RS to Hire FT Lecturers in Spanish
Boston University’s Department of Romance Studies invites applications for full-time non-tenure track Lecturer positions in Spanish with starting dates of January or September 2022, depending on availability. The initial appointment period will be 2-years. Responsibilities include teaching all levels of Spanish. Requirements include: an M.A. (at minimum) in a relevant field; native or near native […]
Vassar College – Assist. Prof. French
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Tenure Track, Vassar College Vassar is a highly selective, coeducational liberal arts college of about 2400 undergraduates (no graduate students) located in the beautiful and historic Hudson Valley seventy-five miles north of New York City. The city of Poughkeepsie benefits from rich cultural diversity and from convenient commuter […]
Pennsylvania State University – African Francophone Studies
The Department of French and Francophone Studies and the African Studies Program at The Pennsylvania State University invite applications for a joint two-year position in 20th- and 21st-century African Francophone Literary Studies. Engagement with theoretical approaches to social change, politics of Francophone Literary Studies and gender studies are desirable. Duties include working and advising graduate students, teaching the […]
NeMLA 2022
Emory University – French Lecturer
Emory University’s Department of French and Italian announces a Lectureship in French to begin fall 2022 with a 3/2 teaching load. We seek a scholar-practitioner passionate about teaching French at all levels of the undergraduate French curriculum, especially at the 100, 200 and 300 levels. The new colleague will join a dynamic group of colleagues in […]
BUCH: Humanities Without Walls
We are writing to DGSs in the humanities and related departments/programs with information regarding Humanities Without Walls, a two-week summer fellowship opportunity for PhD students that will be held in-person at The University of Michigan Ann Arbor in 2022. BUCH will review internal applications and put forth one applicant from BU to the national committee […]
Kelly Publishes Book
Dorothy Kelly, Professor of French, has published a new book, The Living Death of Modernity: Balzac, Baudelaire, Zola (Cambridge UK: Legenda, 2021). In a Spotlight piece on the RS website earlier this year, Prof. Kelly talked about how she arrived at this topic: “Several years ago, I noticed something strange in the novels and stories […]
NeMLA: Lat. Am. Ruins
The climate crisis, the economic crisis, the refugee crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic has called to the forefront the experience of contemporary beings which forces us to re-evaluate the place of the human in the current world, calling into question the crisis of the universal mode of man and human exceptionalism. Such a displacement in […]
New Positions for Recent Alumni
Congratulations to all of our recent doctoral graduates who have been hired to new posts beginning this September! Carolina Blazquez will be a visiting assistant professor of Hispanic literatures at the College of the Holy Cross. Christopher Eldrett has accepted a position as a visiting lecturer teaching Spanish at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Laurie […]
Transnational Contact Zones
CFP for conference on Transnational Contact Zones: African and South Asian Sexualities and Genders. https://mcusercontent.com/9d6494985a6be74b872ec1203/files/b622f21b-8e37-b663-66a9-5cca1004c244/TCZ_CALL_FOR_PAPERS_LONG_VERSION_1_1_1_1_1_.pdf