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The European Society for the Study of English
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The University of Klagenfurt (Austria) is pleased to announce the open position of a Professor of English Literature at the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education.
Details in the attached call.
The University of Salzburg invites applications for a tenured full professorship in English Literature and Culture. The position will become available in the Department of English and American Studies (Faculty of Arts and Humanities) as of 1 October 2025.
University assistants with doctorate
The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University announces the position of a full-time postdoctoral researcher within the ERC-funded project ‘Ways of Imagining in Children’s Lives with Information Texts’ (WONDRE) led by Dr. Anezka Kuzmicova.
Job description:
We require:
We offer:
The written application must contain:
Candidates can send their applications by 29 April 2024 to the email address kariera@fsv.cuni.cz, marked as “Postdoc ERC WONDRE”.
For further information, please visit the initial project website and fact sheet. The PI can be contacted at anezka.kuzmicova@fsv.cuni.cz. This advert can also be found on Euraxess.
Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism / Smetanovo nabrezi 6, 110 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic, info@fsv.cuni.cz, tel: +420 222 112 111
www.fsv.cuni.cz
By responding to this announcement, you consent to the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, with its registered office at Smetanovo nábřeží 6, Prague 1, Postal Code 110 01, processing your personal data for the purpose of job placement. The processing of personal data is governed by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of individuals regarding the processing of personal data and the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) and Act No. 110 / 2019 Sb. on the processing of personal data.
Closing date 22 April 2024
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position from 2 September 2024 to develop the research project WISE (Women Poets Inspired by the Sciences since the Romantic Era), funded by the University of Lille’s “Initiative d’Excellence”. You will find descriptions of the position and of the project at the bottom of this message.
Contact for further information,
Sophie Musitelli,
Associate Professor in English Literature
Université de Lille, France Honorary Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France
sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr
The successful candidate will be appointed full-time for twelve months, renewable once, and will be affiliated to the CÉCILLE research centre (https://cecille.univ-lille.fr/).
The closing date for applications is 22 April 2024.
Candidates selected for interviews who do not reside in France may request online interviews. We anticipate that interviews will take place between 10 and 18 June 2024.
Please submit
All documents must be sent in one PDF to the following addresses:
sophie.musitelli@univ-lille.fr and
bruno.legrand@univ-lille.fr
Required Qualifications: A PhD in English Studies
Required Skills:
Description of the Project:
WISE explores the contact areas between poetic writing and scientific discourse through the perspectives of women, who were long deprived of a formal scientific education. It focuses on the intensely imaginative and creative engagement British women poets have had with the objects, methods and languages of the sciences, and with their philosophical and political implications. It ranges from late 18th-century poetesses to contemporary voices that perpetuate the questionings opened during the Romantic Era, an age of political, scientific and aesthetic revolutions when disciplinary boundaries were redrawn. The project takes Britain as its epicenter, but also aims to draw a series of comparisons with women poets from other anglophone countries, in order to examine the ways in which the aesthetic possibilities awakened by these revolutions rippled across the English-speaking world through complex filiations. It will develop along four lines: (1) the relationship to scientific authority and power, (2) the imagination of the gendered body in a creative and often subversive dialogue with the life sciences, (3) the material practices and technologies available to women, and (4) writing in the Anthropocene.
The successful applicant will be expected to work in collaboration with the project coordinator on the following aspects of the project:
Senior lecturer position in ‘Literatures in English – 19th/20th centuries. Literature and health humanities / literature and environmental humanities’ at Université Paris Cité/ English Department/ LARCA (Research Laboratory on Anglophone Cultures).
Deadline for application: March 06th, 4pm (CET).
Job description can be found at https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/FIDIS/0755976N/FOPC_0755976N_415.pdf
Applications must be uploaded on the Galaxie platform: https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_postes_GALAXIE.htm.
Applicants may contact Prof. Jean-Christian Vinel, co-head of LARCA research unit, for any question regarding the application procedure: jean.christian.vinel@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%)
Faculty of Humanities, English Department
Application deadline: 15.03.2024
The English Department of the University of Tübingen, Germany, invites applications for a Postdoc Position (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, full time)
The position is expected to be filled as of 01.10.2024 for a fixed period of 4 years. The teaching load is 4 hours per week.
The successful candidate is a literary scholar with a doctoral degree in English literature, preferably with a specialization in Early Modern English literature (1500-1700). Fields of expertise should include digital humanities methods, poetics/aesthetics, and/or religion and literature. The postdoc is expected to have teaching experience in English literature, to participate in the research activities of the chair, in particular in those research projects that are part of the Collaborative Research Centre “Different Aesthetics” and the Research Unit “De/Sacralization of Texts”, and pursue a research project of their own (second book or Habilitation). The successful candidate will also take on organizational and administrative tasks.
