University of Maryland Digital Humanities and African American Hisotry and Culture Postdocs

THE UNIVERSITY of MARYLAND is pleased to announce applications are open for postdoctoral positions in Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture. The two positions are two year appointments with the Mellon-funded initiative “Synergies among Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture” (AADHum). Click here for more information and to apply.

College of William and Mary Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies

THE COLLEGE of WILLIAM and MARY is pleased to announce applications are open for a Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies. The position is one year with the possibility of renewal. They are seeking an applicant with expertise in Africana Studies and African American Literature, with a preferable ability to teach courses on Anglophone African Literature. Click here for more information and to apply.

Princeton Society of Fellows Postdocs

PRINCETON is pleased to announce applications are open for their Princeton Society of Fellows 2017-2020. There are four postdoctoral fellowships available in the fields of Humanistic Studies, LGBT Studies, Race and/or Ethnicity Studies, and the fourth one is open. The positions are open to those currently finishing their PhDs and those who received their degree after January 1, 2015. Click here for more information and to apply.

AMST 8920 sec002 "Queering Economies" with Prof. Lorena Muñoz

AMST 8920 sec 002
Wednesday 3:35-5:00 p.m.
Instructor: Prof. Lorena Muñoz
Title: "Queering Economies"

Description:
This course will primarily explore how economic practices rendered as informal around the globe dialectically shape the material and embodied spaces of everyday life of informal workers across spaces and places. In order to theoretically understand how these spaces and places are produced, we will look towards Queering economies—That is rethinking the (in)formal economy by understanding heterogeneous economic processes as queer, entangled and relational. We will explore how recent work moves away from dualist frameworks of informal/formal economy, that reify capitalisms as a totalizing organizing frame that we theorize from against and within. What Gibson Graham calls Capitalcentrism- as the positioning of all economic references to capitalism. Instead we will engage with work that theorizes economies as diverse, heterogeneous processes as entanglements, rather than categories that exclude, include and define binary systems.

American Studies Fulbright Award Applications Open

THE CORE FULBRIGHT U.S. SCHOLAR PROGRAM is pleased to announce they are accepting applications for the 2017-2018 awards in American Studies. These awards are across Europe including Bulgaria, Romania, Netherlands, and France. Click here for more information about the various programs and to apply.

Mahdi (PhD '15) Accepts Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Position at University of Oklahoma

WALEED F. MAHDI (PhD ’15) is joining the University of Oklahoma for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the Department of International and Area Studies and the Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics. There he will continue working on his current book project on the visual representation of Arab Americans in Hollywood and Arab filmmaking and contributing to a multi-institutional collaboration that examines Arab contemporary public spheres.

CFP - American Quarterly Special Issue "The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies

AMERICAN QUATERLY is pleased to announce a call for papers for their 2017 special issue, “The Chinese Factor: Reorienting Global Imaginaries in American Studies.” The guest editors will be Chih-ming Wang, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan and Yu-Fang Cho, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Submissions are due August 1, 2016. Click here to learn more about the issue, submissions guidelines, and to submit papers.