Tag: intercultural communication

Cal State Sacramento Job Ad: Intercultural/International Communication

Tenure Track Instructional Faculty – Communication Studies
(Intercultural/International) at California State University, Sacramento

California State University, Sacramento, seeks applications for a specialist in Intercultural Communication for a tenure-track appointment as an assistant professor to start in the Fall 2017 semester.

REQUIRED
Education: Ph.D. in Communication Studies. ABD candidates will be considered. ABD candidates will be required to complete the doctorate by August 2017.

Required Knowledge & Abilities: Evidence of excellence in teaching at the university level. Teach introductory, advanced, and graduate level courses.  Interest in and the ability to conduct scholarly research.  A demonstrated ability to work with a diverse population.

PREFERRED
Preference given to those with teaching and research background in quantitative methods.
Experience: Prior teaching experience at the college or university level and with students from diverse groups.
Teaching/research in developing areas of intercultural/international communication such as globalization, cross-cultural communication, health communication and/or co-cultural dimensions of diverse societies.

Duties include providing curricular leadership in international/intercultural communication and teaching introductory, advanced and graduate level courses. Faculty will be expected to advise
students; engage in scholarly activities; and provide service to the department, campus, and community.

Review of applications will begin October 1, 2016; however, position will remain open until filled.  Applications must be submitted online.  Applications must include the following:
–       A letter indicating the applicant’s interest in the position and the way in which the applicant meets the qualifications
–       Curriculum vitae
–       Evidence of teaching excellence (e.g., syllabi, teaching evaluations)
–       Evidence of creative activity and/or scholarly research
–       Three to five recent professional references, including names and contact information
–       Unofficial transcripts from institutions granting post-secondary degrees to applicant

* Candidates must include the application materials as a single PDF.
* Additional documentation and letters of recommendation may be required
at a later date.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Job Ad: Intercultural Communication

Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor of Intercultural Communication

The Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is filling a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in intercultural communication in any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish. The department has been a pioneer in incorporating intercultural communication into its language pedagogy, enriching both the fields of language pedagogy and intercultural communication.

Teaching responsibilities will include courses in intercultural training, other areas of critical intercultural communication, and language courses in the selected candidate’s modern language at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The candidate will also participate in the supervision of theses and scholarly papers in the department’s interdisciplinary MA program in Intercultural Communication.

UMBC has a strong commitment to increasing faculty diversity. We are especially proud of the diversity of our student body and we seek to attract equally diverse faculty. Successful candidates must be able to work in a multicultural environment and support diversity and inclusion reflecting our student body. Furthermore, the successful candidate should embrace our vision and mission, and be committed to inclusive excellence and diversity. Members of minority groups, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Qualifications
We are searching for a candidate with expertise in any of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian or Spanish. Candidates should have in hand a PhD in intercultural communication or a closely related field, experience in intercultural training, and native or near-native proficiency in at least one of the modern languages above. We welcome applications from applied linguistics, translation and transcultural studies, critical intercultural communication, and other fields that engage with intercultural modern language studies. Employment is contingent upon the candidate’s obtaining and maintaining appropriate visa status, if applicable. For more information about the MLLI department and the INCC program, please consult http://mlli.umbc.edu.

Application Instructions:
Please prepare a writing sample (one or two pages) that communicates a vision for the history, theories, and methodologies of the field as well as your agenda for research, teaching, training, service, and outreach.

Please submit all materials (including a two-page letter of application, CV, writing sample, unofficial graduate transcripts and three letters of reference) via Interfolio (position number 36255) by October 15, 2016. For questions, please contact:

Dr. Edward Larkey, Search Committee Chair (larkey[at]umbc.edu)
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
UMBC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Yea-Wen Chen Profile

ProfilesYea-Wen Chen (M.A. University of North Texas, Ph.D. University of New Mexico) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the Institute for Dialogue and Social Justice at San Diego State University.

Yea-Wen Chen

Between spring 2019 and fall 2020, she served as a Professor of Equity co-facilitating seminars on equity, implicit bias, and microaggressions on her campus. Her research examines how communication—including silence—about cultural identities impacts diversity, inclusion, and social justice across contexts such as identity-based nonprofit organizations. She is the winner of numerous top paper awards at regional, national, and international communication conferences. Dr. Chen has published over 40 works, including peer-reviewed articles in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. She has co-edited Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication (6th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2015), and Postcolonial Turn and Geopolitical Uncertainty: Transnational Critical Intercultural Communication Pedagogy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Key Publications:

Chen, Y.-W., Black, F., Devos, T., Hernandez, R., Jayawardene, S., Reinholz, D. L., & Villodas, F. (2021). Becoming Professors of Equity at San Diego State University: Reflecting on professional seminars on implicit biases and microaggressions. In H. Oliha-Donaldson (Eds.), Confronting critical equity and inclusion incidents on campus: Lessons learned and emerging practices. Routledge.

