AAS Career Opportunity @ Wellesley

The American Studies Program at Wellesley College invites applications for a one-time appointment as a lecturer for the following course in Asian American Studies for the spring semester 2009.

Course: “Identity & Community Formation: Asian American Perspectives”

This course offers a set of analytic tools for grappling with the historical and contemporary complexities of Asian American identification and community formation. The course introduces students to different theoretical frames for exploring and interrogating the meaningful contours of the terms “Asian American” in relation to other racialized and ethnic groups in the U.S. By taking an interdisciplinary and comparative cultural studies approach, we will pay particular attention to the historical conditions and ongoing processes for the social formation of persons and collectivities under the rubric “Asian American” and its variants (e.g., Asian-American, Asian-Pacific-American, etc.) as well as examine multiplicities, contradictions, and gaps of Asian American identifications and politics. The goal of this course is to provide students with useful theoretical tools for critically thinking about the ever-shifting terrain of Asian American identification in the wider contexts of Orientalism, U.S. imperialism and nationalism, racialization and racism, economic restructuring, transnationalism and other social processes and transformations.

Applicants should have PhD in hand or be ABD with teaching experience and/or research background in Asian American Studies. Submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, names/e-mail address of two references electronically through our online application system at: https://career.wellesley.edu/. If circumstances make it impossible to submit any materials through our application site, you may send them to: Elena Tajima Creef, Women’s Studies Department, Wellesley College at the following e-mail address: ecreef@wellesley.edu.

Applications received by November 15 will be given full consideration.

Wellesley College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. For more information about being a faculty member at Wellesley College, please see
http://www.wellesley.edu/DeanCollege/Diversity/Open_pos/prospectfac.pdf.