33.3935, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Sciences, University of Washington

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Subject: 33.3935, Jobs: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Sciences, University of Washington

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 02:38:22
From: Joyce Parvi [phoneme at uw.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

 
University or Organization: University of Washington 
Department: The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences
Job Location: Washington, USA 
Web Address: https://artsci.washington.edu/academics/humanities
Job Title: Assistant Professor of Humanities Data Sciences
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 


Description:

The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Washington 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, Textual and Digital Studies, 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 Simpson Center for the Humanities,
the eScience Institute, the Open Scholarship Commons in the UW Libraries, and
the Humanities Data Lab.

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/).
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.

Submit cover letter, CV, research statement, research example, teaching
portfolio, DEI statement, three letters of recommendation. Please see UW AHR
website below for details.



Application Deadline: 09-Jan-2023 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-details/?job_id=107708 
Contact Information:
	Prof. Gina-Anne Levow 
	Email: levow at uw.edu 


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