The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track position to fill the Marie Manoogian Chair in Armenian Language & Literature, beginning August 30, 2022. This endowed chair was established to teach courses and create a locus of Armenian linguistic, literary and cultural studies at the University. We seek a dynamic colleague with evidence of scholarly promise and successful teaching experience who covers the broad corpus of Armenian Literature with a view to the intersections of national literatures and global literary trends. The holder of this chair will play a significant role in shaping the program of the Center for Armenian Studies, an endowed center housed in the International Institute.

We encourage candidates with comparative and/or theoretical research interests, who will engage with the cognate fields of Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and/or Turkish/Ottoman studies. The successful candidate will partner with the Armenian language program (offering Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Western Armenian), teach and advise students across a range of genres and historical periods (including Classical Armenian), and devise and implement innovative syllabi/curriculum for courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Native or near-native proficiency in Eastern and Western Armenian as well as a Ph.D. at the time of appointment are required.