MCF Bengali language and literature (Odyssey: 260845; Section CNU 15)

Application to be submitted on Odyssée:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_recrut…

Teaching

The candidate will have a perfect command of the Bengali language and an excellent knowledge of the society and culture of the Bengali-speaking area (Bangladesh and Indian Bengal, ideally taking into account various historical periods, with a priority for the contemporary period, 20th and 21st centuries). He or she will teach courses aimed primarily at undergraduates (e.g. Bengali grammar, translation from and into Bengali, reading of press, essays and literature). He or she will preferably already have teaching experience, and must be able to adapt to a diverse student body.

The candidate will be responsible for the Bengali section, both administratively and pedagogically, and will lead a team with the repetiteur and lecturers.

A literary specialization will be particularly appreciated. Depending on the candidate's area of specialization, he or she may be asked to spend part of his or her time teaching cross-disciplinary courses within the department, or across the school at bachelor's and master's levels. 
The candidate will also be expected to contribute to the development of teaching tools, particularly digital ones, as part of the establishment's hybrid or distance learning offer. Competence in ICTE and reflection on digital pedagogy are desirable.
He or she is likely to be involved in the pedagogical and methodological support of students and to provide teaching in English.

Teaching department: Indian, South Asian and Tibetan Studies
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
Department director: Shahzaman Haque and Harit Joshi
Department director's e-mail: View e-mail  and View e-mail  
Department URL: www.inalco.fr/asie-du-sud-himalaya 

Research

The recruited MCF will join one of Inalco's research teams according to his/her research field. A literary orientation, preferably on the contemporary period (20th and 21st centuries, Bangladesh and Indian Bengal) will be preferred.

The candidate will consider the convergence between his/her work and Inalco's intellectual and scientific identity, as embodied in the collective projects carried out by the establishment and its research units. Depending on their specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join the research unit of their choice from among Inalco's own teams and UMRs under the (co)supervision of Inalco, in particular: CERLOM or CESSMA.

Laboratoire de rattachement : CERLOM (Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et les Oralités du Monde)
In this case, the candidate's work will focus on Bengali literature and culture, and will require the processing of Bengali-language sources.
They may fall within one or more of the research themes of the current five-year plan:
1/ Editing, translating and teaching the world's literatures and oralities
2/ Comparative history of poetics
3/ Migrant words, migrant writings
4/ Audiovisual creation and world societies

Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: S. Sawas
Email from laboratory director: View e-mail  
URL of laboratory: www.inalco.fr/cerlom 

Laboratory of affiliation: CESSMA (Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques)

The recruited colleague will be able to join UMR 245 CESSMA, an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on the analysis of historical and spatial configurations of development and globalization dynamics. Depending on his/her research, the MCF will be expected to contribute to the activities of one of the unit's 4 thematic axes:

1- Appropriation, Contestation, Resistance: Spatiality, Domination, Violence
2- Cities: Power, Practices, and Temporalities
3- Marchandisation et émancipation: from the social question to the environmental question
4- Societies and politics: interactions, temporalities, knowledge

He/she will also be expected to play an active role in leading the laboratory's Asian studies cluster, which brings together a significant proportion of its tenured and doctoral students. He/she will also be involved in representing CESSMA externally, notably on the GIS Asie scientific council. The colleague will help set up scientific projects involving the laboratory in relation with national and international partners.

Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory management team: Sylvie Fanchette (IRD), Margot Herman (Inalco), Nathalie Fau (UPC)
Laboratory management e-mail: View e-mail  
Laboratory URL: https://www.cessma.org/

The position you are applying for is likely to be located in a "restricted area" within the meaning of Article R. 413-5-1 of the French Penal Code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment can only take place after authorization for access has been issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree n°84-431 of June 6 1984.

Reference: Decree of 6 February 2023 governing the general procedures for transfers, secondments and competitive recruitment of Maîtres de conférences, Professors of Universities, and Junior Professor Chairs.