Summary
Job ad for asst professor early modernist who uses tech – California campus, San Jose State University.
San Jose State University, English Dept is searching for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern studies with a focus on emergent technologies.
Due date: the job ad says “open until filled” but the committee will begin meeting in November. Get those docs in ASAP.
(I will update if I hear about a “suggested due date” from the committee chair.)
SJSU is part of the 23-campus California State University system.
The ad signals expertise in “emergent technologies” as a way to offer wide latitude to the person who is hired. This person can be within the Digital Humanities community or in some way affiliated and working through technologies in their pedagogy or research. I’m on the search committee (as the resident Digital Humanist) as a guide for other committee members in terms of the use of tech by each applicant. I’m looking forward to seeing the incredible work of many Digital Humanists surfaced during this process!
There are lots of good things about SJSU beyond what’s in the job ad. As someone who has spent almost 20 years here, I’ve found my niche both on campus and through my larger DH community. The person hired will have:
- a Dean who is incredibly supportive of innovative projects
- a 2/3 or 3/3 teaching load per semester thanks to the start up package for this position
- lots of internal grant opportunities for professional development funds or course release/assigned time
- lots of public programming to produce and/or offer to your students (H&A in Action)
- an internal grant in the College to support public humanities & arts public programming (lead by me!)
- a generous RTP policy (S15-8) (authored by the Academic Senate + a department RTP policy that offers options for research publication modality)
- a new-ish president who is keen to make sure SJSU is known in all ways
- an HSI and AANAPISI designation and working to implement those designations – Somos Framework
- a strong Academic Senate
- a DH@CSU Consortium with contact to 18/23 other CSU campuses/faculty/staff/librarians
- a strong union that negotiates annual raises
- other Digital Humanists on campus + real physical space in the DH Center in King Library (as we finish up year 4 of a 5-year NEH Infrastructure Grant award)
- an incredible public/university library collaboration with library faculty who are experts at creating community engagement
- help with crafting external grant proposals from the Associate Dean, Office of Research, and pre/post award staff. (Lots and lots of help running grants here.)
I’m happy to answer questions as a member of the search committee before we begin to review applications in November. (If you have questions about the progress of your application, please use the email in the job ad.)