California State University, Long Beach is looking to hire an assistant professor well-versed in trans studies.
According to an online job posting, the opening in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is for someone “with an expertise in the fluid and contingent nature of gender and sexuality.” One qualification for the job is “an interest in innovative directions and scholarship in Trans Studies.”
Candidates for this assistant professorship position should be proficient “in trans studies including but not limited to trans/transgender studies, feminist transnationalism, trans feminism, gender variant theories, and transmigration.”
Furthermore, some of the duties of the assistant professor position in the WGSS teaching a wide array of interdisciplinary courses focusing on feminist and gender studies. They include: Feminism and Globalization; Feminist and Queer Arts and Cultures; Feminist Methods; Feminist Theory; Gender, Race, Sex and the Body; Gender, Race, Sex and Societies; Introduction to Queer Studies; and Queering Gender.
An ideal job candidate would, presumably, carry an ideological opposition to President Trump. As the department professes on their website:
“As feminist scholars, we understand many of the Trump Administration Executive Orders to be an assault on American values. Efforts to ban travel, deny scientific fact, to remove legal protections, eradicate funding, and attack the First Amendment erode our civil rights in unacceptable ways. We stand with the resistance movements, and are committed to do all that we can to create a more just society for ALL.”
According to the department’s mission statement, WGSS invites “provocative questions about gender and sexuality.” They also aim to promote “an interrogation of systems of power and contradictory social realities by analyzing historical, systemic, and institutionalized patterns of injustice.”
The position would start in the fall of 2018. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in humanities or social sciences.
Isaiah Denby is a college freshman from Tampa Bay, Fla. studying economics and political science.
