Assistant Professor
Core
Tenure-track faculty role focusing on interdisciplinary research and teaching in Arab Studies, including Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) pedagogy, at a major bilingual university.
Role type
Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure-Track)
Builds
Research initiatives on contemporary cultural questions and social issues in the Arabic-speaking world; undergraduate and graduate courses in Arab Studies.
Domain
Higher Education / Middle East Studies / Arab Studies / Linguistics
Required skills
Research excellence in Arab Studies, AFL pedagogy, teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, graduate student supervision, peer-reviewed publication record, fluency in Modern Standard Arabic, fluency in English and/or French
Preferred skills
Experience in Arts/Media/Digital Cultures, Migration/Diaspora studies, Middle East geopolitics, Comparative Studies, Colonialism/Development frameworks
Technologies
Computational methods for language and text analysis
Responsibilities
Develop research projects in Arab Studies; Lead transdisciplinary Arab Studies research initiatives; Coordinate the Arabic Language and Culture section; Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in both French and English; Recruit and train graduate students
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC (Tenure-Track)