Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Digital Visual Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Core
Research and teach digital visual cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on cinema, digital arts, curatorial practices, and image circulation.
Role type
Tenure-track Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track)
Builds
General Education and specialized courses on Digital Visual Cultures of the MENA region; interdisciplinary programming for global fluency.
Domain
Humanities, Media Studies, Near Eastern Studies
Required skills
PhD in Film/Media/Art History/Comparative Literature/Anthropology/Near Eastern Studies; native or near-native fluency in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish; scholarly publication record
Preferred skills
Public-facing or community-engaged scholarship; experience with interdisciplinary experiential learning; K-12 partnerships; film festival curation
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Maintain active research agenda on digital visual cultures of MENA; develop and teach General Education and specialized courses; advance Mellon-funded Transforming World Languages initiative; cultivate interdisciplinary initiatives; develop public-facing and community-engaged teaching/outreach programs
Seniority
Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track)