Contract Instructor Opportunities
Summer 2024
Pursuant to Article 16 of the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applications are invited from members of the CUPE 4600-2 bargaining unit and other interested persons to teach the following Department of English Language & Literature courses during the 2024 Summer Term:
- ENGL 1300 (0.5 credit): Literature, Psychology, and the Mind (May-June)
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An introductory course whose readings focus on the intersections between literature, psychology, and the mind.
Topic will vary.
Lectures three hours a week.
Required Academic Qualifications and Skills: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in the appropriate discipline.
Teaching Competence: Candidates must demonstrate previous teaching experience in the subject area of introductory English literary studies and composition studies.
Other Relevant Experience: Candidates should demonstrate relevant scholarly activity in English literary studies.
Designated Modality: Online
Anticipated TA Support: No
Anticipated Enrolment: 40
- ENGL 2302 (0.5 credit): Literatures and Cultures 1500-1700 (May – June Session)
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A study of the period between 1500 and 1700, with attention to cultural, historical, geographical, and literary contexts.
Lectures three hours a week.
Required Academic Qualifications and Skills: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in the appropriate discipline.
Teaching Competence: Candidates must demonstrate previous teaching experience in the subject area of introductory English literary studies and composition studies.
Other Relevant Experience: Candidates should demonstrate relevant scholarly activity in English literary studies.
Designated Modality: Online
Anticipated TA Support: No
Anticipated Enrolment: 40
- ENGL 2915 (0.5 credit): Writing Creative Nonfiction (May – August Session)
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A workshop involving regular assignments in reading and writing creative non-fiction and practical criticism based on this work. Permission to register in this course requires the student to submit a portfolio. Instructions can be found at carleton.ca/english.
Includes: Experiential Learning Activity
Workshop three hours a week.
Required Academic Qualifications and Skills: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in the appropriate discipline.
Teaching Competence: Candidates must demonstrate teaching experience in the subject area of creative fiction.
Other Relevant Experience: Candidates should have publications in nationally prominent journals and presses.
Designated Modality: On campus
Anticipated TA Support: No
Anticipated Enrolment: 20
- ENGL 3501 (0.5 credit): Literatures and Cultures 1900-Now (July – August Session)
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A study of the period between 1900 and the present, with attention to cultural, historical, geographical, and literary contexts.
Lectures three hours a week.
Required Academic Qualifications and Skills: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in the appropriate discipline.
Teaching Competence: Candidates must demonstrate previous teaching experience in the subject area of literatures and cultures that emerged from any geographical region between 1700 and 1900.
Other Relevant Experience: Candidates should have recent scholarly publications in English literary studies.
Designated Modality: Online
Anticipated TA Support: No
Anticipated Enrolment: 40
- ENGL 3605 (0.5 credit): Modern and Contemporary Literary Theory (May – June Session)
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Introduction to contemporary approaches to literary texts, such as formalist, structuralist, deconstructive, psychoanalytic, Marxist, historicist, and feminist. Topics may include: the nature and role of literature, of author and reader, of canons, ideology, gender, sexuality, and race.
Lectures three hours a week.
Required Academic Qualifications and Skills: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in the appropriate discipline.
Teaching Competence: Candidates must demonstrate previous teaching experience in the subject area of literary theory. This experience may include a literature or cultural studies course that has incorporated cultural/literary theory into its methodology.
Other Relevant Experience: Candidates should have recent scholarly publications in a specific theory are desirable.
Designated Modality: Online
Anticipated TA Support: No
Anticipated Enrolment: 40
Application Procedures and Deadline
All applicants must apply to the Department Head in writing and in relation to each course for which they wish to be considered:
Professor Grant Williams
Interim Chair, Department of English Language & Literature
Carleton University
1125 Colonel by Drive, 1812 Dunton Tower
Ottawa, ON. K1S 5B6
Send application directly to judy.katz@carleton.ca
The deadline for receipt of applications is December 5, 2023.
As per Article 15.3 of the current CUPE 4600 Unit 2 Collective Agreement, applicants are required to submit an up to date CV, including a complete listing of all courses taught within the CUPE 4600 Unit 2 bargaining unit at Carleton University. Candidates who have already contacted the department and submitted a CV recently need only indicate their interest in particular courses. NOTE that when applying to classes for which they have incumbency, applicants shall not be required to (re)submit documentation beyond their updated CV.
Disclaimer: All contract instructor positions are subject to budgetary approval. Advertisement is not a guarantee that a particular course will be offered.
A note to all applicants: As per Articles 16.3-16.4 in the CUPE 4600-2 Collective Agreement, the posted vacancies listed above are first offered to applicants meeting the incumbency criterion. A link to the current CUPE 4600-2 Collective Agreement can be found at the Employment Agreements webpage on the Carleton University Human Resources website and the CUPE 4600-2 website.