Tenure-track position in Transpacific AI/Technologies Studies

Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University; Columbus (OH); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures invites scholars who can contribute to the university’s AI Fluency Initiative (teaching) and the Arts and Humanities AI Institute (research) with expertise in East Asian Studies broadly defined.

The successful candidate will examine global flows of AI and related technologies and their impact on society, the humanities, and the arts, with special attention to the Transpacific region.

Description du poste

In keeping with the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures' commitment to interdisciplinarity, we are especially interested in scholars who can contribute to the university’s AI Fluency Initiative(teaching) and theArts and Humanities AI Institute (research) with expertise in East Asian Studies broadly defined. The successful candidate will examine the global flows of AI and related technologies in terms of their impact on society, the humanities, and the arts with special attention to the Transpacific region (East Asia, South East Asia, the Americas). Given that East Asia has fast become a hub and driver of open-source innovation in the AI sector, the successful candidate will be able to train graduate students and help build the toolkit of tomorrow’s alumni to include tech fluency, global media literacy, and intercultural competence in a Transpacific context.

The successful candidate will enhance and amplify the department’s strengths in media studies, digital humanities, performing arts, translation, and/or language pedagogy/linguistics. They will conduct qualitative research at the cutting edge of the fields of East Asian Studies in Transpacific contexts and of technology studies with disciplinary expertise in one or more of the following fields: East Asian Languages and Literatures, Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Communications, History of Science, Science/Technology/Society, Human-Inspired AI, Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures and/or related fields. They will offer undergraduate courses that combine hands-on experiential learning with critical reflection, collaborative teamwork, and leadership development to prepare undergraduate students for the job market of the future. They will offer graduate courses that critically examine the transformative impact of AI and related technologies on social communities, cultural practices, media, and forms of communication in the Transpacific region.