract socially insecure students, who are uncertain about their academic objectives, and give them no skills leading to security.
Every system, eventually, is gamed. There are more than 1.5 million NGOs registered in the US. Maybe a third are legitimately making some beneficial difference in society. Too many are simply a group of people who advertise to collect charity money, do enough to claim value, and pay most of it to themselves as administrative salaries.
Is this what universities have become? Gamed? Some of the most expensive universities have almost as many administrators as instructors. They even have side businesses in sports. How could that promote reasonable education costs for students? Are these excess administrators offering higher quality for student education or are they employed to find donation money for administrative strata and run side businesses?
James Lincoln says
US Universities had reached their peak In the 1950s.
It has been downhill ever since.
tgusa says
I am waiting for the day that these leftists in academia government or elsewhere come out and gleefully announce that they have appointed the first genetically authentic primate to serve as their president administrator professor or representative. Don’t laugh, it is coming.
OLD GUY says
And it cost how much to attend one of these higher learning instituions? Instead of teaching this load of crap, they need to teach life skills and an education that will allow you to get a job and support your self.
James Lincoln says
Sonny Corleone:
“Whatcha go to college? To get stupid?…”