Job Title Assistant Professor or Associate Professor.
Rank Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure-Track). The rank is commensurate with experience.
Areas of Expertise Candidates must demonstrate research and teaching expertise in one or more of the following subfields:
Arts, Media, and Digital Cultures: Interdisciplinary study of classical and contemporary Arab cultural production across the Middle East and North Africa, including the use of computational methods to examine language, texts and culture, in a context of postcolonial realities and geopolitical change.
Arab World, Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational Studies: Forced and voluntary displacement, border-crossing narratives, and global Arab identity networks.
Middle East Studies: Broad contextual knowledge of the region's historical, geopolitical, linguistic, and socio-demographic complexities.
Comparative Studies: Ability to place Arab societies and cultural production in conversation with global, transregional, or Western artistic movements.
Imperialism, Colonialism, and Development: Critical frameworks evaluating power dynamics, postcolonial realities, and geopolitical shifts.
Social change in Arab societies: Intersectional approaches that examine the dynamics of social change with respect to gender, identity, demographics, and the family in contemporary societies.
Responsibilities Active research and knowledge mobilization program
Teaching
Recruitment and supervision of graduate students




Service to the community
Develop research projects in Arab Studies
Leadership in the development of a transdisciplinary Arab Studies research initiative across the University
Coordinate the Department's Arabic Language and Culture section
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Arab Studies in both French and English
Recruit and train graduate students
Term Tenure-Track position.
Salary The starting salary for an Assistant Professor is $99,377 (according to the scale in effect as of May 1, 2025). Consideration for other ranks may occur under exceptional conditions.
Benefits lоng-tеrm disability cоverage
basic life insurance
supplеmеntary hеаlth bеnefits
a pensiоn plаn
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Work location Department of Contemporary Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier East Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5
Contact Dr. Luis Abanto, Chair, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Ottawa, email : [email protected]
Qualifications Education : Possess a doctorate (Ph.D.) by July 1, 2027, in Arab Studies, with demonstrated expertise in AFL pedagogy, Arabic and Comparative Literature, Middle East Studies, Arab Media/Cultural Studies, or a related discip
Anticipated start date The anticipated start date for this position is July 1st, 2027.

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