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University of Miami, Michele Bowman Underwood Department of Modern Languages and Literatures is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor, beginning August 15, 2024. This Assistant Professor is expected to contribute to the department’s intellectual life by maintaining an active research and publication agenda focusing on French literature and/or language, teaching courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, directing dissertations, and serving on departmental, college, and/or university committees. We seek candidates whose teaching and research intersect with the work of other faculty in Modern Languages and Literatures and elsewhere in the College of Arts and Sciences. The teaching assignment is two courses per semester.

Minimum requirements include a Ph.D. in French or a closely related field.

Applications consisting of a curriculum vitae (CV), cover letter, and list of recommenders should be submitted through the UM website [see link below]. Review of applications will begin April 20 and will continue until the position is filled. Three letters of recommendation, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a writing sample will be required of all candidates chosen for remote interviews. 

Inquiries may be addressed to the Department Chair, Dr. Logan Connors,  logan.connors@miami.edu .

To apply, see the advertisement on Workday for the University of Miami:

https://umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFaculty/jobs/details/Assistant-Professor-of-French_R100075740-1?q=R100075740

 

The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a full-time University Assistant Professor in Early Modern French, from 1 October 2024 for a period of three years.

The Assistant Professor will contribute to the teaching and examining of 17th-Century French Literature, Thought and Culture, more broadly across early modern French Studies.

We invite applications from candidates with a record of, or clear potential for leading outstanding research in 17th-century French studies along with a broad-based expertise in early modern French. A particular interest in French Thought, while not obligatory, would be welcome.

It is also expected that the appointee will have the opportunity to participate in teaching and examining at postgraduate level in their field of expertise. The role includes an active contribution to the administration of the Faculty's activities. We welcome applicants with a record of excellence in research, commensurate with career stage, and a strong trajectory.

Candidates will have relevant teaching experience, have successfully completed a PhD in a relevant field by the start date for the post and be able to demonstrate active, collegial engagement in research, teaching and outreach in early modern French Studies. A native or near-native command of both French and English is essential.

For your application to be considered please ensure that you upload the following documents to your online application:

• A covering letter
• Your Curriculum Vitae, including a full list of publications
• An article-length example of your written work (max 8,000 words, e.g. a previous publication or thesis chapter)
• Three references are required, and applicants should ask their referees to send their reports to references@mmll.cam.ac.uk by the closing date

The closing date for applications is midnight (GMT) on Thursday 18 April 2024. We plan to hold interviews and selection activities in person during mid-May, subject to change.

Prospective candidates are welcome to seek more information beyond the Further Particulars by contacting Professor Nicholas Hammond at ngh20@cam.ac.uk. On questions of procedure, please contact the School HR team on MMLLPersonnel@admin.cam.ac.uk.

This post is fixed-term for 36 months or the return of the post holder, whichever is the earlier.

Please quote reference GP40804 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and we particularly welcome applications from candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background for this vacancy as they are currently underrepresented at this level in our Faculty. Details of some of the family-friendly policies operated by the University are at: https://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/pay-benefits/cambens-employee-benefits/family-friendly

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

 

To apply, and for further information, follow this link to the advertisement on the University of Cambridge website:

https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/45559/

 

Une équipe de recherche à Sorbonne Université propose le projet de thèse "COLPORTAL", jusqu'au 31 janvier 2024.

Il s'agit d'étudier des écrits de colportage urbains de la fin 16eme siècle à la fin du 17eme siècle, d'un point de vue linguistique et discursif. La langue qu'ils emploient a-t-elle des traits spécifiques ? Des caractéristiques d'une langue 'populaire'? Une langue écrite par des lettrés vers des moins lettrés pour connoter le "populaire? On voudrait interroger la formation des publics à partir des formes linguistiques de l'écrit. 

Le projet reposera sur un corpus numérisé qu'il s'agira de préparer, d'annoter, de fouiller. Des notions en humanités numériques et une appétence pour les méthodes du TAL (NLP) sont requises.

