Funded MA positions at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Please note that we have special enhanced TA-ships that target incoming students with academic and research interests in French Studies combined with Film and/or Arabic (see the end of this message for details).
The University of Cincinnati’s French MA program offers a choice of tracks in French and Francophone Studies, Franco-Arabic Studies, and Pedagogy, and students are eligible to receive two years of support in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
MA students in French at the University of Cincinnati receive excellent preparation in modern and contemporary French and Francophone Studies, working closely with the graduate faculty of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and our affiliates. Our expertise covers:
-Francophone Cultures, Film and Literature of the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and Caribbean
-Contemporary French Cinema and bande dessinée
-French Literature, Culture, Intellectual History and History from the 17th Century to the 21st Century
-Diaspora and postcolonial studies
-Pedagogy, Computer Assisted Language Learning and Second-Language Acquisition (SLA)
Our students may fulfill their second-language requirements through courses offered in the department in Spanish, Arabic, Italian and Portuguese. More information about our faculty and program can be found at: http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/rll.html
Our students benefit from careful mentoring that prepares them for teaching careers or to pursue a PhD in French and Francophone studies. Past graduates of our French program have recently been placed as a tenure-track assistant professor at Milliken University, Wright State University, and as a visiting assistant professor at Villanova University. Others hold positions in international business and university administration and teach language courses at the university level.
Our students receive training in pedagogy and are guided and mentored while teaching in our basic language program. Our graduates may also take advantage of the opportunity to gain teaching experience and increased cultural proficiency through our agreements with l’Université d’Angers and l’Université de Lorraine (site Metz). These agreements enable us to send one outgoing MA graduate to each institution annually to work as lecturers. We also send selected students to France every summer as assistants for our study abroad programs.
The University of Cincinnati has over 42,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students and our graduate students benefit from everything that a large public university has to offer. The city of Cincinnati was founded in 1788 and is the 24th largest metro area in the United States—big enough to have world-class cultural institutions, a thriving art and music scene, and non-stop flights to Paris among many other destinations. At the same time, Cincinnati is small enough to be an easy and affordable place for graduate students to live.
The deadline to apply for admission with a teaching assistantship is January 31, 2016. Graduate assistants receive stipends of $12,000, tuition remission (worth up to $25,842) and an annual insurance subsidy of $1250. They are also eligible to apply for summer teaching opportunities and additional research enhancement funds. Applications for admission without funding are accepted on a rolling basis after the January 31 priority deadline.
A limited number of enhanced teaching assistantships with additional stipends and/or relocation and travel support are available for students with a research interest in film of the French-speaking world and/or the intersections between the French and Arabic languages and cultures within France and across the Mediterranean. Interested students should contact the director of graduate studies: michael.gott@uc.edu
Sincerely,
Michael Gott, PhD
Director of Graduate Studies & Assistant Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures