Assistant Professor of English: Linguistics - Tenure Track

Working Title:
Assistant Professor of English:
Linguistics - Tenure Track

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Position Type: Instructional / Teaching Faculty

Position Status: Full-Time

FLSA Status: Exempt:
Not Eligible for Overtime

College/Division: College of Arts and Letters

Department: 100020 - English Department

Pay Band: N/A

Pay Rate: Commensurate with Experience

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Is this a JMU only position? No

Is this a grant-funded position? No

Is this a Conflict of Interest designated position? No

Beginning Review Date: 11/01/2026

Mission
We are a community committed to preparing students to be educated and enlightened citizens who lead productive and meaningful lives.
Vision
To be the national model for the engaged university: engaged with ideas and the world.
Who We Are
Situated in the heart of Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the city of Harrisonburg is a vibrant community with a population of approximately 52,000. Harrisonburg is conveniently located approximately 120 miles from Washington, D.C. and Richmond, VA.
JMU is a selective, public institution with a growing national reputation for offering experiences that lead to an outstanding education and supportive environment for students, faculty and staff. The student body includes approximately 21,000 undergraduate and 1,800 graduate students, with over 1,000 full-time instructional faculty.
JMU offers thriving programs in the liberal arts, science and technology, and professional disciplines at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels. JMU has achieved national recognition for the high quality of its academic programs, focus on maintaining strong student/faculty interaction, and innovative faculty research.

The Department of English at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Linguistics to begin August 2027.
The Department offers a B.A. and an M.A. English and serves students inthe university’s General Education program. It housesthe University’sthriving creative writing minor, and faculty teach across many interdisciplinary minors, including African, African American and Diaspora Studies;

American Studies;
Digital Studies;
Disability Studies;
Environmental Humanities;
Film Studies;
Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies;
Linguistics;
Medieval and Renaissance Studies;
Queer Studies;
Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and World Literature.
The College of Arts and Letters, in which the Department of English is located, enrolls over 3100 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. We embrace the teacher-scholar model, and encourage excellent applicants within our particular disciplines, as well as scholars and teachers eager to work across them.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory, advanced, and graduate (M.A.) courses in Linguistics to English majors and minors, Pre-Professional Secondary Education (SEED) majors and minors, Linguistics minors, and contribute to the university’s General Education Program. This hire will also contribute to the English curriculum by offering literature courses for majors and minors and in the General Education program.

Required:

• PhD in Linguistics or a related field by August 31, 2027
• Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in teaching in Linguistics and Literature
• Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in publishing in an area of Linguistics
• Evidence of excellence or potential for excellence in departmental, university, or professional…