Le candidat ou la candidate doit avoir passé moins de 12 mois en France dans les 36 derniers mois. Une audition sera organisée. La date limite est le 31 janvier 2024. Les conditions complètes d'éligibilité sont ici : https://soundai.sorbonne-universite.fr/dl/for_students

 

Descriptif étendu

COLPORTAL - Detailed Doctoral Research Project 

SUMMARY

Chapbooks, broadcasted by peddlers, are known to have been the first means of disseminating books outside the elite, in both town and country, from the 16th century onwards. Its effect has been compared to that of the mass media (Botrel 1993). They have already addressed for the French area as way of circulation of norms and ideas, but not enough yet as a resource for linguistic knowledge. The aim of this thesis is to propose an automatic approach of these data, which, from a computer science point of view, questions the ability of systems to be effective on discursive forms that evolve diachronically.

TITLE

Distant reading of chapbooks: questioning the varieties of French in the 16th and 17th centuries

SUPERVISORS

Gaël Lejeune and Karine Abiven (Sorbonne University)

Eligibility criteria for the candidates

https://soundai.sorbonne-universite.fr/dl/for_students

Applications : until 31st of January.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT

    Chapbooks are known to have been the first way of disseminating books outside the elite, in towns from the 16th century onwards, and later in the countryside. Their effect has been compared to that of mass media (Botrel 1993). It is thus a source of "pop culture", a culture that can be said to be popular, in the sense that it has a wide social circulation (and not because it relates to "the people", an overly essentializing notion).

    Studies on the subject have so far focused on the uses of reading (Chartier), the history of the print (Chartier and Lüsebrink), the social history of the peddlers' guild (Fontaine 1993) or the mediation of literature by these writings (in particular tales, Andries and Bolleme). But no study to date has embraced the many genres present in these documents : news (“faits divers”), fun facts, songs, broadside ballads, almanacs, fictions. Indeed, it's difficult for the human eye to study such a wide range of textual genres together. If chapbooks have been taken so far as a source of knowledge on ancient societies, we'd like to make them contribute to the history of language.

    This is why the contribution of automatic analysis methods, Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision is necessary. First of all, we need to have a general view of this data, which is impossible for the human mind, but also to observe the internal dynamics of these sets of documents, particularly at the linguistic and discursive level. More concretely, the aim is to challenge one of the prejudices about chapbooks: their inertia (always the same tales, the same repeated almanacs ...). The texts are said to be reproduced more or less identically, an impression that lends credence to the thesis of the "conservative" mind of the "people" (Mandrou 1964 reed. 1981). In the case of songs, for example, Keilhauer (2000) has shown that the repertoire is much more mobile than previously thought. The same is true of news items ("canards"), which are certainly based on well-known themes, but also adapt to current events. What about the evolution of forms of discourse? Is street literature fundamentally conservative (as would be "mass literature" in the capitalist regime of the contemporary area: Dubois 1983: 131), or can we find formal, discursive and linguistic innovations?

    Wide diffusion writings are an exceptional source of linguistic variation : diatopic variation (regional languages or local variations of language) ; diastratic variation (i.e. according to the social situation of the speakers); diachronic variation (according to the evolution of discursive forms over time). Computational methods (in particular classical similarity calculations or the use of diachronic embeddings) will be able to reveal the modifications that affect writings as they are republished and as society evolves. This project will take a more textual approach than the usual treatments this corpus has undergone, in order to determine what the content of the writings themselves can tell us about the uses and appropriations of these widely circulated objects. 

    The variations exhibited by these documents raise the question, little addressed on the Natural Language Processing side, of the ability of language models (including LLMs, Large Language Models) to represent plural languages. What can an LLM trained on contemporary data reveal about 16th-century French, and about all the internal variations of this language ? If there is not one French but various forms of French, what kind of French do we model if we fine-tune an existing LLM to these data? Does a model of the French language at some point become a model of an unique French language, and thus a multilingual model? How much this can bias the representation of language variations ? This work would enrich our knowledge of the behavior of LLMs on varied and under-resourced language states (Dufter 2020, Imani Googhari 2023).