The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. We invite qualified women to apply. The University of Tübingen welcomes applications from outside Germany. Applications from equally qualified candidates with disabilities will be given preference. Applications, including a full curriculum vitae, list of publications, list of courses taught, concise de scription of the envisaged research project and the names and email addresses of at least two references, should be sent, preferably as one PDF document, by 15 March 2024, via e-mail, to: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer, m.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de.
Faculty Position: Intensive English Program Instructor
LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Position Summary: LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania invites applications for a full-time teaching position in the Prerequisite Intensive Module in English (PRIME), the university’s Intensive English Program. The position involves teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses in PRIME, including Introduction to University Writing; Listening, Note-taking, and Discussion; and Academic Reading and Vocabulary.
The purpose of PRIME is to help students improve their academic English language skills and to prepare them for B.A.-level studies at LCC International University. Incoming PRIME students are Intermediate or Upper Intermediate level (B1 or B2). Class sizes range from 15-19 students.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities may include:
Qualifications:
The University: LCC International University is a fully-accredited liberal arts university located in the port city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Instruction is in English, and the campus is residential. Our 650 students from divergent faith backgrounds come from over 60 countries for an education modeled on the North American liberal arts college with a Christian worldview.
Application and Appointment: To apply, complete the LCC application. The application will require submission of your CV. Questions about the position or the department should be directed to Gretchen Ketner, PRIME Program Director, at gketner@lcc.lt.
We Offer:
Faculty Position: Academic Composition Instructor
LCC International University, Klaipėda, Lithuania
Position Summary: LCC International University invites applications for the position of a full-time composition instructor to begin in the Spring semester 2024 (January 4) or Fall semester 2024 (August 12). The position includes teaching university freshman composition courses, and may also include research and advising thesis students.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
The University: LCC International University is a fully-accredited liberal arts university located in the port city of Klaipeda, Lithuania. Instruction is in English, and the campus is residential. Our 650 students from divergent faith backgrounds come from over 60 countries for an education modeled on the North American liberal arts college with a Christian worldview.
The Department: The English Department offers the following degree program: BA in English Language and Literature. The department also houses the PRIME program – an intensive English program for pre-university students, Because of the international nature of the student body, there is especially ample opportunity for research in the areas of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, writing instruction, and langauge acquisition.
Application and Appointment: To apply, complete the LCC application. The application will require submission of your CV. Questions about the position or the department should be directed to the department chair, Dr. Robin Gingerich, at rgingerich@lcc.lt.
In addition to a CV and cover letter, qualified applicants will be asked to submit an application form, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, and contact information of three professional references.
We Offer:
The University of Vienna is currently advertising for a 15-month postdoctoral position in the ERC/FWF-funded project “Poetry Off the Page: Literary History and the Spoken Word, 1965-2020“, to begin asap.
With over 3000 active students, the University of Vienna’s Department of English and American Studies is one of the largest in Europe. It is situated on a green, car-free campus, not far from the U2 underground line and about a 15-minute walk from the city centre. In the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Arts & Humanities at Vienna University were ranked in 38th position.
The city of Vienna is culturally vibrant while still affordable, with a sizable international community and a fantastic public transport system. In Mercer’s quality of living city ranking, Vienna was ranked no. 1 – of over 200 cities worldwide – for 10 consecutive years.
We are looking for someone with
For more details, please visit https://poetryoffthepage.net/ > Jobs.
Deadline: 05 October.
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391 “Andere Ästhetik” (“Different Aesthetics”) is a research network funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which aims to arrive, by means of our interdisciplinary research programme, at a revised evaluation of the contribution made by pre-modern aesthetic acts and artefacts within the field of aesthetic research.
The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391, research project no. C05 “The Aesthetics of Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature” (https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/160798), invites applications for a
PhD Student Position / Doctoral Candidate / Research Assistant (m/f/d, 65%, E13 TV-L)
The position is available from 1 January 2024 (or earlier) and limited to 30 June 2027.
Further details in the document below
Duration: from 2023/10/01 to 2024/09/30
Annual gross salary: € 33,600
Application deadline: 9 June 2023
Host institution: IMAGER (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)
This postdoctoral project is designed as an interdisciplinary endeavour that seeks to combine literary and social science (history, sociology) perspectives. It aims to study how a very peculiar experience—that of extreme violence—is translated into discourses that condition both their intelligibility and their very unintelligibility. A starting point is that the Holocaust has durably altered the discursive modes whereby such testimonies may be expressed. Hence the need to explore the problematic conditions that allow such discourse to emerge by resorting to a multilingual, interdisciplinary perspective—as such testimonies after 1945 are indeed characterised by the multiple languages and disciplines to which they pertain.
Contact: Daniel Meyer daniel.meyer@u-pec.fr
See details: https://imager.u-pec.fr/activites/activites-transversales-1
The University of Innsbruck invites applications for the position of
University Professor of English Linguistics
at the Department of English at the Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies.
