French and Francophone Studies 2024-2025

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Wiki page for Academic Jobs in French & Francophone Literature & Culture advertised during the 2024-2025 hiring season. This page is for jobs that start in 2025.

Last year's page: French and Francophone Studies 2023-2024

See also Critical Theory 2024-2025, Ethnic Studies 2024-2025, Comparative Literature 2024-2025, and Philosophy 2024-2025.

See also Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2024-2025

Instructions

Please add jobs with the following format:

Name of college/university, title/rank, preferred area(s) of specialization, application due date, link to job ad.

Follow alphabetical order for school names. As job search progress indicators become available, add the type of information and date. The link to a job description can be deleted after the application due date. After an offer has been accepted, please underline the name of the institution so that we can easily see which positions have already been filled.

For example:

1. Midwest Dreamland C, asst. prof., 20th C, due 2024-11-17, link
   • writing sample requested by email, 2024-12-05 (x5)
   • phone interview scheduled, 2024-12-15 (x4)
   • MLA interview scheduled, 2024-12-20 (x3) is that
   • on-campus interview invitation, 2025-1-2
   • offer extended, 2025-3-2
   • offer accepted, 2025-3-3
   • rejection letter received, 2025-6-3

Please post "Have you heard?" questions below, under Word on the Street.

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Jobs for 2025

Senior Faculty/Tenured

1. Amherst College (Amherst, MA). Open rank, TT. Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and/or Asia. Welcomed: interdisciplinary approach with research interests in any combination of the following: colonial and post-colonial history, environmental humanities, medical humanities, gender and sexuality studies, and visual studies. DUE 09/16/2024. LINK
2. Universität Wuppertal (Wuppertal, GRMN). W2. Professorship in French Literature and Cultural Studies. DUE 10/07/2024. LINK
   

Tenure-Track

1. Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA). TT. Assistant Professor in Francophone African Studies. Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa or the Maghreb. DUE 10/21/2024 LINK
2. Grinnell College (Grinnell, IA). TT. Assistant Prof. preferred (ABD and Assoc. possible). Francophone Caribbean Studies. Welcomed: ecocriticism, film and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, or theatre and performance studies, reading or speaking creole. DUE 10/15/2024. LINK
3. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). TT. Professor in African literature and cultural studies. Specialization in any of the major language traditions for African literature is welcome (Anglophone, Francophone, Lusophone, Hispanophone, Afrophone). DUE 09/16/2024*. LINK
4. Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT). TT. Assistant Prof. of French and francophone studies. 20th and 21st c. including Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, North Africa and the Indian Ocean. Highly desirable: film, new media, digital humanities, theater and performance, gender and sexuality studies, and race. DUE 10/15/2024. LINK
5. Northwestern University (Evanston, IL). Assistant or Assoc. Professor of Sub-Saharan Francophone African Literatures and Cultures (TT). Country/region and period of specialization are open, but we seek candidates with a background in literary studies enhanced by interdisciplinary strengths in, for example, cinema and media studies; critical approaches to race; cultural studies; environmental humanities; gender and sexuality studies; performance studies; or world literature. DUE 11/01/2024. LINK
6. Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH). TT. Assistant Professor of French. "[I]ncumbent will teach the standard teaching load (4.5 courses per year) in the general area of French language (2 courses per year), as well as literatures and cultures from French-speaking countries except France (ie. countries in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the Caribbean, Haiti, Québec, etc.). Candidates are invited to propose Francophone courses that offer wide undergraduate appeal and intersect with one of the following new integrative concentrations/majors at Oberlin: business, global health, public humanities, journalism, peace and conflict studies, public humanities." DUE 10/7/2024. LINK
7. Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA). TT. Assistant Prof of French Studies. Specialization in French/Francophone literature, film, or cultural studies. DUE 10/15/2024. LINK.
8. Texas A&M University (College Station, TX). TT. Assistant Professor in Global Studies. "Applicants should demonstrate evidence of a strong research program, a record of successful independent teaching, and be credentialed to teach culture and language courses at all undergraduate levels in at least one of the language programs in the Department [French is included]. Commitment to developing new courses in Global Studies and teaching existing Global Studies and advanced language courses while maintaining a high-level research program is essential." DUE 10/15/2024. LINK
9. University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ). TT. Assistant Professor to serve as Director of Basic Language Program (BLP), with a Ph.D. (in hand at time of appointment) in French, French linguistics, Applied linguistics, second language acquisition, or a closely related field. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: integrating French for Professional Purposes, technology in language education, online second language education. DUE 11/15/2024. LINK
10. Université Catholique de Louvain (Brussels, BE). Maître de conférences à plein temps. Histoire de la littérature française. Spécialisation en littérature française du XVIIIe ou du XIXe constitue un atout. DUE 11/12/2024. LINK
11. University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC). TT. Assistant prof. of French Education. DUE 09/05/2024. LINK
12. University of Georgia (Athens, GA). TT. Assistant professor of French. We are seeking an innovative and versatile colleague whose research and teaching interests complement those of our current faculty. We particularly welcome candidates whose work engages a range of disciplines within a wide understanding of cultural studies. DUE 11/15/2024. LINK
13. University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS). TT. Assistant Professor in French. Open search/specialization. DUE 10/30/2024 LINK
14. University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, NB). TT. Professeur•e adjoint•e en études françaises. Littérature francophone du Canada avec spécialisation en au moins deux des domaines suivants : littérature québécoise, littérature francophone du Canada hors-Québec, littérature autochtone de langue française, postcolonialisme, écriture féministe, éco-littérature, littérature de personnes de couleur et littérature LGBTQIA2S+. DUE ?. LINK
15. University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX). TT. Assistant prof. of French and Francophone Studies. Open field, but particularly interested in people working on the Caribbean, Africa, the Americas, and beyond. DUE 09/30/2024. LINK
16. Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). Assistant prof. of French. 20th- and 21st-century France and women's lit. DUE 10/7/2024. LINK
17. Yale University (New Haven, CT). Assistant prof (TT) Early Modern French Theater and Performance (1500-1800). DUE 11/15/2024. LINK

