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
- оptiоnal lifе insurance
- and rеimbursement fоr rеlосatiоn eхpenses.

Work location

Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier East Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5

Contact

Dr. Luis Abanto, Chair, Department of Up-to-date 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.

📌 Assistant Professor (Ottawa)
🏢 University of Ottawa
📍 Ottawa