    Another interesting aspect of this corpus is the material form of the documents: formatting, visual structure of the leaflets, presence or absence of illustration (woodcuts in particular), typographical formatting (bold, italics). This materiality of the document can provide information on its cognitive apprehension: what sequence of text is highlighted (summaries of texts, slogan-type forms or elements of language)? How can we infer hypotheses from the interactions between text and image, particularly for strategies of dissemination and memorization? The visual structure of documents will be another angle of study. Indeed, the cross-fertilization between Computer Vision and NLP is seldom exploited in Digital Humanities. In particular it appears that the typo-dispositional considerations of corpora are relatively little studied in the field.

    This angle of study, which borrows the point of view of sciences of the text, requires working on precise and structured corpora. For the study to be feasible, the corpus needs to be narrowed down: we have chosen to do this by focusing on productions from the early days of the peddlers' guild in Europe (late 16th-late 17th century). On the one hand, this allows us to focus on the penetration of written culture in a largely non-reading population at that time (later periods are already better studied). On the other hand, it allows us to focus on an urban language (since at the time, peddling was more concentrated in towns and not yet widespread in the countryside). The other limitation concerns linguistic observables: we'll be focusing on fixed forms of the language (in particular proverbs) and markers of orality (apostrophe, stimulus connectors, etc.). In return for these limitations, the corpus will take into account the generic heterogeneity of the content (tales, but also songs, miscellaneous facts, almanacs).  In addition, and as far as possible according to the profile of the doctoral student, the study would be multilingual : English chapbooks, German Volkbuch, or Spanish papeles públicos and Portuguese litteratura de cordel. As research on peddling is more developed in these other linguistic fields, the resources would be more readily exploitable.

The aim is to work jointly on textual data and metadata (dates, language, text genre, format, presence or absence of illustrations). Many resources already exist, in several languages (see numerous digital libraries or other online databases infra : websites references). The data produced as part of the thesis may be provided in open source format to enrich existing websites devoted to digitized chapbooks collections. Data obtained via trained model OCR could be contributed, possibly enriched by applying Named Entity Recognition (useful for detecting referent variability). 

Domaine :

Littérature – Linguistique – Humanités numériques- TAL – Histoire de l’imprimé

REFERENCES

-    Andries, Lise, et Bollème, Geneviève (éd.), La Bibliothèque bleue, en collaboration avec G.Bollème, Paris, Laffont, 2003.

-    Botrel, Jean-François, Les Aveugles colporteurs d'imprimés en Espagne, Mélanges de la casa Velazquez, 1993, n°9, p. 417-482.

-    Chartier, Roger, Lectures et lecteurs dans la France d’Ancien Régime, Seuil, Univers historique, 1987.

-    Chartier, Roger, et Lüsebrink Hans-Jürgen (dir.), Colportage et lecture populaire. Imprimés de grande circulation en Europe, XVIᵉ-XIXᵉ siècles, Paris, IMEC Éditions et Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1996.

-    Dubois, Jacques, L’institution de la littérature. Introduction à une sociologie, Bruxelles, Éditions Labor/Fernand Nathan, 1983.

-    Dufter, Philipp et Schütze, “Hinrich Identifying elements essential for BERT’s multilinguality”,  in Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020, p.  4423–4437.

-    Fontaine, Laurence, Histoire du colportage en Europe (XVᵉ-XIXᵉ siècle), Paris, Albin Michel, 1993. 

-     Imani Googhari, Ayyoob et Lin, Peiqin et Kargaran, Amir Hossein  et Severini, Silvia et Sabe, Masoud Jalili et Kassner, Nora et Ma, Chunlan et  Schmid, Helmut  et Martins, André, et Yvon, François et Schütze, Hinrich Glot500: Scaling Multilingual Corpora and Language Models to 500 Languages,  61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, p. 1082–1117.

-    Keilhauer, Annette, « La compétence vendue : Aspects de la relation entre éditeurs, chanteurs et public dans le colportage des chansons à Paris au XVIIIe s. », dans Chansons de colportage, Reims, ÉPURE - Éditions et Presses universitaires de Reims, 2002, p. 171-190.