In accordance with § 98 of the Austrian Universities’ Act (Universitätsgesetz – UG) this position is based on a civil-law employment contract with the University according to the Salaried Employees Act (Angestelltengesetz). The contract is for a permanent full-time position.
Continue reading “Vacant Academic Position: University Professor of English Linguistics at The University of Innsbruck”Details here: https://abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=667&key=&o=A_RJ&rspvt=2cstypo9quskcg04gwoowow0wc8gcgw
Call for Applicants
We offer a 3-year PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Lille, France (Research Lab STL: Savoirs, Textes, Langage) on the topic of metaphor and neologisms. This position is funded by the French Research institution ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) within the framework of a research project entitled “Words Fail Me”: Naming the Unnamable (project acronym: PERINAT). PERINAT (https://stl.univ-lille.fr/recherche/contrats-et-projets-de-recherche/en-cours/anr-perinat) is a collaborative project involving three Universities (Birmingham, Lille, Naples) and it focuses on the discourse surrounding perinatal loss. Through the lens of cognitive linguistics and discourse analysis, the PERINAT research team will be observing the metaphors and neologisms used in the narrative of bereaved parents. The project is based on interviews with parents in France and Dutch-speaking Belgium. The PhD candidate will be responsible for the corpus of interviews in Dutch.
Continue reading “Vacant Academic Position: 3-year fully funded PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Lille, France”5-year lecturer (postdoc) position in English Linguistics (teaching and research) at the University of Salzburg, Austria (GZ A 0235/1-2022)
The Department of English and American Studies at the University of Salzburg intends to appoint a postdoctoral lecturer (teaching and research) in English Linguistics with a specialization in (Variationist) Sociolinguistics.
Duties will include: Independent research in English Linguistics; contributions to departmental administration and grant writing in the area of English Linguistics; independent teaching in English Linguistics (4 hours per week), especially in (Variationist) Sociolinguistics
Person specification – essential: Doctorate/PhD in (English) Linguistics; record of publication/research in (Variationist) Sociolinguistics; experience in the acquisition of external or internal project funding; good record of teaching in the core areas of English Linguistics, particularly Sociolinguistics; excellent English proficiency
Person specification – desirable:
Experience abroad; experience and interest in Educational Linguistics (in the widest sense), particularly regarding diversity, inclusion, gender, interculturality and multilingualism; evidence of the ability to successfully engage in collaborative work as part of a team; reliability and commitment
Further details:
For more information, please contact Erik Schleef at erik.schleef@sbg.ac.at.
Closing date: 7 December 2022
Unfortunately, the University of Salzburg does not pay for interview-related travel and accommodation; however, an online interview may be arranged.
Please quote reference code GZ A 0235/1-2022 when applying and send your application to bewerbung@sbg.ac.at. Please include a cover letter, your CV, BA and MA certificates, a writing sample and name and address of two academics who may be contacted for letters of recommendation.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Faculty of Languages and Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies, is looking for a four-year full-time PhD researcher in the field of literary studies as part of the FWO funded research project “Broadcast Biographies. Innovations in Genre and Medium (1945-2020)”.
1. Project
This project is situated at the intersection of life writing, literary radio studies and cultural memory studies. It examines the literary radio biography in Britain and (West-)Germany in the period 1945-2020 along three complementary lines: its production and reception history, its genre and media conventions and its cultural memory function. Despite the rich history of biographical writing on and for radio, little research exists on the radio biography as genre, let alone on its role as a potential catalyst for genre and media innovation. Neither the vast scholarship on life writing nor the field of radio studies have paid systematic attention to biographies created specifically for the radio. Still, as this project aims to show, the radio biography gives us a unique insight in the ongoing mediation of life narratives and the history of radio itself. By writing lives for the radio, literary authors such as Alfred Andersch, Martin Esslin, Gerhard Rühm, Angela Carter and Tom Stoppard also chronicle the life of radio itself, reflecting on the possibilities and limits of both genre and medium.
In this project, we mainly focus on productions by (post)modernist and neo-avant-garde authors. We aim to study the genre and function of the broadcast biography, including its role in the transnational exchange between the two central national broadcasting cultures.
2. Position description
We offer a four-year full-time PhD position (subject to annual positive evaluation). The successful candidate will carry out the project as a doctoral researcher in close collaboration with the two supervisors at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC) at VUB. The candidate will write a doctoral dissertation on the subject of the literary radio biography, carry out archival work on selected authors and productions (in the UK and Germany), (co-)publish the results of the research in academic articles and books, present at national and international conferences and co-host scientific meetings. The candidate will complete the doctoral training programme of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at VUB and is expected to defend their doctoral dissertation in 2026. Please be aware that the position requires you to be present in the department on a regular basis (3 days per week).
