USA Africa Dialogue Series - Position at Duke

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From: "Lisa M. Olds" <lisa.olds@duke.edu>
Date: December 10, 2021 at 3:15:24 PM CST
To: Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu>
Subject: Message from Tsitsi Jaji:



 

Dear Colleague,

 

Greetings to you and yours faring well in these difficult times. I am writing because Duke's English department is conducting a senior search (associate/full). Please find the advertisement text below. I write in hopes that you would share this with your networks, and indeed, that you might consider applying. 

 

This is an auspicious time to be joining the faculty of Duke's Arts and Sciences. Felwine Sarr and Annette Gabriel-Joseph have recently joined the Romance Studies department, and Eric Mvukiyehe has joined political science. In addition to our search in English, the history department is also hiring an Africa specialist. They will bring new energy to a community of Africanists across the university and the deans have shown serious commitment to directing resources toward the study of Africa. We look forward to Duke's programs in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa resuming when the pandemic eases, and to new opportunities opening up. 

 

Duke's strengths include the institutional support for interdisciplinary research and teaching (including growing resources for topics related to racial inequality) , the intellectual energy of the Franklin Humanities Institute and Africa Initiative, access to the National Humanities Center as both a fellow and a colleague, and our strong graduate student body. We currently have three English Ph.D. students specializing in African literature and several others in postcolonial studies. There is useful information about Duke's robust range of benefits including dual career assistance here.

 

North Carolina has a unique history of African cultural expression. It was here that Omar Ibn Said penned the only texts in a non-European language by an African enslaved in the US. Today, Durham's superintendent of schools, Dr. Pascal Mubenga, hails from the DRC, and the chancellor of our neighboring HBCU, North Carolina Central University, Dr. Johnson Akinleye, is Nigerian. And this year Zweli's Zimbabwean restaurant began operating one of Duke's dining halls.

 

Should you have questions about the position, please feel free to be in touch with me, as chair of the search committee (tsitsi.jaji@duke.edu).  

 

Best,

Tsitsi Jaji

 

Tsitsi Jaji, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, English and AAAS

 

 

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The Duke University English Department, located in Durham, North Carolina, USA, invites nominations and applications for a tenure track position in African literature and/or cultural studies at the rank of associate or full professor. The department seeks specialists working in any region or period, and we are especially interested in comparative methods, critical theory, digital humanities, ecocriticism, gender and sexuality studies, migration, and screen studies. Candidates with research interests in African language literatures are particularly encouraged to apply. Candidates should be committed to teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.

This hire is part of an effort to increase the number of faculty with global perspectives and expertise across core departments, with support from the Office of the Provost and funded by The Duke Endowment. The position begins January 1 or July 1, 2023. To apply, please submit through Academic Jobs Online a curriculum vitae; letter of application; evidence of teaching excellence; and a list of your top publications. The application address is: http://english.duke.edu/apply. ;

The committee welcomes letters of nomination for potential candidates. We ask that all nominations be sent to english@duke.edu, using "Africanist Search" as the subject line. 

The committee will begin its deliberations on January 4, 2022. Applications received by that date will be guaranteed full consideration.  

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lisa M. Rothberg-Olds

Staff Assistant

Duke Department of English

421 Chapel Dr.
302 Allen Bldg

Box 90015

Durham, NC 27708

919.684.2741

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