==Apologies for cross posting==
A second call for the Tenure Track job in English at the University of
Lethbridge .
*Specialisation: *20th Century, particularly Postcolonial or Modernism
(we need people in both areas; this is the first of what we hope will be
a series of ads)
*Sub-specialisation: *Open (Digital Humanities is certainly welcome and
is a strategic priority of both the Faculty of Arts and Science and the
University more generally)
*Starting-Salary:* In the last 2 years, starting salaries at the U of L
have ranged from $63k to $92k with an average of $75k (in other words,
enough to make you too expensive for Nazareth College:
http://cedarsdigest.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/on-treating-the-unprepared-as-…)
*Deadline: *April 15, 2014 (we intend to review applications almost
immediately after the deadline, so please emphasise this with your
referees).
*Further details: *http://www.uleth.ca/hr/jobs/english
Our vacancy is for a tenure track position in 20th Century literature in
English. We are looking particularly for either Post Colonial or
Modernism (areas in which we have had recent retirements or
resignations). Although Digital Humanities is not a prerequisite for the
position, it is welcome: DH is a strategic priority in the Faculty and
the University and is a key component in a recent central administration
application for $4.1 million to fund a new complex of specialised
laboratories. Globalisation is also a strategic priority of the University.
The University of Lethbridge was Canada's top undergraduate research
university in 2012 and remains in the top three. We are also putting
significant resources into the development of our (relatively new)
graduate school. The Department of English is a relatively small unit
(currently 9 full time faculty members) with a strong research and
teaching profile. Individual members of the department have great
freedom to shape their research and teaching responsibilities. In most
cases, faculty members are primarily responsible for developing the
teaching programme in their area of research specialisation.
The University of Lethbridge is located in Southern Alberta, Canada.
Lethbridge has a population of about 80,000 people. It is close (about
180km) to the Rocky Mountains and Calgary (225km). The University has
about 8,000 students, of which about 300 are English majors.
Faculty in the Department have strong connections to researchers in
neighbouring institutions (University of Calgary, University of Alberta,
University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Victoria) as well as
internationally: the Department is the home of DigitalMedievalist.org,
globaloutlookdh.org, /Digital Studies/Le champ numérique/, and the
Lethbridge Journal Incubator. It is a former host of the Text Encoding
Initiative.
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
[apologies for the cross-posting]
An event that may be of interest to those working on Caribbean studies or
Caribbean related matters.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kaiama L. Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Call for Papers/Projects - The Caribbean Digital
To: Kaiama Glover <kglover(a)barnard.edu>
Call for Papers/Projects
*The Caribbean Digital*
a s*mall axe* event
5 December 2014
Barnard College / Columbia University
New York, NY
Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2014
The transformation of the academy by the digital revolution presents
challenges to customary ways of learning, teaching, conducting research,
and presenting findings. It also offers great opportunities in each of
these areas. New media enable oration, graphics, objects, and even embodied
performance to supplement existing forms of scholarly production as well as
to constitute entirely original platforms. Textual artifacts have been
rendered literally and figuratively three-dimensional; opportunities for
interdisciplinary collaboration have expanded exponentially; information
has been made more accessible and research made more efficient on multiple
levels. Scholars are called upon, with some urgency, to adapt their
research and pedagogical methods to an academic climate deluged by a
superabundance of information and analysis. This has created opportunities
for open-ended and multiform engagements, interactive and continually
updating archives and other databases, cartographic applications that
enrich places with historical information, and online dialogues with peers
and the public.
The need for such engagements is especially immediate among the people of
the Caribbean and its diasporas. Information technology has become an
increasingly significant part of the way that people frame pressing social
problems and political aspirations. Aesthetic media like photography and
painting--because they are relatively inexpensive and do not rely on
literacy or formal training--have become popular among economically
dispossessed and politically marginalized constituencies. Moreover, the
Internet is analogous in important ways to the Caribbean itself as dynamic
and fluid cultural space: it is generated from disparate places and by
disparate peoples; it challenges fundamentally the geographical and
physical barriers that disrupt or disallow connection; and it places others
and elsewheres in relentless relation. Yet while we celebrate these
opportunities for connectedness, we also must make certain that the digital
realm undermine and confront rather than re-inscribe forms of silencing and
exclusion in the Caribbean.
In this unique one-day public forum we intend to engage critically with the
digital as practice and as historicized societal phenomenon, reflecting on
the challenges and opportunities presented by the media technologies that
evermore intensely reconfigure the social and geographic contours of the
Caribbean. We invite presentations that explicitly evoke:
- the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary
possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean
- metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean
philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic concepts as "submarine unity," the
rhizome, Relation, the spiral, repeating islands, creolization, etc.
- gendered dimensions of the digital in the Caribbean
- the connection between digital technologies and practices of the
so-called Caribbean folk
- specific engagements with digital spaces and/or theories by individual
Caribbean artists and intellectuals
- the ways in which digital technologies have impacted or shaped
understandings of specific Caribbean political phenomena (e.g. sovereignty,
reparations, transnationalism, migration, etc.)
- structural means of facilitating broad engagement, communication, and
accessibility in the Caribbean digital context (cultivation of multilingual
spaces, attentiveness to the material/hardware limitations of various
populations)
Both traditional papers and integrally multimedia papers/presentations are
welcome. We also welcome virtual synchronous presentations by invited
participants who cannot travel to New York City to attend the event.
Selected proceedings from this forum will be published in the inaugural
issue (September 2015) of *sx:archipelagos *- an interactive, born-digital,
print-possible, peer-reviewed Small Axe Project publication.
Abstracts of 300 words and a short bio should be sent to Kaiama L. Glover
and Kelly Baker Josephs (archipelagos(a)smallaxe.net) by *1 June 2014*.
Successful applicants will be notified by 1 August 2014.
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Kaiama L. Glover
Associate Professor of French and Africana Studies
Barnard College, Columbia University
*Haiti Unbound
<http://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view…>*
available from Liverpool UP