Forwarding this announcement ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: *Elizabeth Adan* <eadan@calpoly.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 2:41 PM Subject: TT hire in Feminist/Queer/Trans* Dis/Ability Studies Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that the Women's, Gender & Queer Studies (WGQS) Department in the College of Liberal Arts at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Feminist/Queer/Trans* Dis/Ability Studies. Some additional details are as follows: The WGQS Department at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA seeks applications for a full-time (academic year), tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in feminist, queer, and/or trans* dis/ability studies, with a particular focus on critical approaches that emphasize dis/ability as a social situation and a political process; consider dis/ability in the context of settler colonialism, cisheteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism; and center the knowledges and experiences of people with dis/abilities, studying cultural and artistic productions, social, cultural, and/or political theories, public laws and policies, professional practices, and/or everyday life. Applicants must have graduate training in Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies and/or Dis/Ability Studies, which can come from a range of disciplinary homes, and should approach scholarship and teaching from interdisciplinary perspectives. Candidates must demonstrate: 1) an ongoing commitment to scholarly inquiry, education, and activism in critical feminist, queer, and/or trans* studies that utilizes an integrative approach, exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, dis/abilities, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, religion, citizenship status, and other social categories within local, regional, national, and transnational networks and contexts; 2) the ability to collaborate with students/faculty/staff both from within the College of Liberal Arts and across the university; and 3) a record of and commitment to working to ensure an equitable and inclusive campus for all. The successful candidate must also have the ability to work effectively with students, staff, and faculty from a diversity of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and other cultural backgrounds. A Ph.D. from an accredited institution in Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies, Dis/Ability Studies, or a closely related field with graduate training in WGQS and Dis/Ability Studies, and with an area of specialization in feminist, queer, and/or trans* dis/ability studies, is required and must be conferred by the time of appointment. For more information and the full position listing, including details on how to apply, please go to Cal Poly Jobs< https://jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/listing/> and review the listing for job number 503261< https://jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/job/503261/assistant-professor-in-feministqueertrans-disability-studies >.<https://jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/listing/>< https://jobs.calpoly.edu/sl/en-us/job/503261/assistant-professor-in-feministqueertrans-disability-studies > If anyone has any questions or any problems locating the position listing, please do not hesitate to contact me off-list. Best, Elizabeth Adan ============================================ Elizabeth Adan, Ph.D. (she, her, hers) Chair, Women's, Gender & Queer Studies Department Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies in Liberal Arts Department California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 (805) 756-1564 eadan@calpoly.edu -- Dr. Jane L. Lehr California Polytechnic State University Email: jlehr@calpoly.edu / Gmail: jlehrcalpoly --