3. Profile
4. Offer
5. Application procedure
Applications should include (in one PDF file):
Also include (in a separate PDF file) a writing sample (e.g. your MA thesis, a research paper or academic article). Clearly mention your name on your writing sample.
Please send your application by e-mail to both supervisors, Prof. dr. Inge Arteel (Inge.Arteel@vub.be) and Prof. dr. Birgit Van Puymbroeck (birgit.van.puymbroeck@vub.be). The deadline is 16 August 2022 (midnight, CET). Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in the week of 29 August 2022 on the Humanities Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel or online.
If you have any questions, please contact Inge.Arteel@vub.be or birgit.van.puymbroeck@vub.be
The FB06 of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germersheim Campus) is seeking a Lecturer with a specified function, part-time (75%), for our faculty’s British Studies (Anglistik) programme. We are looking for a lecturer who is a native speaker of English, with a focus on foreign language learning, translation and cultural studies (permanent position, from 01.10.2022). The deadline for applications is 10th July 2022. Details of the position and how to apply can be found here:
https://stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/HPv3.Jobs/jgu/stellenangebot/24983/Lehrkraft-fur-besondere-Aufgaben-m-w-d-im-Fach-Englisch
Contact person: Cristiano Broccias <c.broccias@unige.it>
Subject: Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
University or Organization: University of Genoa
Department: Modern Languages and Culture
Job Location: Genoa, Italy
Web Address: https://lingue.unige.it/
Job Title: Assistant Professor in English Language and Linguistics
Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
Deadline for applications: 16th May 2022 at noon
Prospective candidates must have:
Åbo Akademi University wishes to appoint a university lecturer in English Language (universitetslektor), including linguistics, starting from September 1, 2022, or as agreed.
Description of the position
The university lecturer will have a wide ranging responsibility for teaching, including courses in sociolinguistics, English linguistics, and applied linguistics, as well as in the social and historical context of English-speaking countries. Teaching tasks will also include courses in spoken and written skills. Additionally, the lecturer supervises and examines Bachelor’s and Master’s theses on language-related topics. Depending on the competences of the candidate, teaching duties may also include participation in courses that are provided jointly for all students in the faculty.
The university lecturer will be expected to participate in a variety of administrative tasks, such as coordination of the students’ language practice and exchange programmes with overseas universities.
A university lecturer may be given the opportunity to conduct research for a maximum of one third of the contract hours. The university lecturer will participate in departmental research seminars and contribute to the research activities of the subject.
The university lecturer has a total working time of 1,612 hours per year, and the work tasks will be defined in detail in an annual work plan. A trial period applies to all new employees.
Qualification requirements and evaluation
In accordance with the University Board’s decree, a university lecturer is required to have a doctorate in the subject they are teaching or in a closely related discipline, as well as pedagogical competence.
Application
The application should be submitted electronically in the University recruitment system (www.abo.fi/rekrytering) no later than 23 May 2022 at 3 PM (Finnish time) with the following enclosures:
The full announcement is posted at https://abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index.php?jid=544&key=&o=A_RJ&rspvt=p0bmodttrascsggcscck0wkcwg4gosg
The University of Nice (UCA), France, offers a Professorship in English Linguistics starting in September 2021. Candidates are invited to contact urgently Christian Gutleben: christian.gutleben@univ-cotedazur.fr.
The Faculty of Translation Studies, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, FB06, Campus Germersheim, invites applications for the position of a Junior Professorship of Anglophone Studies (Bes.Gr. W 1 LBesG) to be in post on 01.04.2020.
Details here.
Karl-Frazens University of Graz (Austria)
The Institute of English Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
is seeking to appoint a
Professor (f/m) of English Literary and Cultural Studies pursuant to §98 of the University Act (UG)
(40 hours per week; permanent employment according to the Austrian Law on Salaried Employment (AngG); expected starting date October 1st 2020)
The holder of the position will represent the field of English literary and cultural studies from the early modern period up to and including the 18th century in research and teaching, with a particular focus on Shakespearean drama. Teaching responsibilities concern the bachelor’s and master’s programmes in English and American studies, the English teacher training programme, and the doctoral programme. Research and teaching should focus on literary studies and philologically-oriented cultural studies. In addition, the holder of the position will seek points of contact with existing research collaborations at the institute and at the faculty. Applicants are expected to have a record of excellent research activities and teaching experience in the above-mentioned fields. The candidate is expected to have a habilitation or equivalent qualification in English Literature, excellent academic qualification in research and teaching for the relevant subject, and a very good command of German. In addition, we expect gender mainstreaming competence.
Please submit your applications stating the reference number BV/19/98 ex 2018/19 by March 27th 2019 at the latest.
For information about the application procedures and other prerequisites, please visit
jobs.uni-graz.at/en/BV/19/98.
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