-    Mandrou, Robert, De la culture populaire aux XVIIᵉ-XVIIIIᵉ siècles, La Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes, Paris, Stock, 1964.

 

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The University of Cambridge invites applications for the Drapers Professorship of French (closing date 14 November 2022). This post will fall vacant on 30 September 2023 upon the retirement of Professor Michael Moriarty FBA, the current occupant. The Drapers Chair is one of the flagship established chairs of the university’s School of Arts and Humanities and one of the pre-eminent chairs in French in the UK. The Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics seeks a world-class academic with t​he ability to engage in ground-breaking research and to inspire the next generation of students and colleagues.

 

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/311225/drapers-pro…

The Department of Global Languages and Cultures at Rollins College, a private liberal arts college in central Florida, invites applications for a tenure-track position to teach French courses at all levels and other topic courses, beginning Fall 2023. The position is open to a generalist, preferably those with knowledge of transatlantic studies and/or Francophone African studies.



The position also involves a significant educational leadership role that includes, among other things, academic planning, curriculum and program development, and innovation. Other responsibilities may include: student advising, recruitment and placement, course coordination, and service on administrative committees.



The successful candidate will have a strong commitment to teaching and curriculum development, and show promise of pedagogical innovation and educational leadership. They will be expected to participate in departmental events and initiatives, to maintain an excellent record of teaching and service. The successful candidate must also be able to contribute to a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment at Rollins College. We view differences (e.g., nationality, race, gender, age, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, physical ability, perspectives) as rich opportunities for understanding, learning, and growth.



The successful candidate should:

Ph.D degree in French, Applied linguistics, Linguistics, Second Language acquisition, at the time of the appointment.

Commitment to undergraduate teaching excellence and to our liberal arts mission.

Native or near-native fluency in French and English.

Demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence in the liberal arts.

Ability to contribute to, help foster, and sustain a diverse and inclusive. learning and working environment at Rollins.

The teaching load is 3/3.



Founded in 1885, Rollins is Florida's oldest recognized college. Rollins is an independent, comprehensive, residential liberal arts college. The campus, noted for its lakefront beauty and for its unique location, is set in the residential community of Winter Park, just 15 minutes from one of the nation's most dynamic urban centers, Orlando. For the last 10 years, U.S. News & World Report ranked Rollins No. 1 or No. 2 among southern regional universities. Rollins is one of only 36 Ashoka U Changemaker Campuses in the world. For additional information, please visit the College website at www.rollins.edu.



Minimum Qualifications and Education:

Ph.D degree in French, Applied linguistics, Linguistics, Second Language acquisition, at the time of the appointment.

Commitment to undergraduate teaching excellence and to our liberal arts mission.

Native or near-native fluency in French and English.

Demonstrated commitment to teaching excellence in the liberal arts.

Ability to contribute to, help foster, and sustain a diverse and inclusive. learning and working environment at Rollins.

Instructions to Applicants:



Interested applicants must apply online via the College's employment website and upload the following materials as follows:

Letter of Application

Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Statement

Provide three reference names and email addresses on application

**Preference will be given to candidates who apply by November 21st, 2022. Position is open until filled.**



Inquiries can be directed to:

Sana Alaya Seghair

French Coordinator, Global Languages and Cultures Department

sseghair@rollins.edu

To apply, visit https://jobs.rollins.edu/en-us/job/493378/assistant-professor-frenchjei… 6b0674ce

The Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Western Washington University is inviting applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning September 2023. We seek a generalist in French with a specialization in pre-19th century French literature to teach a broad spectrum of French language and content courses in the undergraduate curriculum.

Responsibilities include: Standard quarter-system teaching assignment (2-2-2); exemplary teaching; active program of scholarly activity; service to the French section and to the Department through a range of activities. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill teaching and mentoring responsibilities in ways that provide equitable and inclusive learning environments for all students. 

