Tenure-Track Professor in Global Literatures and Media in English Present
Listed on 2026-10-11
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Education / Teaching
University Professor
The Department of English seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in global literatures and media in English from 1945 to the present. We welcome applications from innovative scholars working across any geographical region, methodological framework, orcultural context within the post-WWII era. Our primary goal is to identify an exceptional researcher and teacher whose work pushesthe intellectual boundaries of global literary and media studies and traces how English moves across national borders.
Open toscholars working on diverse literary genres and media landscapesincluding but not limited to book history, print culture, andtransmedia storytelling (i.e. cinema and television, video games,long-form narrative podcasts, radio, and new forms of visual and auditory storytelling).
The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2027. Thetenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, contributing to the intellectuallife of the Faculty and University by pursuing a full program of scholarly research and course development, advising undergraduate and graduate students, overseeing independent research projects,and engaging in an appropriate amount of service.
In Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tenure-track positions are untenured.
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