36.3594, Jobs: Romance; French, Italian, Spanish; Language Acquisition: Tenure-Track Professorship in Romance Linguistics: Language Acquisition, University of Vienna

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Subject: 36.3594, Jobs: Romance; French, Italian, Spanish; Language Acquisition: Tenure-Track Professorship in Romance Linguistics: Language Acquisition, University of Vienna

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Date: 21-Nov-2025
From: Eva-Maria Remberger [eva-maria.remberger at univie.ac.at]
Subject: Romance; French, Italian, Spanish; Language Acquisition: Tenure-Track Professorship in Romance Linguistics: Language Acquisition, University of Vienna


Job Location: Vienna, Austria
Web Address:
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professorship-in-Romance-Linguistics-Language-Acquisition/1262938001/
Job Title: Tenure-Track Professorship in Romance Linguistics: Language
Acquisition
Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Salary: Kollektivvertrag Universität (level A2)

Minimum Education: Doctoral degree/PhD

Specialty Areas: Language Acquisition

Specialty Language(s): French (fra)
                       Italian (ita)
                       Spanish (spa)
                       Romance

Other Specialties: multilingualism, language contact, foreign language
acquisition
Description:
The professorship will focus on language acquisition in the Romance
languages (L1, L2, foreign language acquisition, multilingualism) both
in research and teaching. We expect a PhD in this field of research
covering at least one of the three languages French, Italian and
Spanish. The candidate is expected to represent at least two, ideally
all three languages in research and teaching. The candidate should
have experience and competences that cover both language acquisition
theories and empirical methods of language acquisition research.
The professorship is part of a research-active department with a high
potential for cooperation in the fields of language acquisition, in
particular multilingualism, language contact and foreign language
acquisition. The successful candidate will have many further
opportunities to connect and cooperate with other departments in the
faculty in fields including, but not limited to, psycholinguistics,
applied linguistics, grammar theory, historical and comparative
linguistics as well as socio- and variational linguistics.
https://romanistik.univie.ac.at/
 Your academic profile:
 - Doctoral degree/PhD
 - Two years of international research experience during or after
doctoral studies
 - Outstanding research achievements, excellent publication and
funding record, international reputation
 - Gender and diversity competence
 - Experience in designing of and participating in research projects,
ability to lead research groups and acquire third-party funding
 - Enthusiasm for excellent teaching and supervision at the
bachelor's, master's, and doctoral level
We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years,
proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor's programmes
and for participation in university committees.
We offer:
 - the opportunity to obtain a permanent position and eventual
promotion to full professor; the initial contract as Assistant
Professor is limited to six years, after positive evaluation of a
qualification agreement the contract becomes permanent as Associate
Professor; Associate Professors can be promoted to Full Professor
through an internal competitive procedure.
 - a dynamic research environment
 - a wide range of research and teaching support services
 - attractive working conditions in a city with a high quality of life
 - an attractive salary according to the Collective Bargaining
Agreement for University Staff (level A2) and an organisational
retirement plan

Application Deadline: 10-Dec-2025
Email Address for Applications: berufungsservice at univie.ac.at
Web Address for Applications:
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professorship-in-Romance-Linguistics-Language-Acquisition/1262938001/
Application Instructions:
Application documents (in English):
 1. Letter of motivation
 2. Academic curriculum vitae
 - education and training (PhD Certificate, PDF)
 - positions held to date
 -  career breaks (e.g. relevant parental, family or other care
periods)
 - awards and honors
 - commissions of trust
 - previous and current cooperation partners
 - complete list of acquired third-party funding and, if applicable,
of inventions/patents
 - list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
 - teaching and mentoring
 - supervision experience (Master and PhD), if applicable
 3. List of publications
 - link to your own publicly accessible ORCID record, with a complete
and current publication list
 - three key publications as electronic full text version (PDF, max 30
MB)
 4. Research statement
 - most important research achievements (max. 2 pages) and planned
future research activities (max. 4 pages)
 - synopsis of three key publications with relevance to the position
advertised
 - publication strategy
 5. Teaching and supervision statement
 - teaching and supervision concept, including a description of the
previous and planned priorities in academic teaching and supervision
(max. 2 pages)
 - teaching evaluations (if available, PDF)
Only applications submitted through the link "Apply now" on the
indicated web-site will be considered.
Contact Information:
        Berufungsservice
        Email: berufungsservice at univie.ac.at



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