** note the tight deadline for applications: Nov 23, 2023* at 11:59 PM
Eastern Time *
Tenure-track position in Sociolinguistics
Pompeu Fabra University: Department of Translation and Language Sciences
Position description
We are seeking to fill a faculty position in the area of Sociolinguistics.
This is a regular faculty appointment. Duties include research and
knowledge transfer, teaching, and administrative service.
*Research profile: *We are seeking to hire a researcher with a PhD in
Linguistics or allied field who will be establishing, or have established,
a track record of high-quality research in sociolinguistics and who is
committed to excellence in teaching and supervision. We particularly
welcome applications from scholars whose research and teaching interests
include experimental or computational methods for sociolinguistics which
will establish new connections with other research areas in the department
including computational linguistics, corpus studies, language variation,
multi/bilingualism, language contact, language attitudes, or discourse
analysis. Ideally, the candidate will be familiar with and/or work on the
specific sociolinguistic situation of Catalonia or related/similar contexts.
The candidate is expected to have skills for transferring research outcomes
to the academic community as well as society at large.
While pursuing their own research agenda, the candidate is expected to
strengthen the Department’s research priorities and to be able to engage in
interdisciplinary collaboration with research groups in the Department and,
more broadly, the Catalan research ecosystem. They should have a clear
vision on how to apply for funding, with an ambitious but realistic plan
for the next five years.
*Teaching responsibilities:*The appointee will teach between 120 and 180
classroom hours annually in undergraduate and graduate courses, including
final project supervision (undergraduate, master’s and PhD dissertations).
Specifically, they will be expected to coordinate teams of co-teachers as
well as teach in the module of Language and Society in the BA degrees
offered by the School of Translation and Language Sciences and in the
master’s degrees of the Department (Master’s in Discourse Studies and
Master’s in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics).
*Department offer:*Annual gross salary is ca. 37,200 €. The standard
duration of the contract is 5 years; during the 4th year the Tenure-track
lecturer will undergo performance evaluation in all areas, including their
commitment to the Department’s goals and needs. If performance evaluation
is successful, the University will issue a call for a permanent, tenured
position.
Tenure-track faculty are eligible for the reimbursement of relocation
expenses.
More information and application: https://apply.interfolio.com/135520