29.577, Jobs: Russian; General Linguistics: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham

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Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:10:45
From: Erin Withers [e.withers at bham.ac.uk]
Subject: Russian; General Linguistics: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK

 
University or Organization: University of Birmingham 
Department: Modern Languages
Job Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom 
Web Address: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk
Job Title: Lectureship/Senior Lectureship in Modern Languages (Russian)
Job Rank: Lecturer; Senior Lecturer

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): Russian (rus)

Description:

The Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham is seeking
to make an appointment at Lecturer or (for a suitable candidate) Senior
Lecturer level. This post is part of a significant programme of investment in
the Department. The appointment will both reinforce and expand existing
research and education strengths, following the recent appointment of a number
of chairs and lectureships. The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer will contribute to
the Department’s renewed vision for the future of Modern Languages as it is
studied and researched in the University.

The successful candidate will be an excellent researcher, holding or close to
completing a PhD or equivalent qualifications and with ambitious future
agendas for research, impact, and external funding bids that complement and
expand current activity in the Department. The appointee will be an excellent
teacher, and will contribute at all degree programme levels, including core
and specialist modules and Russian language teaching.

The Department welcomes applications from specialists in any relevant time
period or geographical area. The Department will give consideration both to
applicants who specialize in solely in Russian, and to those who research and
teach Russian alongside one or more other language areas, providing that
Russian is a major part of their work.

Preference may be given to candidates who work in one or more of the following
areas, but consideration will be given to all outstanding candidates:
- Translation/Interpreting
- Linguistics
- Interdisciplinary or comparative cultural study

Preference may be given to candidates whose approach to research relates to
one of the following, but consideration will be given to all outstanding
candidates:
- Linkages and/or comparisons between diverse times and/or places and/or media
- Sexuality studies with particular regard to intersectional identities
- Relationships (historical or contemporary) between technology and knowledge

The Department of Modern Languages sits within the School of Languages,
Cultures, Art History and Music in the College of Arts and Law. In Modern
Languages research at Birmingham, we explore how the study of languages,
discourses, and cultures challenges how we understand and experience the
world. Our key concerns involve asking how foreign languages, discourses, and
cultures – as objects and methods in their own right, and in all their
multiplicity – relativize our ways of thinking, and how an awareness of this
enables us to identify links and interconnections where there appears to be
only difference and otherness. The College of Arts and Law is recognised as
one of the strongest and largest concentrations of Humanities and Law scholars
in the UK.  As a member of the College of Arts and Law, the Lecturer/Senior
Lecturer will join a flourishing community with opportunities for intellectual
and other leadership, challenging and rewarding teaching, and a collegiate and
highly ambitious research environment.

Please apply via the University website (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs;
job reference 31760).  For further information please contact Professor Andrew
Ginger a.ginger at bham.ac.uk.



Application Deadline: 18-Feb-2018 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs 
Contact Information:
	Professor Andrew Ginger 
	Email: a.ginger at bham.ac.uk 


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