Chen, Y.-W., & Lawless, B. (2019). Teaching critical moments within neoliberal universities: Exploring critical intercultural communication pedagogy. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, 48(5), 553-573. doi:10.1080/17475759.2019.1683056

Chen, Y.-W., Chalko, K., & Bonilla, M. (2019). When religion meets academia: Millennial Christians becoming cultural Others on a minority-serving campus in the United States. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 12(4), 325-343. doi:10.1080/17513057.2018.1557732

Chen, Y.-W. (2018). “Why don’t you speak (up), Asian/immigrant/woman?”: Rethink silence and voice through family oral history. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 7(2), 29-48. doi:10.1525/dcqr.2018.7.2.29

Chen, Y.-W., & Lawless, B. (2018). “Oh my god! You have become so Americanized”: Paradoxes of adaptation and strategic ambiguity among female immigrant faculty. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 11(1), 1-20. doi:10.1080/17513057.2017.1385825

  *Translation article: Chen, Y.-W., & Lawless, B. (January 11, 2018). Challenging “otherness”: Female immigrant faculty in the U.S. and their struggle to adapt. Communication Currents.

Chen, Y.-W., & Collier, M. J. (2012). Intercultural identity positioning: Interview discourses from two identity-based nonprofit organizations. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 5(1), 43-63. doi:10.1080/17513057.2011.631215

  *Translation article: Chen, Y.-W., & Collier, M. J. (April 1, 2012). Communication about cultural identity differences matters for nonprofits. Communication Currents.

Lancaster University job ad (UK)

Senior Lectureship in Intercultural Communication
Linguistics & English Language
Lancaster University, UK
Closing Date: Friday 12 August 2016
Interview Date: Wednesday 24 August 2016
Reference: A1578

We are seeking a scholar who has a strong international reputation. You will have a PhD, extensive teaching experience (especially at postgraduate level), a portfolio of publications that are recognised for their excellence, and a proven track-record in attracting funding for your research. You will join a large group of internationally renowned linguists that includes specialists in: English Language study, Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Forensic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Literacy Research and Second Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

You will pursue research and publications at a level appropriate for a strong submission to the next Research Excellence Framework and will be expected to supervise BA, MA and PhD students. You will lead the development of new modules and programmes in Intercultural Communication, particularly at postgraduate level. You will contribute to administration at a level commensurate with a Senior Lectureship.

This is an indefinite post beginning 1 January 2017.

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Elena Semino, Head of Department: e.semino[at]lancaster.ac.uk

We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups. Apply online.

CFP Intercultural Communication for Western States Communication Association (Utah)

Call for Papers and Programs
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INTEREST GROUP
WESTERN STATES COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION
2017 Convention – Salt Lake City, Utah
February 18-21, 2017

Conference Theme: Centralizing Marginality, Marginalizing the Center

Reflecting on nascent activity in social and political contexts brings to the fore various tensions: in particular, that of the margin(s) and the center. Multiple and significant strides, as well as setbacks, in society communicate particular rights, groups or populations moving from the margins to the center of a controversy. In those instances, we must inquire if what we observe are efforts to centralize marginality or efforts to marginalize the center. Similarly, for some of us, the experience of being marginalized, living on the margins, or working on/at the margins are familiar. Those experiences likely produce an array of communicative approaches and tactics of survival, regardless of the settings in which we exist.  Alternatively, our positionalities as teachers, scholars or (un/documented) citizens likely have us occupy spaces that both centralize and marginalize us. We may (un)knowingly center particular epistemologies in the classroom and in scholarship, adopt ontologies that carry the potential to shift how we study that which we do, and/or embrace pedagogies that require we rethink how marginality and the center manifest in our classrooms.

The 2017 WSCA conference theme “Centralizing Marginality, Marginalizing the Center” asks participants to think in diverse and innovative ways about the relational natures of margin(ality) and center (centrality). This theme encourages us to consider the ways that centralizing marginality carries the potential to reshape how we think about, study, and teach processes of communication. When marginality is centralized, what foundational theories are we encouraged to reconsider from the position of the margins? Which, if any, approaches to communication call for marginalizing the center in order to bring to light new ways of producing scholarship? Alternatively, we might reflect upon does the center need to be marginalized? If so, in what instances and why? Finally, the conference theme asks us to think of the dialectic of margin/center as the fulcrum of communicative activity and scholarly activity.

The Intercultural Communication Interest Group encourages papers and programs that explore this year’s conference theme, “Centralizing Marginality, Marginalizing the Center.”  Open to different topics relevant to Intercultural Communication, ICIG especially invites submissions from teachers, scholars, and practitioners who examine work within international contexts and topics that challenge Western constructs and performances of culture, identity, gender, queerness, and other identity markers in various environments.  ICIG also supports co-sponsored programs with other interest groups that consider the conference theme.

