Rise of the Absurdly Demanding Job Ad: Enough with peculiar obscurantism and unreasonable expectations.

ROMANTICISM; POSTMODERNISM (Literature); POSTCOLONIALISM; CRITICAL theory; CULTURAL studies

The article discusses that English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism. It mentions the English departments continue to downsize and outsource, hiring committees are looking for candidates who can cover as much material as possible. It also mentions that subspecialization in Victorian literature may have been like critical theory or cultural studies.