Assistant Professor of Humanities Data SciencesPosition Description

The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science. The successful candidate will be appointed to one of the eight departments in the Division: Asian Languages and Literature, French and Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies.

The successful candidate for this position, researching and teaching primarily in one or several languages other than English, will be expected to :

- create, analyze, use, present and communicate data, broadly understood, in disciplines of language, literature, and/or culture - explore a variety of forms of data including large historical or contemporary corpora, textual archives, digital media and genres, or online datasets and their uses - engage a range of analytical techniques and methods of analysis - investigate questions and challenges posed by data science and by data, such as the role of bias in algorithms, uncertainty in artificial intelligence, and/or the use of ever-larger datasets in machine translation - engage in an active research agenda

Since this is a cross-disciplinary position, the successful applicant will also be expected to work across departmental and disciplinary boundaries, and contribute to the development of existing cross-disciplinary initiatives (e.g., Translation Studies Hub https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://uwtranslationhub.wixsite.com/uwtranslation__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!j1q2G4mWXDOw6rp2iEPe7TUzmzZM_4XrrCAHUzLWTnPUsqSDTBY_Hm7O2X6NrDVHEQUEKZa2xOL4YA$ , Textual and Digital Studies http://txtds.uw.edu/, Global Literary Studies https://slavic.washington.edu/fields/global-literary-studies) and to new curricula and programs in areas of inquiry such as human and machine translation, computational text analysis, AI and creativity, the future of language learning.

In particular, this position has been created in conjunction with the establishment of a new minor in Data Science intended for Social Science and Humanities students ( http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/single-pages/data-science-minor/). The candidate hired into this position will dedicate 25% of their teaching and service responsibilities to this program, with the remainder determined within the context of the appointing department. The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the minor, including developing and teaching courses in the required Data Skills and Data Studies categories, and serving on the Steering and Curriculum Committees of the Data Science minor.

Candidates should in addition be prepared to take full advantage of the rich array of resources at the UW for research and teaching in data science as well as in the digital humanities, including the https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://simpsoncenter.org/programs/digital-humanities__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!j1q2G4mWXDOw6rp2iEPe7TUzmzZM_4XrrCAHUzLWTnPUsqSDTBY_Hm7O2X6NrDVHEQUEKZZHP6T9lw$Simpson Center for the Humanities https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://simpsoncenter.org/programs/digital-humanities__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!j1q2G4mWXDOw6rp2iEPe7TUzmzZM_4XrrCAHUzLWTnPUsqSDTBY_Hm7O2X6NrDVHEQUEKZZHP6T9lw$, the https://escience.washington.edu/eScience Institute https://escience.washington.edu/, the https://www.lib.washington.edu/openscholarshipOpen Scholarship Commons https://www.lib.washington.edu/openscholarship in the UW Libraries, and the Humanities Data Lab http://humanitiesdatalab.ds.lib.uw.edu/.

The candidate is also expected to actively contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their potential department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in departmental statements and in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/ http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. This position has an anticipated start date of September 2023, and will have a 9-month service period. Qualifications

Applicants must, by the start of the appointment, have a PhD, or foreign equivalent, in a field consistent with an appointment in a department in the Division of the Humanities.

The successful candidate must have a record of innovative and effective teaching and student mentoring; and a record of contribution to departmental or institutional diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Instructions

Priority will be given to applicants who submit the following materials by January 9 at https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=107708:

- A cover letter that describes the candidate’s suitability for this position and explains how the candidate’s experiences, activities, and goals will lead to success in a cross-disciplinary position - CV - Research statement, not to exceed one page, describing present projects and future directions - A representative example of research (such as a chapter, article, or a link to an online project or a digital tool) - A teaching portfolio, which should provide evidence of teaching excellence and may include such items as: example syllabi, lecture videos, website links for courses or student activities, or digital tools created by the candidate - A statement, not to exceed one page, on how their work would contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/ http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/) - Three letters of recommendation

Because applicants are expected to come from a variety of disciplinary orientations, traditional and nontraditional backgrounds, resulting in different professional profiles, applicants are welcomed in any of the above materials to provide details that can help to contextualize their dossier. Such details might include experiences, aspects of training, outreach, teaching or research that are felt to contribute to a distinctive professional profile. Contact Prof. Gina-Anne Levow for questions regarding this position (levow@uw.edu).