Thursday, October 18, 2007

assistant professor - netherlands

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/XC820/Assistant_professor_in_Italian_Studies/


Assistant professor in Italian Studies

Utrecht University

(0,4 fte)
(Utrecht), 16 hours per week

Job description
Function title: Assistant professor in Italian Studies

In this part-time (40%) position with tenure you will teach part of the courses offered in the BA and MA program in Italian Studies, particularly courses in the field of modern and contemporary Italian culture and literature. You will also participate in the course program of several collateral MA programs, notably the Research MA in Literary Studies. You are an established specialist in modern and/or contemporary Italian culture and literature with an international research profile. As a fellow of the Research Institute for History and Culture, your current and future research projects match the overall agenda of the Utrecht Research Group in Textual Culture. You have a good track record in academic services and will act as a co-ordinator in various academic programs and committees.

Requirements
Required education/skills:Doctorate
We ask:
an Italianist with a completed PhD in the field of modern and/or contemporary Italian culture/literature, and an international research profile;
an experienced teacher in Italian Studies;
a candiadte who is willing to obtain the teaching qualifications required by the Faculty;
fluency in Italian, English and Dutch.
Non-Dutch candidates will be required to achieve fluency in Dutch within two years of appointment.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Professor, senior lecturers, lecturers(Scientific discipline: Language & Culture)

Organization
Utrecht University
The Utrecht University Faculty of Humanities is broadly based, interdisciplinary and internationally oriented. The Faculty offers courses and conducts research in the languages and cultures of Western and Southern Europe, history, fine arts, philosophy, theology, communications and information studies.

The faculty consist of seven schools, including the school of foreign languages, which offers BA and MA degrees in the fields of English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Celtic, linguistics and literary studies. Research programmes in these areas fall under the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC) or the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL OTS).

The Italian division has a vacancy for a:

Assistant professor in Italian Studies.

Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 4500 - 5000
Salary: scale 12.
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 4761
Employment basis: Permanent
Maximum hours per week: 16

Additional conditions of employment:
We offer a part-time tenure-track position of assistant professor (40%), starting 1 December 2007. The salary range – depending on track record – from € 2,279.- to € 4,761.- per month with a full-time position.

Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

professor Harald Hendrix, chair of Italian Studies at Utrecht University
E-mail address: harald.Hendrix@let.uu.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:Application
You can apply for this job before 21-10-2007 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:

Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Section Human Resources
Ingrid Wagenaar
Kromme Nieuwegracht 46
3512 HJ Utrecht

E-mail: PenO@let.uu.nl

When applying for this job always mention the vacancy number 68745E.