The Washington and Lee University (W&L) Africana Studies Program welcomes applications for a visiting assistant professorship in Africana Studies that will begin July 1, 2024. For this position, we seek an individual with interdisciplinary training whose teaching and research engage with Africana Studies. Applicants should be prepared to teach Introduction to Africana Studies, a first-year writing seminar on a topic of their choosing, and upper-level courses in their area of specialization. Candidates whose teaching and research engage religion, health, food studies, contemporary music, or ..read more

Description The Department of African Literature seeks to make an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor. The department offers an undergraduate major in the literatures of Africa and the Black diaspora, as well as Honours, MA and PhD degrees. Read More ... The post Associate Professor ⎻ University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg first appeared on ..read more

3-day live symposium and festival at Goldsmiths University London from 2-4 Feb 2024. Sessions include discussions, workshops, readings, storytelling, networking, and an intro to reading ‘spec. fic.’ The post 1st International Black Speculative Writers Symposium & Festival first appeared on ..read more

Grinnell College and Summit Search Solutions are partnering to conduct a national search for the Inaugural Endowed Chair of African Diaspora Studies. Recently approved by the Board of Trustees, with strong support from students and faculty, the African Diaspora Studies Read More ... The post Endowed Chair, African Diaspora Studies ⎻ Grinnell College first appeared on ..read more

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) seeks applications for Postdoctoral Research Associates. We invite applications from scholars whose research focuses broadly on Africa and the African Diaspora. This is Read More ..read more

The Carter G. Woodson Institute's distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students whose work focuses on Africa and/or the African Diaspora. Scholars selected for the fellowship will relocate to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia to join a cohort of Read More ..read more

In their introduction to the special edition of African Literature Today captioned “Environmental Transformations,” Cajetan Iheka and Stephanie Newell assert that “The geography of African ecocriticism has shifted considerably,” affirming the expanding scope of ecocriticism in Africa. From the foundational work of pioneer scholars Read More ..read more

  Click here to apply   JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS: The Department of French and Francophone Studies and the African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, invites applications for an Assistant Professor or Associate Read More ..read more

This conference, in honor of Ambroise Kom, is an invitation to reflect on the decolonization of methodological approaches, a sine qua non for restoring the dignity of African peoples and a prerequisite for the emergence of a new humanism in Africa. We propose engaging in a reflection inspired by his work, through a focus on what might be called a form of inopportune thought, which intersects with the reverberations of a reflection that, praising dissidence, calls for the duty of indignation ..read more

Politics of Criticism, Criticism of PoliticsOn Being an Academic and an Intellectual in the Postcolony International conference in honor of Professor Ambroise Kom Yaoundé, June 11-13, 2024  “Should we remain silent, at the risk of self-censoring marginal speech? Or, on Read More ..read more