Recent New Faculty Search

Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House NYU

Applications were accepted for an appointment as Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Irish and Irish-American Studies Program in NYU's College of Arts and Sciences.

The Irish Studies Program is located within Glucksman Ireland House, NYU's Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies.

The appointment will begin, pending final budgetary and administrative approval, in September 2008.

This is a term appointment, renewable annually for up to three years.

The Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies should have received the Ph.D. not more than three years from the date of appointment (i.e., no earlier than May 1, 2005).  In no cases will an appointment be made to a candidate without the Ph.D. 

Teaching

The position of Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies is a new appointment; the Faculty fellow’s teaching contribution will support our undergraduate Minor in Irish Studies, though we hope that Fellows might also contribute to our new MA Program in Irish and Irish-American Studies.  Faculty Fellows teach three courses per year (2/1 or 1/2, on the semester calendar), but will also be eligible to teach in either of the six-week Summer Sessions in New York or on our Summer in Dublin Program on the campus of Trinity College, Dublin.

Field of Study

We welcome applications from qualified scholars in History and in Literature in the first instance, for the Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies will be expected to support our undergraduate curriculum in the Minor in Irish Studies.  (Many courses within that curriculum typically cross-list with NYU's History or English departments.)  We are open, however, to applications from scholars whose work is at the intersection of these and other fields, and who can demonstrate competence in areas of scholarship that will expand as well as support our pedagogy.  Applicants from fields outside of Literature or History (such as Anthropology, Politics, Cultural Studies, Sociology) should seek in their application to articulate how their contribution would advance an interdisciplinary Irish Studies program.

Our faculty share research interests in trans-Atlantic Irish Studies, especially the study of the culture and history of the Irish in America.  We also share a direct concern, historical and theoretical, with how the disciplines, broadly conceived, are configured or re-configured by our work in Irish Studies.  Perhaps most of all we share a keen investment in archives and records in our work; some of our most exciting scholarly achievements in recent years are housed in NYU's Archives of Irish America, the Glucksman Ireland House Oral History Project and the Mick Moloney Music and Popular Culture Collection, as well as the republication of lost texts of Irish History.

A mark of our collective scholarly experience, though, is that no orthodoxy governs the shape or trajectory of these concerns, and we hope to welcome a colleague who will broaden as deepen these, or others, in complement to our collective work.

Application Deadline

All application materials (an Application Letter, Curriculum Vitae, writing sample, and three Letters of Recommendation, or the names of three referees), should be received by us at the address below no later than March 24, 2008 to receive full consideration.  Candidates who do not submit letters of recommendation with their application should ensure that referees can supply a letter on short notice, as we expect to decide on finalists by April 14, 2008. 

Candidates will be notified of receipt of their application by e-mail.

Enquiries

We encourage applicants to explore our website.  Questions not satisfied by materials on-line can be directed to the Search Committee Chair, Professor John Waters.

Address

Glucksman Ireland House NYU
One Washington Mews
New York, NY  10003-6691