Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities
The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University announces a new initiative in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities. We seek a Director prepared to develop this project and several new faculty who are interested in collaborating with it as they assume specific disciplinary positions.
The new major in Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University represents an innovative approach to the study of ethics, justice, language, and culture, emphasizing their interconnections and situating these studies in relation to the larger world dynamics that have shaped and reconfigured the lived conditions of specific peoples in particular locations, throughout history and in the present.
Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University will figure within an existing network of interdisciplinary and international programs. The cluster of new positions listed here represent our aim to build a faculty committed to pedagogy and scholarship founded on an awareness of the complex layering of languages, values, cultures, and ethnicities constituted through the conditions of cultural interaction, exchange, and conflict from the earliest periods to the current moment.
Position descriptions
Unless otherwise indicated, all positions start August 16, 2008. Salary is commensurate with experience. PhD or equivalent terminal degree required. Review of applications will begin November 15 and continue until the positions are filled.
Global Studies in Arts and Humanities -- Director
Department of French, Classics, and Italian -- Chairperson
Post-Renaissance Comparative Drama -- Assistant Professor
Contemporary Germany (Literature and Culture) in a Global Context -- Assistant Professor
Hindi Language and South Asian Literature and Culture -- Assistant Professor
Caribbean Literature and Culture in a Global Context -- Assistant Professor
African Art History and Visual Culture -- Assistant Professor
Theatre/Acting -- Assistant Professor
Documentary Expression -- Assistant Professor
Position descriptions are also available online at MSU Human Resources.