NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI - ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (Two Positions)
POSITION 1: Faculty Positions - Literature. New York University is establishing a campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and invites applications for one or more faculty positions at any level (assistant, associate, or full professor). We encourage applicants in all fields of literary study, but we are especially interested in candidates whose work adopts comparative approaches to literary traditions (particularly classical) or offers a global approach to the study of Shakespeare. Preferred candidates will have an active agenda of research, publication, and undergraduate teaching (ideally with some experience in the teaching of world literature in translation). For candidates at the assistant professor level, Ph.D. at time of appointment is required. Teaching load: three undergraduate semester-length courses per year, one of which is in the core curriculum. The terms of employment will be competitive compared to U.S. benchmarks and will include housing and educational subsidies for children. Faculty may spend time at NYU in New York and at its other global campuses. The appointment may begin as soon as September 1, 2010 but could be delayed until September 1, 2011.
New York University Abu Dhabi will be a partner campus of New York University, consisting of a highly selective liberal arts college, distinctive graduate programs, and a world-class Institute for advanced research, scholarship, and creative work. NYU Abu Dhabi will recruit faculty of exceptional quality in teaching and in professional accomplishment. It will seek students of demonstrated excellence and remarkable potential from across the globe. It will offer undergraduate and graduate degrees, and extraordinary opportunities for research and for creative work across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. Situated at a new crossroads of the world, it will have the resources and commitment to become a leading center of intellectual pursuit, collaboration, and impact.
NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi will be integrally connected, together forming the foundation of a unique global network university, actively linked as well to NYU's study and research sites on five continents. NYU Abu Dhabi's first class of students will arrive in fall 2010; its research and public programs commenced last fall.
Review of applications will begin immediately, with a final deadline of December 1, 2009 for receipt of applications. Applicants need to submit the following documents in PDF format to be considered: curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, representative publications, and three letters of reference. Please visit our website at http://nyuad.nyu.edu/human.resources/open.positions.html for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail nyuad.humanities@nyu.edu.
NYU Abu Dhabi is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
POSITION TWO: Faculty Positions - History. New York University is establishing a campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and invites applications for one or more faculty positions at any level (assistant, associate or full professor). We encourage applicants with a specialization in one of the following fields: China; the Mediterranean World; and the Indian Ocean world before 1900. Scholars whose work demonstrates a transnational perspective are especially welcomed. Preferred candidates will have an active agenda of research, publication, and undergraduate teaching. For candidates at the assistant professor level, Ph.D. at time of appointment is required. Teaching load: three undergraduate semester-length courses per year, one of which is in the core curriculum. The terms of employment will be competitive compared to U.S. benchmarks and will include housing and educational subsidies for children. Faculty may spend time at NYU in New York and at its other global campuses. The appointment may begin as soon as September 1, 2010 but could be delayed until September 1, 2011.
New York University Abu Dhabi will be a partner campus of New York University, consisting of a highly selective liberal arts college, distinctive graduate programs, and a world-class Institute for advanced research, scholarship, and creative work. NYU Abu Dhabi will recruit faculty of exceptional quality in teaching and in professional accomplishment. It will seek students of demonstrated excellence and remarkable potential from across the globe. It will offer undergraduate and graduate degrees, and extraordinary opportunities for research and for creative work across the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Engineering. Situated at a new crossroads of the world, it will have the resources and commitment to become a leading center of intellectual pursuit, collaboration, and impact.
NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi will be integrally connected, together forming the foundation of a unique global network university, actively linked as well to NYU's study and research sites on five continents. NYU Abu Dhabi's first class of students will arrive in fall 2010; its research and public programs commenced last fall.
Review of applications will begin immediately, with a final deadline of December 1, 2009 for receipt of applications. Applicants need to submit the following documents in PDF format to be considered: curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, representative publications, and three letters of reference. Please visit our website at http://nyuad.nyu.edu/human.resources/open.positions.html for instructions and other information on how to apply. If you have any questions, please e-mail nyuad.humanities@nyu.edu.
NYU Abu Dhabi is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.