Kashua began teaching at the University of Illinois through the Israeli Studies Project, a sponsorship program for Israeli writers and scholars run by Illinois and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago,[6] and remained there as a Visiting Clinical Professor from 2014-2018.[7] He participated in the Creative Writing program's bilingualism workshop at the University of Chicago and is a clinical professor in the Israel Studies program at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana[8].In Summer 2018, Kashua and his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri,[9] for Kashua to enroll in the Ph.D. Program of Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. There, he is also a Hebrew Instructor for the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures.[10]