Posting Summary

The Department of English at Rutgers University, which has a long history of scholarship and teaching in African American Literature and Literature of the African Diaspora, invites applications for the Cheryl A. Wall Postdoctoral Associate in African American and African Diaspora Literary Studies. We welcome applications from scholars pursuing research in these fields, broadly, and are especially interested in scholars engaged in black feminist critical approaches to literary and cultural study. Scholarship and teaching intersecting with African American poetics, black ecologies, performance studies, sound studies, black queer studies, or the black radical tradition are also especially welcome.

The Postdoctoral Associate fellowship position has the possibility of renewal for a second year and includes an annual salary of $60,000 and health benefits.


The recipients will each teach one course per academic year, serve as informal m...