Full-time, non-tenure-track

1. Australian National University (Canberra, ACT, Australia). Associate Lecturer of French. DUE 10/15/2024. LINK Australia doesn't have the specific tenure process, but this is a permanent, ongoing role.
2. Boston College (Boston, MA). Assistant Professor of the Practice in French/Coordinator of French Language Program (3 yr. renewable post). DUE 11/01/2024. Link.
3. Georgetown University (Washington, DC). Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of French and Francophone Studies, hiring 2 people (3 yr with possible promotion within the non-tenure line). DUE 11/15/2024. LINK
4. Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW–Madison, (Madison, WI). Kingdon Fellowships and Solmsen Fellowships (1 yr. fellowship). DUE 10/24/2024. LINK.
5. United States Military Academy (West Point, NY). Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of French (3yr; Fall 2025-Spring 2028). DUE 10/11/2024. Link.
6. Virginia Military Institute (Lexington, VA). Visiting Assistant Professor of French (3 yr; Jan 2025 start). OPEN UNTIL FILLED. LINK
7. Washington College (Chestertown, MD). Visiting Assistant Professor of French (1 semester - Spring 2025 - with possibility of ongoing appointment). OPEN UNTIL FILLED. LINK.

Word on the Street

09/30. Didn't Bucknell do a Francophone Africa search last year? Did the search fail or is this a new search?

-- Yes, they did. From the language that was used by recruiters in final rejections, I assume that the search failed. I could still be wrong though.

09/26 - If "French is excluded" why the hell is the Texas A/M add on here, on the French/Francophone page? It's enough that all jobs are Francophone, now they have to ban or exclude France completely. Enough of this!

-- Wut? It reads 'French is Included'?

---I moved this thread up because I want to avoid last year's mini hell that was scrolling all the way to bottom of the page to get updated on discussions. Anyway, if you read the Interfolio page for the job posting there's nothing that says French is excluded. It's a big job search.

-Might be an edit. I saw excluded as well. Regardless not the first time it happens. Black France, Francophone French, Caribbean , Sub-Saharan etc.... One idea : Baudelaire, Hugo and Lamartine need to be completely erased from the curriculum and be replaced by Sub-Saharan litt. It's time for curriculum reparations!

--^This was gross to read. Can we not go in this direction, please? Even as a generalist in 19c, I see why this change is happening. Francophone lit hasn't always been historically included, so it's been swelling for a few years now. Last year was big on the Early Modern. There are also some pretty generalist jobs that would appreciate the Francophone, but it's not required. It ebbs and flows. (x64)

-- I think seeing it as an "ebb and flow" is appalling and quite naive. Confusing a necessary inclusion with the systemic exclusion of another field "of the past" is a problem that speaks to a lack of critical thinking. Calling it "gross" is misplaced virtue signaling as well as just primitive. End of discussion for me.

-- The comment above is disturbing. Insulting people's intelligence and calling them "primitive" because they are arguing in favor of more inclusion of French speakers from outside of France (the vast majority of whom are non-white) appears to be taken out of the rhetorical playbook of white supremacy. Calling anyone primitive is always a means to label people as "less then" and dehumanize them. It is particularly atrocious to see this word used in a discussion about the presence of Francophonist positions. We all know there is a racial dynamic at play in the France/Francophone divide, and we all know the long history of dehumanizing colonized people of color with words such as "primitive." I hope this dangerous hate speech is no longer allowed on this wiki.

-- Stirring the discussion to race and hate speech when the question was clearly about jobs and whether to include French literature or not is not only gaslighting and dangerous, but I would say this is indeed hate speech. Beeing a specialist of French literature doesn't imply anything about skin color, many persons of colors can be specialists of Baudelaire or Rousseau. Implying otherwise could in fact very well be considered racist, I hope the person above advocating for removal of "dangerous hate speech" realizes it concerns their comment directly.

