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Assistant / Associate Professor - Francophone African Literature/Film and/or Culture with Primary Research Focus South of the Maghreb Position Overview

• Position Title: Assistant Professor or Associate Professor
• Salary Range: $80,800-$128,700 for Assistant Professor; $99,600-$149,500 for Associate Professor. Off‑scale salary and additional components may be offered to achieve competitive compensation.
• Anticipated
  
  Start Date:
  
  July 1, 2026
• Application Window: Open:
  October 20, 2025 – November 20, 2025 11:59 pm (Pacific Time). For full consideration, applications should be received by November 20, 2025.

The Department of French at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a tenure‑track position as Assistant Professor of French or a tenured position as Associate Professor focusing on Francophone African literature/film and/or culture, the primary research focus lying south of the Maghreb. The expected start date is July 1, 2026.

Responsibilities will include deep expertise in literary, film, and/or cultural studies related to non‑Maghrebi African Francophone studies, demonstrated through formal study or publication record, and excellence in teaching. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses and graduate seminars for students with a range of disciplinary interests.

Research can span a variety of topics and approaches, including, but not limited to, African Diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, film studies, or translation studies.

In the Department of French at UC Berkeley, our dedicated and creative faculty share a commitment to excellence in teaching, whether in introductory French, specialized majors course, literature in translation, or advanced graduate seminar. We encourage independent and innovative thinking and research at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Our undergraduate majors, minors, and graduate programs offer thorough coverage in all periods of French and Francophone literatures and cultures, along with related fields and topics— from literary history and theory to philosophy, social and cultural theory, historical and contemporary linguistics, gender and sexuality, critical race theory, colonial and post‑colonial studies, historiography, visual arts and film, music, popular culture, and politics.

We participate fully in interdisciplinary emphasis that has traditionally distinguished study and research y faculty members are affiliated with other programs at the University, such as Comparative Literature, Italian Studies, Film & Media, Linguistics, Romance Languages and Literatures, Medieval Studies, and various designations and centers.

The department supports faculty families, dual‑career couples, single parents, and values non‑traditional career paths or time taken off for family reasons.

• Basic
  
  Qualification:
  
  PhD (or equivalent international degree), or enrollment in such a degree program at the time of application.
• Additional Qualifications (required at start): Native or near‑native French language proficiency to conduct courses in French.
• Preferred Qualifications: Evidence of excellence/distinction in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses.
• Preferred (optional): Knowledge of another African language spoken in Francophone Africa (e.g., Wolof, Pulaar).
• Evidence of ability to conduct top‑quality research.

• 3 required (contact information only).

Letters of recommendation will be requested for candidates under serious consideration at a later stage of recruitment.

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