PU- Orality and literature in African languages
Job number : 15PU270
⚠ Application period: February 22 to March 25, 2024 (4pm Paris time)
Teaching
The University Professor position focuses on orality.
The recruited Professor will have in-depth knowledge of orality in its disciplinary, methodological and theoretical dimensions.
The recruited Professor will be involved in cross-disciplinary teaching on orality and literature at Licence level, and in cross-disciplinary seminars at Master level, particularly in the Oralité master's program. He/she will take part in the AOI department's cross-disciplinary literature and orality courses. He/She will take charge of literature courses in an African language.
He/She will be in charge of the organization and development of Bachelor's and Master's orality courses.
He/She will pay particular attention to the supervision of Master's students and PhD students.
The recruited Professor.e will have in-depth skills in one or two African languages taught at Inalco.
The language of instruction is French.
The candidate will also be expected to contribute to the development of pedagogical tools, possibly digital. Competence in ICTE is desirable.
He/she will be likely to teach in English.
The candidate will be expected to invest in the life and operation of the department, reflection on the evolution of training, as well as student supervision.
Teaching department:
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
URL of the department: http://www.inalco.fr/departement/afrique-ocean-indien
Research
The holder of the Chair of "Orality and African Literature" will lead a project organized around the development of the discipline orality. He/she will participate in the work of the research structures created at INALCO (Groupe de recherche des oralités du monde) and its publications, notably the Revue des oralités du monde. He/she will ensure the development of national and international cooperations.
Laboratories of attachment
Depending on his/her specialties, the recruited teacher-researcher will be able to join an Inalco team of his/her choice, including: PLIDAM, LACNAD, CERLOM, LACITO and LLACAN.
The recruited PU will be able to join the host team EA 4514 PLIDAM currently organized around 6 axes, among which Axis 4 is dedicated, among others, to research in literature and orality. Our team makes a decisive contribution to the development of research into orality from a theoretical, methodological and comparative perspective, including the complex articulations between orality and scripturality. The Revue des oralités du monde plays a part in structuring work in orality.
The PLIDAM laboratory is building cooperative projects with numerous French and foreign research teams, particularly in the pedagogy of foreign languages, literatures and cultures. In this context, research on orality in an African context and from a cross-disciplinary perspective is of great interest to our laboratory.
The PU recruited will be invited to contribute to research carried out within Axis 4, and to become involved in the laboratory's collective work.
EA4314 PLIDAM
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director's name: Thomas SZENDE
Laboratory director's e-mail: thomas.szende@inalco.fr
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
The candidate's work will focus on African oralities. They will require the processing of sources in at least one of the languages taught in the Africa and Indian Ocean department. They may fall within one of the themes of the current contract: 1. publishing, translating, teaching world literature and oral traditions; 2. comparative history of poetics; 3. migrant words, migrant writings; 4. audiovisual creation and world societies. Audiovisual creation and world societies.
CERLOM (EA 4124)
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Stéphane Sawas
E-mail from laboratory director: stephane.sawas@gmail.com
The candidate will be able to participate in the Verba Africana program led by our team, which aims at "video/web documentation, research and learning of oral African languages and literatures". The recruited PU's work could also be part of the "Poetics of Exile. Continuités et renouvellements des genres, des acteurs et des lieux littéraires", "Nouvelles oralités et nouvelles littéracies - Approche interdisciplinaire" and "Le Musée au Maghreb et Diaspora: arts visuels, culture matérielle et immatérielle".
LACNAD
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: K. NAIT ZERAD
E-mail of laboratory director: knz@tifeswin.com, kamal.naitzerad@inalco.fr
The person recruited will be able to join the UMR LACITO (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale) (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-Inalco). Oral traditions occupy an important place in the laboratory's activities, so the study of oral literature would fit in harmoniously with the laboratory's research themes. What unites the laboratory is the importance given to field research. The laboratory gives priority to supporting missions devoted to research carried out in the field.
A teacher-researcher attached to LACITO is expected to participate in the laboratory's activities and to be a driving force behind collective projects.
LACITO : UMR 7107 du CNRS
Location : 7, rue Guy Môquet (bât. D) - 94801 Villejuif
Laboratory director's name: Alexis Michaud
Laboratory director's phone number: 07 84 43 20 80
Laboratory director's e-mail: alexis.michaud@cnrs.fr
The LLACAN is a CNRS-INALCO joint research unit dedicated to the analysis, documentation and comparison of African languages and literatures, the vast majority of which have a purely oral tradition. LLACAN counts les Cahiers de Littérature Orale among its many publications.
We are looking to strengthen our know-how in the field of harvesting, processing and perennial archiving of literary and linguistic data from language communities with no written tradition. We are also particularly interested in multidisciplinary approaches to oral traditions, such as oral history, which compares historical claims derived from narratives (literary or otherwise), with findings from linguistics or archaeology.
LLACAN UMR 8135 du CNRS
"Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique"
Location: 7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif
Name of laboratory director: Mark VAN DE VELDE
E-mail from laboratory director: llacan.direction@cnrs.fr
Hiring procedures
The position for which you are applying 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 access authorization has been issued by the head of establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree n°84-431 of June 6, 1984.
Administrative documents in a foreign language in the application file must be translated into French.
Réf :
-arrêté du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des maîtres de conférences
-arrêté du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des professeurs des universités.
Applications must be submitted on galaxie.fr (applications received by email or post will not be considered for the campaign).