[Isabel Jaén-Portillo]

Dear colleagues, Please distribute the following job posting. Thanks!

The Department of English at the University of California Santa Barbara
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in
Literature and Mind studies. We welcome applications from scholars of
literatures in English working in Cognitive Humanities and/or Health
Humanities, broadly conceived, with expertise in any literary-historical
period. Applications from scholars who pursue embodied cognition, race and
mind, and/or animal minds are especially welcome. The successful candidate
will be able to teach courses in Literature and Mind and contribute
productively to our department’s distinctive research and teaching centers.
For further information, please visit our website at

Research

The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to
the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research,
teaching, and service as appropriate to the position. A reasonable estimate
for this position at 100% appointment is $82,200-111,800 annually. The
University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected
veteran status. Primary consideration given to complete applications
received by November 25, 2024.

Please give this job posting wide distribution.

We look forward to reviewing your application,
UCSB English Department Literature & Mind Search Committee

Dr. Isabel Jaén Portillo
<https://www.pdx.edu/world-languages/profile/isabel-jaen-portillo&gt;
Professor of Spanish: literature, film, culture, cognitive studies
World Languages and Literatures
Affiliated Faculty, Chicano Latino Studies

Faculty Senator (2021-24)
Advisory Council (2021-23)
Former Senate Presiding Officer (2019-20)

Pronouns: ella, she, her, hers

PDXScholar <https://works.bepress.com/isabel-janportillo/&gt; (Bio and
Selected Works)

ACADEMIA <http://pdx.academia.edu/IsabelJa%C3%A9nPortillo&gt;

ResearchGate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabel-Jaen-Portillo&gt;

The Authors Guild <https://go.authorsguild.org/members/7216&gt;

*BOOKS*

Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind (Routledge, 2022)
<https://www.routledge.com/Cervantes-and-the-Early-Modern-Mind/Jaen-Simon/p/book/9780415785471&gt;

Self, Other, and Context in Early Modern Spain (Juan de la Cuesta, 2017)
<https://linguatextbooks.com/products/self-other-and-context-in-early-modern-spain-edited-by-isabel-jaen-carolyn-a-nadeau-and-julien-jacques-simon?_pos=2&_sid=297995d1a&_ss=r&gt;

Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature (Oxford UP, 2016)
<https://goo.gl/qGpTt7&gt;

Cognitive Literary Studies (U of Texas P, 2012)
<https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292754423/cognitive-literary-studies/&gt;

Épocas y avances (Yale UP, 2007)
<https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300217957/epocas-y-avances-student-text/&gt;

Most recent publication (March 2024, *Frontiers in Human Neuroscience*)
<https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1363720/full&gt;

Most recent plenary session (April 2024, International Conference of Three
Societies on Literature and Science)
<https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/english/events/2024/international-conference-of-three-societies-on-literature-and-science&gt;

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