The Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor, expected start date August 1, 2025. We seek a scholar working on ethnicity, migration and critical race theory, with a demonstrated record of scholarship and teaching on Modern Europe in its dialogue with the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. The successful candidate’s research and teaching interests will focus on topics such as refugee studies, migration ecologies, climate or political displacement, public history and policies, European imperial history and settler states, and/or comparative race and ethnic studies within critical discourse studies, critical media studies, and/or literary and cultural studies.

Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in any area of the digital humanities, particularly in the use of computational methods, data visualization, and big data approaches in literary and cultural criticism. Also of interest are candidates with experience in translation practice and studies who may be able to contribute to our graduate program in Global Communication and Translation.

The candidate must be able to teach language courses, at all levels of instruction, as well as courses related to their research in both English and in one of the target languages appropriate to our French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Russian Studies majors and minors. Candidates who cannot provide evidence of experience in second language instruction in French, German, Russian, or Spanish will not be considered.

The successful candidate will join a team of engaged scholars with ambitious research agendas in the humanities working on issues of race, identity, and racism in US and global contexts and benefit from a strong and growing support of interdisciplinary humanities research and teaching at Carnegie Mellon, including such initiatives as the Center for the Arts inSociety, Humanities@CMU, the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic, and the Kenner Room for immersive technologies in language and culture research and teaching.

PhD required, ABD considered. Ability to teach French, German, Russian or Spanish as a second language. Significant evidence of a promising scholarly agenda and teaching excellence.

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by November 1, 2024. Applicants should submit 1) a current CV, 2) a letter outlining research interests, teaching philosophy and personal and professional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and 3) the names and contact information

for three professional references.

Please direct inquiries to chairs of the search committee: Dr. Mame-Fatou Niang mniang@andrew.cmu.edu and Dr. Tatyana Gershkovich tgershko@andrew.cmu.edu

This institution is using Interfolio's Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.

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