Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Digital Visual Cultures Middle East and North

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Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor - Digital Visual Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa

Arts and Sciences | Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures / Humanities-based Interdisciplinary World Languages and Cultures / Digital Visual Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa / Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures / College of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (NESA) at The Ohio State University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Humanities-based Interdisciplinary World Languages and Cultures beginning August 15, 2027. We aim to hire a dynamic scholar who will contribute to the vibrant and collegial intellectual communities of our department by engaging with interdisciplinary research, innovative teaching, program development, community engagement, and service.

This is one of three Postdoctoral Scholar to Tenure-Track Assistant Professor positions in Humanities-based Interdisciplinary World Languages and Cultures, the other two being in the departments of French and Italian and Germanic Languages and Literatures. We are also conducting searches for three Tenure-Track Assistant Professors position in Transnational World Language Studies in the departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Spanish and Portuguese and Slavic, and East Europeans Languages and Cultures.

In keeping with the department’s commitment to interdisciplinarity, we are especially interested in scholars of digital visual cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

The successful candidate will engage the relationship between cultures, identities, and digital visual media in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and/or its diasporas globally, focusing on areas such as cinema, digital arts and curatorial practices, and the circulation of images across platforms. The successful candidate will fill a critical gap in our departmental offerings by studying visual cultures and/or media in dynamic relationship with the social, political, and artistic communities they create or engage.

We are particularly interested in scholars whose research and teaching reflect the department’s commitment to interdisciplinary research in the languages of MENA expressive cultures. Candidates must demonstrate high proficiency in at least one major language of the region and a record of integrating language expertise and interdisciplinary scholarship. Experience in and/or commitment to public-facing or community engaged scholarship is preferred, in particular around initiatives relating to working with undergraduate students through interdisciplinary experiential…