Teaching Fellow in Visual Studies and French

**Teaching Fellow in Visual Studies and French Language** **(**Job Number**:24001654**)**

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Grade 7: - £37,099 per annum

Fixed Term - Full Time

**Contract Duration**: 12 months

**Contracted Hours per Week**: 35

**Closing Date**: 22-Sep-2024, 5:59:00 PM

**Disclosure and Barring Service Requirement**: Not Applicable.

**Working arra**ngements**:35 hours per week, Monday-Friday, with some attendance at weekend events, e.g. open days

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**The Role and Department**

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to a fixed-term Teaching Fellowship to join the team delivering its innovative BA in Visual Arts and Film and MA in Visual Culture. Both these programmes are dedicated to interdisciplinarity and a global perspective, sharing a commitment to decolonializing approaches which are also being taken up elsewhere in the School. The successful applicant will also be required to contribute to the language curriculum in French Studies, and should have the ability to deliver classes focusing on written and oral language production in the target language.

The School is one of the largest and most successful Schools of Modern Languages and Cultures in the UK. Over the past two decades, the School has also developed a distinctive profile in the transnational and interdisciplinary study of visual culture, broadly conceived, bringing together visual culture research in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Japanese and Russian Studies.
- The School’s expertise in visual culture encompasses painting, film, photography, performance studies, urban studies, and book history, and has led to the establishment of an innovative BA programme in Visual Arts and Film as well as an MA in Visual Culture. Research activity extends from the medieval period to the present and embraces a range of theoretical and methodological orientations. The study of visual culture intersects in exciting ways with other areas of research activity in the School: medieval and early modern studies, the relationship between the sciences and the humanities, gender and sexuality studies, critical and cultural theory, the transnational study of literature, and translation. Indeed, translation — understood in its broad sense of transmission, interpretation and sharing of languages, ideas and histories — underpins the School’s collective practices, including research into the visual. The School’s forward-thinking research agenda was highlighted in its major conference ‘Our Uncommon Ground’, held in Durham in 2018, and a further conference ‘Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures’ took place in April 2023. These conferences brought together speakers from across the world to articulate and embrace the values of a discipline equipped to study cultures and their interactions in historical perspective. Indicative of the School’s ethos and commitment to the interdisciplinary study of visual culture was the invitation of Mieke Bal to give the keynote lecture at the 2023 conference and present a screening of her film _About Time_.
- As part of its commitment to local regeneration through internationalisation, the School is engaged in collaborative activities with The Auckland Project around the Spanish Art in County Durham initiative and the Zurbarân Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art. Colleagues have also worked extensively with local cultural organisations, including the Bowes Museum, No More Nowt, and New Writing North. At national level, the School initiated and leads Durham University’s institutional partnership with the BFI, which delivers numerous benefits to staff and students alike.
- The School provides the leadership of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, a centre that collaborates regularly with the other centres and institutes in which School st