-- The conversation about the rift/relationship between France and the rest of the Francophone world has been about race for centuries, ever since France colonized millions of people of color around the world. Pretending otherwise would mean completely ignoring this history. The reason why Francophone jobs had not been common until the past couple of decades is precisely because of racism. This discussion about jobs is racially charged, as is the term primitive. Of course people of any race can study Baudelaire if they want, and people of all races have been doing so for over a century. That's not the matter at hand. The matter at hand is why there are some many Francophonist jobs at the moment and the fear that France is being completely excluded from the field. Allowing people to use racially charged terms like "primitive" without bringing in the racism that resulted in a true dearth of jobs for those who do not study France until quite recently is a dishonest and incomplete representation of the situation.

-- I know a person of color who taught in a top tier French Department who confessed being stuck in a "Francophone" field and that they wouldn't be taken seriously teaching their actual speciality, which happen to be 18th century French Literature. That is a problem too! So yes, I think we can talk about the importance of maintaining both fields active, French and Francophone, without necessarly doing too many race comparisons which can be awkward sometimes. Let me add that the comment in question being attacked did start by describing "a necessary inclusion", so I don't think the historical representation was dishonest here. Hope this thread can move on from this topic. Solidarité à toutes/tous!

--^ I understand your frustration re: specialties but I would say the "hot" subfields right now are not only "francophonie" but also language instruction and career humanities (eg medical and health humanities, digital humanities, environmental etc), and this last one never gets any criticism. I think French is at least less turned into a technical skill alone than other languages, in Spanish most positions are sociolinguistics type stuff which is very much needed, sure, but it does a disservice to the study of culture and art. See this piece by Ignacio Sanchez-Prado: https://www.chronicle.com/article/academes-shameful-neglect-of-spanish/. French is not quite there yet.

9/27: no one wants to read an exchange of inflammatory insults, that's not what this page is for. This is not a good year for the market, it is a shockingly small number of available jobs and many of us will be struggling with that. There is a lot of randomness in what jobs become available (often depending on when a tenured prof. retires or dies, let's be honest) so I don't think we can speculate that one specialization is "replacing" another so much as simply growing, while posts available for more "traditional" specializations are probably just occupied by mid-career or late-career professors. In any case this page becomes difficult to use and navigate when comments devolve like this. solidarité à tous et toutes (x74)

9/28. Agree with comment directly above. I don't want to take up too much space, but I wanted to add on to that sentiment and ask that we refrain from doxx'ing candidates and very specific search-related information this year, which was a huge issue last year. Moreover, let's stop arguing if certain candidates "earned it" or not, which has happened in recent years re: publication amounts, training, etc. Departments are diverse with department-specific wants and needs. We're not in the faculty meetings. We can't get too into the weeds of why and how certain searches go the way they do (which is already happening in the Yale thread below). We can only do our best in this roulette wheel of a market. Comme dit, solidarité à tous et à toutes !

-- 9/29 I responded to the original 9/15 speculations about the Yale post in an attempt to reassure applicants and diffuse anxiety and speculation. Since it appears that my words had the opposite effect, I deleted them. RE from Yale speculation OP: I appreciated your answer about it. I don't think you needed to delete it. I don't see how it was misinterpreted (although I didn't seek to put it in connection with above rife). Commenter from 9/27: I also appreciated your answer! No shame to you or anybody who spoke in the Yale dialogue--I understand the anxieties, but it will very often devolve, especially if we look at years past. Your response was helpful in quelling the fears.

09/18. *Harvard's African lit TT was due last week but they just reposted the ad so they might've extended the due date. I would ask them personally.

09/15 Anybody else feel like the Yale posting is so incredibly specific and dense, it seems to be targeting someone in particular?

--not really - personally I didn't get that impression from it at all, I think they just have a specific idea of what they consider to be excellence and what they perceive to be the intellectual culture of their department. trust me if Yale had someone specific in mind they wanted to hire they would just do it, they wouldn't go to the trouble of posting a job ad soliciting applications

09/12 - Are there any Amherst insiders here? Any clue why they keep reposting the ad and extending the due date? I was tempted to apply but I don't really do the regions they ask for, and I seriously doubt they won't get enough applicants who do work in those.

• Not an insider, but my only guess was that they wanted to get more applicants. For me, they were the first application due by ~3 weeks (with their initial deadline).

07/17 - Removed these positions that start in Fall 2024: Webster University (St. Louis, MO) and Louisiana Tech (Ruston, LA). Other positions that start 2024 that people might be interested in are UC Riverside French lecturer & Athabasca University (Alberta, Canada) tenure track French professor.

06/27 - It seems like the Webster University job is a Fall 2024 hire, as I was told by the department's secretary. I am still working on confirming this info, but honestly I think it'd be great if someone else also doublechecked that. The posting does not mention any start date or deadline. Edit: Got confirmation from the Dean's Office about a Fall 2024 start date.