Required Qualifications:

PhD at time of application or ABD at time of application with a specialization in French literature in any period from the Middle Ages up to and including the 18th century. If ABD, all degree requirements must be completed by June 15, 2024.

Ability to teach French language at all levels of the curriculum (including grammar and composition) as well as content courses in literature and culture

Native or near-native French and English proficiency

Demonstrated excellence in teaching

Demonstrated commitment to excellence in scholarship and a dynamic research agenda

Ability to work effectively with diverse students and colleagues, including a demonstrated ability and commitment to cultivate learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

Application Instructions: Application materials must be submitted via WWU’s electronic application system (PageUp) at https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty. Candidates must upload (1) a letter of application that describes their teaching philosophy and research plans and that addresses the required qualifications; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) graduate school transcripts; (4) a sampling of teaching evaluations; and (5) a separate statement that addresses the ability to work effectively with diverse students and colleagues, and a commitment to fulfill teaching and mentoring responsibilities in ways that provide equitable and inclusive learning environments for all students (max. length one page). As part of the online application process, candidates will be asked to provide contact information for three references. Three recommendation letters are required, and these will be automatically requested, upon submission of the application, from the references provided.

Closing Date Notes: Position closes on November 1; applications must be received by this date. Screening interviews are anticipated to take place via Zoom in early December. Finalist interviews are anticipated to be conducted in January 2023.

Western Washington University (WWU) is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained faculty and staff. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.

Job Number: 519118

Position: Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies

Effective Date: August 17, 2023 (Fall Semester)

Salary Range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

Application Deadline: Review of applications to begin November 1, 2022. Position opened until filled (or recruitment canceled).                                     

College of Liberal Arts

Department of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures

Required Qualifications:       

Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies, with specialization in any area of Medieval, Renaissance, 17th and/or 18th century French Studies. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2023.

Ability to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels in French

Demonstrated potential or evidence of effective teaching at the college level

Demonstrated potential or evidence of successful research and publication

Commitment to and/or expertise in educating an ethnically, culturally, academically, and economically diverse student population through inclusive teaching practices

Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population          

Preferred Qualifications:                  

Evidence of academic training in one or more of the following specializations: transnational studies; intersectional approaches to race, gender and/or ethnicity; ecocriticism and environmental studies; literature and politics; material culture; cultural studies, migration studies; performance studies; Atlantic studies; digital humanities; or other cognate fields.

Evidence of ability to effectively teach one or more current University course offerings in French language, literature and culture at the undergraduate level (e.g., survey courses, GE courses) and graduate seminars in research methods, on a century, author or theme

Evidence of ability to develop new and creative course offerings in French and Francophone Studies that engage issues of diversity

Commitment to student recruitment and program development

Evidence of support for and/or experience related to the University’s strong commitment to the academic success of its diverse student body

Evidence of ability to engage in research leading to conference participation and peer-reviewed publication

Evidence of interest in or experience with department, college, university, or community service

We invite applications from candidates whose teaching finds dynamic ways of translating these fields of study to undergraduate students. The successful candidate will be able to teach classes at all levels in French. We seek flexible teacher-scholars willing to work across disciplines, innovate and update curricula in collaboration with faculty from other language areas in the department. The ideal candidate will mentor students and build our program through outreach and excellence in teaching. Our search prioritizes applicants who will contribute to a climate that values diversity in all its forms.

Duties:                                    

Teach and develop courses in French and Francophone Studies at the undergraduate and graduate levels. [Mode of instruction may include in-person, hybrid, online, and/or any combination thereof].

Advise and mentor students, including the supervision of Master’s students taking comprehensive exams

Engage in research leading to conference participation and peer-reviewed publications

Participate in faculty governance

Participate in service to the department, college, university, and community

CSULB seeks to recruit faculty who enthusiastically support the University’s strong commitment to the academic success of all of our students, including students of color, students with disabilities, students who are first generation to college, veterans, students with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and students of diverse sexual orientations and gender expressions. CSULB seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the People of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students a rich variety of expertise, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning.

