Job Details
The Department of English at Coastal Carolina University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of English specializing in World Literature and/or Comparative Literature and Media teaching a 3/3 load to begin August 2026. Candidates must hold a PhD in English, World Literature, or Comparative Literature and/or Cultural Studies by August 2026 and have college-level teaching experience. We are particularly interested in scholars who can provide evidence of successful teaching experience with focus on one or more of the following: Digital Humanities; Human-centered storytelling in an age of AI; early literature (particularly world mythologies); folklore and place-based storytelling; medical humanities and narratives.

We seek candidates who show demonstrated potential as a teacher-scholar whose research and teaching engage world literary and cultural studies in diverse historical, cultural, and/or digital, filmic, and media contexts. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate literature courses, introductory literature and composition courses. We welcome candidates able to contribute related programs and minors in Digital Culture and Design, English Secondary Education, Film and New Media, the Joyner Institute for Gullah and African Diaspora Studies, and The Athenaeum Press.

The department offers three majors: BA in English, BA in Digital Culture and Design, and the newly added BA in English Education. We also offer five minors and house the MA in Writing program, which prepares students for careers in writing, editing, and publishing or for further graduate study in MFA or PhD programs.

Coastal Carolina University is a public comprehensive liberal arts institution located in Conway, South Carolina, just nine miles from the Atlantic coastal resort city of Myrtle Beach. Coastal Carolina University enrolls over 12,000 students from 48 states and 53 nations. The University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award the baccalaureate and master’s degrees of national and/or regional significance in the arts and sciences, business, humanities, education, and health and human services, a specialist degree in instructional technology, and PhD degrees in marine science: coastal and marine systems science and education sciences.

The University provides equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, national origin, or because an employee or applicant for employment is an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, an Armed Forces service medal veteran, a recently separated veteran, or an active-duty wartime or campaign badge veteran, or other “protected veteran,” as defined by law.

Interested candidates should submit electronically to: https://jobs.coastal.edu/postings/122218 (1) a letter of application that addresses the qualifications specified in this advertisement, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) the names and contact information for three professional references. Acceptance of application materials will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Coastal Carolina University is an EO/AA employer.
Required Qualifications
Must hold the appropriate terminal degree or meet the established alternative qualifications, and exhibit strong potential for excellence in teaching.