The Williams College Romance Languages Department welcomes applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of French, whose appointment will begin on July 1, 2022. We seek candidates with a record of outstanding teaching in French language who have scholarly expertise in French and/or Francophone literatures and cultures before 1800. We are particularly eager to meet candidates whose intellectual work centers on one or more of the following: intersectional approaches to race and ethnicity, environmental studies and ecocriticism, science and technology, digital and media studies, performance studies, or transnational studies. We invite applications from candidates whose scholarship takes French and/or Francophone Studies in new and exciting directions, and whose teaching finds innovative and dynamic ways of translating these fields of study to undergraduate students.
The teaching load includes four regular courses each year: two in French language and two in pre-1800 French and/or Francophone literature and culture (in the candidate’s areas of specialization). We are thus seeking outstanding teachers with demonstrated experience teaching French language, especially at the intermediate level. Candidates must also have demonstrated experience (and/or innovative and concrete course ideas) for teaching advanced-level courses in literature and culture, in their areas of specialization. The teaching load also includes a January course every other year. Candidates should have native or near-native fluency in French, and hold a Ph.D. in French Language and Literature, or in Comparative Literature (with a specialization in French and/or Francophone Studies), with their Ph.D. in hand by August 2022.
The college and department value teaching and research equally, and will expect the new colleague to contribute to the vitality of our vibrant French program, via dynamic courses, inspiring research, and extracurricular programming. For more on French at Williams, visit our website at: https://french.williams.edu
The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the rich intellectual life of a campus comprising colleagues and students from widely diverse backgrounds. Candidates from groups that are underrepresented in academia are particularly encouraged to apply.
Applications are due no later than November 15, 2021 and must include a cover letter, CV, and 3 letters of recommendation (at least one of which addresses the candidate’s promise as a teacher). In the cover letter, candidates should speak in detail about their scholarship, teaching experience, and ability to create inclusive classrooms for a diverse student population representing a wide range of races, ethnicities, religions, classes, genders, and sexualities. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. All materials should be addressed to Professor Brian Martin (Chair), and must be submitted through Interfolio using this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/92546