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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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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