The deadline for submission is September 1, 2016. Please send competitive papers and program proposals electronically to: Dr. Richie Neil Hao (Columbia College Hollywood), Chair/Program Planner, Intercultural Communication Interest Group. Email: icig.wsca [at] gmail.com

I. COMPETITIVE PAPERS
A. All authors are encouraged to send their papers to the Intercultural Communication Interest Group for competitive selection. Papers should reflect the conference theme and may include research employing any methodology, theoretical developments, critical analysis as well as critiques. Please submit each paper to only one interest group. All papers should be submitted by e-mail attachment as .doc or .pdf file format to the ICIG email account (icig.wsca [at] gmail.com) by September 1, 2016. Your electronic submission should include two separate attachments (see B).

B. Submitted papers should include the following:
Attachment 1: Cover Page
a.     The paper’s title
b.     Names of all authors, affiliation(s), email address(es), phone number(s)
c.     Any audio-visual requests. This information should be included for each author. Equipment availability is extremely limited. See the WSCA policy on Audio-Visual Equipment at Conventions in the Policies and Procedures Manual on the website
Attachment 2: Paper with all author identification removed
a.    A 100-200 word abstract of the paper (with title appearing on this page);
b.    A maximum of 30 pages of text;
c.    No information in the paper that identifies the author(s) beyond that which
appears on the title page.

C. Student/Debut Papers: The Intercultural Communication Interest Group welcomes student and debut papers. If your paper is a student or debut paper please note this on the title page under the title of the paper. In addition, please indicate whether each author is a bachelors, masters, or doctoral student.

II. PROGRAM PROPOSALS
A. Program proposals should focus on a unifying theme relevant to research, theory, or instruction in the area of intercultural communication. Programs may consist of a chair, individual presenters, and a respondent in a format traditionally presented at conferences. However, debates, round table discussions, performance activities, or other unique formats are encouraged. Innovative program proposals, especially those that provide opportunities for interaction among participants and attendees, are encouraged. Programs co-sponsored with other interest groups are also welcome. Programs that relate to and extend the convention theme are encouraged.

Proposals should be submitted as .doc or .pdf file to ICIG email account (icig.wsca [at] gmail.com) by September 1, 2016, and should include:
a. Thematic title of the panel and 150 word abstract
b. Names, addresses, phones, e-mail addresses, and affiliations of all participants
c. Up to 400 word rationale for the panel
d. Title and brief description/abstract of each presentation on the panel
e. Equipment needed for panel (keeping in mind that equipment may be limited)

If you have any questions, please contact to Dr. Richie Neil Hao (Columbia College Hollywood) at rhao [at] columbiacollege.edu.

Oregon State U job ad: Intercultural Communication

Visiting Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication at Oregon State University
EFFECTIVE DATE OF POSITION: 16 September 2016
APPOINTMENT: 1.0 FTE, 9-month, fixed-term
LOCATION: This job is based on-campus at Oregon State University, in Corvallis, Oregon.

The Speech Communication Area of the School of Arts and Communication invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE) Visiting Assistant Professor in Intercultural Communication. Primary areas of interests should include: intercultural communication and qualitative research methods. Secondary areas in support of primary area include: communication theory, international communication, postcolonial studies, language and discourse analysis, conflict management, rhetorical theory. For complete position details go to posting P00269UF at http://oregonstate.edu/jobs/.

RESPONSIBILITIES: 75% Teaching – 3 courses per quarter (nine in the academic year) including introductory as well as upper division and graduate level classes; 25% Research and Scholarship.

QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum Required: ABD in Communication or related field; demonstrated excellence in teaching; record of scholarly promise in a program of research; and a demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

Preferred: PhD in communication with an educational emphasis in intercultural communication; with a secondary area of expertise: qualitative research methods, communication theory, international communication, postcolonial studies, language and discourse analysis, conflict management, rhetorical theory. A demonstrable commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: Apply to posting #P00269UF online at http://jobs.oregonstate.edu. When applying you will be required to attach the following electronic documents:
1) A resume/CV
2) A cover letter indicating how your qualifications and experience have prepared you for this position.
3) A professional statement that includes your philosophy of teaching and research/scholarship.
4) Evidence of teaching excellence such as teaching evaluation summaries for lower & upper division courses and graduate courses, if available. (Upload as Portfolio)

You will also be required to submit the names of at least three professional references, their e-mail addresses and telephone numbers as part of the application process.

For additional information please contact Loril Chandler.

OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.

APPLICATION DUE DATE: For full consideration submit a complete file by May 22, 2016.

Jane Jackson Profile

ProfilesJane Jackson (PhD, OISE/University of Toronto) is professor in the English Department at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in intercultural communication.

