The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track/early tenure position at the Assistant or early Associate Professor level in Tamil humanities. Preference will be given to applicants engaged in developing innovative conceptual frameworks for the humanities and able to nurture students to think cross-temporally and transregionally. Areas of potential interest include: trans-cultural and cross-linguistic intellectual histories; the academic study of religion in relation to South India, Sri Lanka, and their connected spaces; humanistic studies of migration and mobility; and minoritized histories. Research-level expertise in literary Tamil is required, ideally supplemented by substantial skills in one or more trans-regional languages related to Tamil cultural spaces (whether cosmopolitan, e.g. Sanskrit, Pali, or Arabic, or another regional vernacular language, e.g. Sinhala, Telugu, Kannada, or Malayalam). Substantial expertise in pre-19th-century research materials is very strongly preferred. Candidates will be expected to offer both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in South Asian humanities generally and in their specific area of expertise, as well as to read primary-language texts with graduate and advanced undergraduate students as needed.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. in a relevant field in the humanities by June 2025. All applicants must submit a CV, research statement, teaching statement, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation by November 1, 2024 to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28146/. All application materials must be in English.
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Pay range: $79,400 - $180,000. Actual salary offers in the College of Arts and Sciences will be based on education, experience, discipline, and relevant skills.
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