28.790, Jobs: English; Spanish; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven

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Subject: 28.790, Jobs: English; Spanish; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven

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Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:24:26
From: Bert Cornillie [bert.cornillie at kuleuven.be]
Subject: English; Spanish; General Linguistics: Assistant Professor, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

 
University or Organization: KU Leuven 
Department: Department of Linguistics
Job Location: Leuven, Belgium 
Job Title: Half-time senior academic staff in the domain of Spanish linguistics
Job Rank: Assistant Professor

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      Spanish (spa) 

Description:

We are looking for candidates who are internationally oriented, have excellent
teaching competence and an excellent research record.

Research:

Academic research and teaching in the domain of Spanish linguistics.

You will obtain outstanding scientific results of an international level.
Within the Research Unit Linguistics you will join the research group with
which you have closest affinity. Moreover, you will support and develop
interfaculty, national and international forms of collaboration within your
research group. You will take initiatives to acquire competitive funding, and
will actively help to build future research projects.

Teaching:

You will teach courses in the Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature and the
Master of Linguistics and Literature, with a clear commitment to the quality
of the programme as a whole. Your teaching is expected to meet the standards
of an academic programme in terms of its level, orientation and academic
content.

Upon starting your teaching assignment constitutes the following courses:

- Spaanse Taalkunde I (BA1, Kortrijk, 26 u)
- Spaanse Taalkunde II (BA2, Kortrijk, 39 u)
- Spaanse Taalkunde III (BA3, Leuven, 26 u)
- Análisis del Discurso (MA, Manana, Leuven, 26 u)

Your teaching assignment will in first instance take place on the faculty’s
campus in Leuven and Kortrijk, but you should be prepared to take on teaching
assignments on other campuses of the faculty and in related programmes, should
this be deemed desirable.

You will develop your teaching approach in keeping with KU Leuven’s
educational vision, and will make use of the possibilities for educational
professionalization offered by the faculty and university.

You will also contribute to the faculty’s pedagogical project by supervising
bachelor’s and master’s dissertations in the programmes of Linguistics and
Literature.

Service:

You are prepared to take on internal administrative and management duties, and
to assist in intensifying the relations between the programmes and the
professional field.
Requirements

You hold a PhD in Linguistics (or an equivalent relevant diploma) with a focus
on Spanish.

You have outstanding didactic qualities in academic education, you speak
native or near-native Spanish and you have an excellent research record in the
domain of Spanish Linguistics. The quality of your research should be
evidenced by high-level international publications.

You possess organisational skills and have a collegial spirit.

Your application file should include a fully developed research proposal for
the coming years (maximally two pages) and a profile statement outlining your
view on teaching (maximally two pages).

Proficiency in English is required.

The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If you do not
speak Dutch (or do not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven
will provide language training to enable you to take part in administrative
meetings.

Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity
to learn Dutch, respectively English, to the required standard.

Offer:

You will be appointed as assistant professor tenure track.

KU Leuven pursues a policy of equal opportunity and diversity.

Interested?



Application Deadline: 18-Mar-2017 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://goo.gl/6qabPB 
Contact Information:
	Bert Cornillie 
	Email: bert.cornillie at kuleuven.be 


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