Jane JacksonShe also supervises postgraduate research in language and intercultural communication; identity; student and academic mobility; international and intercultural education; intercultural competence; autonomous learning; English as a second language education; informal language learning; and intercultural transitions.

Professor Jackson has teaching and research experience in many countries/regions: Canada, the USA, the Sultanate of Oman, Egypt, Mainland China, the U.K., and Hong Kong SAR. Recognized for innovative teaching practices, she is the recipient of CUHK’s 2013 Education Award and a member of the University’s Teaching Excellence Ambassador Program, which promotes effective teaching and learning.

Her research interests include intercultural communication/education, language and identity, multiculturalism/multilingualism, and education abroad. With the support of competitive research grants, Professor Jackson has been investigating the ‘whole person development’ of international exchange students from Greater China as well as the language and intercultural learning of incoming international students in Asia. Teaching Development grants have enabled her to design and offer research-inspired blended and fully online courses that aim to promote intercultural competence and optimize education abroad learning. Professor Jackson is a frequent speaker at international conferences that center on intercultural learning, teaching, and research. She has published widely in academic journals and has many chapters in edited collections. Recent books include Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication (Routledge, 2014), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (Routledge, 2012) (editor), Intercultural Journeys: From Study to Residence Abroad (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010), and Language, Identity, and Study Abroad: Sociocultural Perspectives (Equinox, 2008).

She is an elected fellow and Board member of the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR) and a member of the International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC). She also serves on the editorial board of the International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication (Wiley-Blackwell) and is a member of the advisory board of the Language and Intercultural Communication journal. Professor Jackson is an Editorial Board member for Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education and the International Journal of Bias, Identity and Diversities in Education.

See her webpage for further information and contact details.

Work for CID:
Jane Jackson wrote KC78: Language and Intercultural Communication.

Distinguished Scholarship Awards, IICD of NCA

Call for Nominations
2016 Distinguished Scholarship Awards
International and Intercultural Communication Division
National Communication Association

Nominations are invited for the 2016 International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) Distinguished Scholarship Awards for work copyrighted in 2015. Up to five awards will be given in the following categories:
· Best Book (single-authored or co-authored)
· Best Book (edited or co-edited)
· Best Article (or Book Chapter)
· Best Dissertation and/or Master’s Thesis

Submit all nomination materials via electronic submission to cheny3@ohio.edu and must include the following:
(a) A nomination letter outlining justification for the award
(b) For Article or Book Chapter submissions, send PDF copies only
(c) For Book submissions, send three (3) copies of the complete work (You may ask your publishers to send copies directly as part of their promo)
(d) For Dissertation or Thesis submissions, mail/send three (3) CD-ROM, flash drive, or PDF copies of the complete work.

Mail hard copies (for c & d) to the following address:
Dr. Yea-Wen Chen
School of Communication Studies
Ohio University
Schoonover Center 407
Athens, OH 45701-2979
The United States

Awards will be presented at the International and Intercultural Communication Division (IICD) Business Meeting in Philadelphia at the 2016 NCA Convention. Recipients of the awards will be notified by September 1, 2016 and are expected to be present for the award presentations. Self, peer, or advisor nominations are welcomed. The awards committee will not accept more than one submission of the same (co-)author, whether they are nominated or self-nominated, regardless of category. Works must have been copyrighted during the 2015 calendar year.

Nomination packets must be received by April 25, 2016.

8th Conference on Intercultural Communication (Wuhan, China)

Professor SHAN Bo graciously invited me to participate in the 8th Conference on Intercultural Communication, held at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, November 20-22, 2015. Since I was unable to get to China this fall, I videotaped my paper, and sent that instead. The title is “The Influence of National Character Studies on Intercultural Communication: Moving Beyond Past Assumptions to Current Complexities.” For others who did not get to Wuhan, I’ve uploaded it to the Center for Intercultural Dialogue’s YouTube site.

My thanks to Xinya Liu, the Conference secretary, for all of her help with logistics, to Dave Adams at Royal Roads University for recording the video, and to Jingya Yang, one of my graduate students while I was at Royal Roads University, for uploading the video to a site accessible within China.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, Director
Center for Intercultural Dialogue

University of Warwick job ad: Center for Applied Linguistics

Professor of Applied Linguistics/English Language & Linguistics
University of Warwick – Centre for Applied Linguistics
Closes: 3rd January 2016

You will be an outstanding academic with significant international experience working in the broad field of applied linguistics, including (but not limited to) areas such as TESOL, English Language & Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Language Learning and Assessment. You will have an excellent record of recent, high quality publications in top-rated journals and successful experience of applying for research funding. You will be committed to the applied relevance of your research. You will lead the development and implementation of our research strategy, including REF planning, and undertake significant senior management responsibilities as well as some teaching and research supervision.

Informal enquiries: email Professor Helen Spencer-Oatey, Director of the Centre for Applied Linguistics.