01 — Adjunct

Your career,
without apology.

Adjunct reshapes the scattered academic lives of part-time faculty — the half-dozen syllabi, the visiting appointments, the Fulbright buried under "Other Experience" — into a single commanding document that reads like tenure.

Before
After
DR. MARGUERITE OSEI-BONSU
marguerite.oseibonsu@gmail.com | (312) 555-0174
Chicago, IL 60614
EDUCATION
PhD, Comparative Literature
University of Illinois at Chicago (2018)
Dissertation: "Postcolonial Temporalities in Francophone African Fiction, 1960–2010"
M.A. – Comparative Lit
UIC, 2013. B.A. Northwestern, 2011 (French & English)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Adjunct Lecturer, City Colleges of Chicago
Fall 2021 – present (3 sections/semester)
• ENGL 101, ENGL 201, LITR 210
• Graded papers
Part-time Instructor, DePaul University
Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022
• Taught some writing courses
Visiting Asst. Professor, Roosevelt University
2019–2020
Other Experience / Misc.
• Fulbright Scholar Award, Senegal (2016–17) — researched postcolonial archives
• Peer reviewer for various journals
• Conference presenter (multiple)
• Some publications in progress
PUBLICATIONS
- Osei-Bonsu, M. (2021). "Temporal Rupture in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala." Research in African Literatures 52(3).
- Another article (forthcoming)
- Book chapter – edited volume
skills & other
Microsoft Word, French (fluent), some Spanish, email, good at teaching
Marguerite Osei-Bonsu, Ph.D.
Comparative Literature · Postcolonial Studies · Francophone Africa
m.osei-bonsu@academic.edu · (312) 555-0174 · ORCID: 0000-0002-7741-3382
Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature2018
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Postcolonial Temporalities in Francophone African Fiction, 1960–2010"
Committee: Prof. A. Diagne (chair), Prof. R. Mbembe, Prof. S. Hartman
M.A., Comparative Literature2013
University of Illinois at Chicago
Fellowships & Awards
Fulbright Scholar Award — Senegal2016–2017
Postcolonial archive research, Bibliothèque nationale du Sénégal, Dakar
ACLA Dissertation Prize, Honorable Mention2019
Academic Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature2019–2020
Roosevelt University
Full course load; 4 sections per semester
Lecturer, Writing & Rhetoric2020–2022
DePaul University
WRIT 105, 210 (avg. 4.7/5.0 evaluation)
Adjunct Lecturer, English & World Literature2021–present
City Colleges of Chicago
ENGL 101, 201; LITR 210 — 3 sections/semester
Publications
Osei-Bonsu, M. (2021). Temporal rupture in Mongo Beti's Mission to Kala. Research in African Literatures, 52(3), 88–107. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.52.3.05
Osei-Bonsu, M. (forthcoming 2026). "Archive fever in the Sahel: Sembène's unwritten histories." In D. Quayson (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of African Literary Theory. Oxford UP.
Languages
English (native) · French (professional fluency, DALF C2) · Twi (heritage) · Spanish (reading)
Fulbright elevated to Awards
DOI links added
Evaluation scores surfaced
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Drag to compare — actual text, not mockup
Dr. Marguerite Osei-Bonsu, Comparative Literature · Anonymized with permission
03 — Evidence

Faculty development
metrics from the field.

Pilot data from community colleges and R1 universities. All outcomes anonymized per institutional partnership agreements.

3.2×
Interview Callbacks
Adjunct faculty averaged 3.2× more interview callbacks per application cycle after CV restructuring.
Community College of Philadelphia · 2024 cohort (n=62)
−47%
Time-to-Hire
Average application-to-offer timeline reduced from 11.4 months to 6.1 months across R1 university pilot.
Midwest R1 University (anonymized) · 2023–24 (n=38)
89%
Narrative Clarity
Faculty reported "significant" or "transformative" improvement in how their professional story reads.
Post-service survey across three pilot institutions (n=140)
12 wks
Avg. Turnaround
From intake to completed CV package: research statement, cover letter template, and publications list.
Internal service data · January 2025–present
Pilot institutions
City Colleges of Chicago◆
DePaul University◆
University of Illinois System◆
Community College of Philadelphia◆
Portland Community College◆
Rutgers–Newark◆
CUNY Graduate Center◆
San José State University◆
City Colleges of Chicago◆
DePaul University◆
University of Illinois System◆
Community College of Philadelphia◆
Portland Community College◆
Rutgers–Newark◆
CUNY Graduate Center◆
San José State University◆
"We'd tried résumé workshops. What Adjunct does is different — it treats the CV as an argument, not a list. Our faculty started winning searches they'd been losing for years."
Director of Faculty Development
Urban Community College System · Anonymized · 2024
"I had a Fulbright buried in a miscellaneous section. After Adjunct, I had a fellowship headline, a publications list with DOIs, and a teaching statement that actually sounded like me. First tenure-track offer came four months later."
Assistant Professor (formerly adjunct)
Liberal arts college, Pacific Northwest · Anonymized · 2025
04 — Partnership

Bring Adjunct
to your faculty.

Adjunct is a faculty development investment, not a personal expense. We work with institutions to deploy CV services across part-time faculty pools — community colleges, R1 systems, and independent liberal arts colleges.

Institutional package includes
Full CV restructuring per faculty member
Research statement & teaching philosophy drafting
Cover letter templates for up to 5 target positions
Publications list with DOI verification
Cohort intake sessions (virtual or on-campus)
Anonymized outcome tracking for your IRB or assessment reports
Tiered institutional pricing
Scales from 10-person pilots to system-wide deployments.
See Pricing PDF
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