Information on excellent benefits package available to CSULB faculty is located here: https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/careers/benefits/Documents/employe…

How to Apply - Required Documentation:                          

An Equity and Diversity Statement about your teaching or other experiences, successes, and challenges in working with a diverse student population (maximum two pages, single-spaced). For further information and guidelines, please visit: http://www.csulb.edu/EquityDiversityStatement

Letter of application addressing the required and preferred qualifications

CV

Three references (to be contacted for confidential letters of recommendation finalist stage)

Writing sample related to the candidate’s area of research (in French or English)

Evidence of effective teaching, if applicable (i.e. student evaluations)

Finalists should be prepared to submit an official transcript (e-transcript preferred, if available)

How to Apply: Click Apply Now icon to complete the CSULB online application

Scripps College, a women's liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure-track position in the department of French and Francophone Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in Fall 2023.



We are seeking candidates with primary research and teaching interests in French cultural studies or French intellectual history who work at the intersection of history, sociology, anthropology, or politics. A concentration on popular culture (in the French sense of culture populaire) or on material culture is desirable as is an interest in gender and sexuality studies or critical race theory.  While we will consider any historical era, preference will be given to the medieval and early modern periods.



The successful candidate will be a dynamic teacher-scholar with a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching all levels of French language as well as courses on French history from a global perspective. The teaching load at Scripps is four courses per academic year, and advising on senior theses is expected. Participation in the Scripps Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities is expected. Native or near-native fluency in French and English is required. Ph.D. required.



Scripps College is one of the seven members of The Claremont Colleges cluster located 35 miles east of Los Angeles. In keeping with its ongoing commitment to build and support a diverse and equitable academic community, Scripps College actively encourages applications from women and members of historically underrepresented groups. Preference will be given to applicants committed to improving higher education for underrepresented students.



Review of applications will begin October 3rd, 2022 and applications must be received by November 7th, 2022 to be considered. Applicants should submit the following materials online at http://apply.interfolio.com/111002: a letter of application, a C.V., a statement addressing how the candidate intends to contribute to the College's goal of improving diversity, equity, and inclusion on campus, a teaching philosophy statement, a writing sample, and three current letters of reference. Please no email submissions.



For questions, please contact:



Professor Nathalie Rachlin



Chair, Search Committee



Scripps College



1030 Columbia Avenue



Claremont, CA 91711



FrenchSearch@scrippscollege.edu

Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies, Middlebury College, MIDDLEBURY, VT -- The Lois '51 and J. Harvey Watson Department of French and Francophone Studies invites applicants for a full-time tenure track position in the field of pre-1900 literature and culture beginning fall 2023. The successful candidate's research and teaching should situate French and Francophone culture in a transnational framework and address colonization. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in digital humanities and visual culture. Candidates with a focus on ecocriticism or gender studies are also encouraged to apply. Ideal candidates will be interested in working in a collaborative environment in a small liberal arts college setting. Applicants must have native or near native command of French (this includes all its varieties: European, Caribbean, North American, African, etc.) and should have completed all Ph.D. requirements by August 2023. Candidates must show evidence and/or promise of excellence in teaching students from diverse backgrounds and have an active research agenda. We are seeking outstanding teachers with demonstrated experience in teaching French language at all levels in an immersive environment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach elementary and intermediate language courses, as well as upper-level content-oriented courses, and contribute regularly to the college-wide curriculum, including the first-year seminar program and winter term curriculum. Ability to teach in English and interest in cross-departmental collaboration in Middlebury's Black Studies Program is also highly desirable.



Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research and where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. The College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body.To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, with the all the complexity and individuality each person brings. With your application materials provide a separate, one-page statement on inclusion that addresses how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service demonstrate a commitment to and/or evidence of engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to Julien Weber the search committee chair; a curriculum vitae; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; a statement of teaching and research plans; and three current letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise. More information is available at http://apply.interfolio.com/108113 and https://www.middlebury.edu/colle…. The application deadline is November 1st, 2022.

Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found here: http://go.middlebury.edu/backgroundchecks







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Middlebury College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of minority groups are especially encouraged.