German Studies 2015-2016

This page is dedicated to academic jobs in German. The jobs found here are added by individuals as well as drawn from sources such as the MLA job list, Higher Ed Jobs, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, jobs.ac.uk, and other lists and websites.

Click here for the 2014-2015 list

Please add jobs with the following format:

Name of college/university, title/rank, preferred area(s) of specialization, application due date, link to job ad.

As job search progress indicators become available, add the type of information and date. The link to a job description can be deleted after the application due date. After an offer has been accepted, please underline the name of the institution so that we can easily see which positions have already been filled.

Highlight new offers for the first week:

First week: Midwest Dreamland U, 16/17th C, due 11/1/15

Following weeks: Midwest Dreamland U, 16/17th C, due 11/1/15

For example:
 * 1) Midwest Dreamland U, 16/17th C, due 11/1/15
 * 2) * writing sample requested by email 12/1
 * 3) * phone interview scheduled 12/15
 * 4) * MLA interview scheduled 12/20
 * 5) * on-campus interview invitation 1/15
 * 6) * offer extended 3/15
 * 7) * offer accepted 3/25
 * 8) * rejection letter received 4/1

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Tenure Track Literature/Culture/Film Faculty Positions

 * 1) Beloit C (WI), asst. prof., review begins 11/15/2015, link
 * 2) Bryn Mawr C (PA), adv. asst. or assoc. prof. without tenure, generalist, due 11/1/15, link
 * 3) California SU, Long Beach, asst. prof., preference for 19th and 20th C, review begins 9/7/15, link
 * 4) Carleton C (MN), asst. prof., advanced ranks also considered, review begins 10/1/15, link
 * 5) Elon U (NC), asst. prof., due 10/31/15, link
 * 6) Furman U (SC), asst. prof., open but ability to teach business German desirable, due 11/2/15, link
 * 7) Ohio State U (OH), asst. prof,  open, but expertise in one or more of the following areas is desirable: gender and sexuality studies; film and visual studies; theater studies; eighteenth-century literature and culture; minority culture; new media; German-Jewish literature and culture; digital humanities. due 11/20/15, link
 * 8) Scripps C (CA), asst. prof., due 11/17/15 link
 * 9) Texas A&M, entry-level asst. prof., German and Transnational/Global Studies, review begins 10/15/15, link
 * 10) U of Chicago (IL), adv. asst. or assoc. prof., pref. 20th- and 21st-C. literary, cultural, and media studies, deadline: 11/30/15, link
 * 11) U of Kentucky, asst. prof., role of sport in German lit./film of 20th/21st C, due 9/30/15 link
 * 12) U of Richmond (VA), asst. prof., preference for gender/sexuality, theater/performance, media/digital, or migration/cultural translation, due 11/30/15 for full consideration, link
 * 13) U of Washington, Seattle, entry-level asst. prof., medieval or early modern German lit. and culture. due 11/20/15, link

Senior Faculty Positions

 * 1) New York U, assoc. or full prof., due 10/15/15, link

Visiting/Lecturer/non-Tenure Track Positions
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2015-16
 * 1) Cornell U (NY), 2-yr. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in German Studies, media studies, due 12/15/15, link
 * 2) U of North Carolina, Charlotte, 3-yr. lecturer, must have experience with German Language for Specific Purposes (Engineering), review starts 10/26/15, link
 * 3) U of Pittsburgh (PA), 1-yr. visiting asst. prof., 1750 to the present, due 11/1/15, link
 * 4) U of Pittsburgh (PA), renewable lecturer, due 11/1/15, link
 * 5) U of Pittsburgh (PA), renweable lecturer, due 11/1/15, link
 * 6) Williams C (MA), 1-semester visiting position (Fall 2016), 20th and 21st C., due 12/1/15, link

Applied Linguistics/Language Coordinator/Pedagogy/Program Director Positions

 * 1) Oakland U (MI), asst. prof. of foreign lang. education, French/German/Japanese/Spanish, due 11/23/15, link
 * 2) Princeton U (NJ), 3-yr. senior lecturer, German lang. prgm. director., link
 * 3) Rice U (TX), lecturer, Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication, 1-yr., renewable, due 10/15/15, link
 * 4) Vanderbilt U (TN), 3-yr. senior lecturer, German lang. prgm. director, due 11/1/15, link

Faculty Positions outside of the US

 * 1) Hebrew U (Israel), open rank, 18th through 20th C, due 10/15/15, link
 * 2) Humboldt-U zu Berlin, W2-Professur für „Neuere deutsche Literatur mit komparatistischem Schwerpunkt“, Kennzeichen PR/014/15, link
 * 3) Newcastle U (UK), chair of German, post-1800, due 10/15/15, link
 * 4) U Bamberg, Juniorprofessur der Bes.Gr. W 1 für Germanistische Mediävistik, due 7/17/2015

Other German-Related Faculty Positions
NOTE: German History positions are also posted at European History 2015-16
 * 1) American U (DC), asst. prof., modern German history, due 10/1/15, link
 * 2) Elon U. (NC), asst. prof, 20th century central or eastern European history with preferred specialization in Germany, due 10/1/15, link
 * 3) Northwestern U (IL), asst. prof., modern German history, due 10/15/15, link
 * 4) U of Chicago (IL), asst. prof., modern German and European history, due 10/15/15, link
 * 5) U of Washington (WA), asst. prof., German History, due 11/1/15, link

Demographics
Change the count in the category to which you belong. This permits us to have somewhat of an overview on the nature of the market demographics in German Studies.

ABD (early): 1

ABD (will finish this academic year): 10

Ph.D. in hand (one-year, VAP, Lecturer, Post-doc, adjunct): 28

Assistant Professor: 6

Associate Professor: 2

Full Professor:

Search Committee Member:

Lurker: 7

Concerned grandmother: 1

Faculty "Job Coach": 1

Discussion

 * 1) It would be quite helpful for us all to know how many people and at what stage of their career they are on the job market. I hope the demographics section will help fill in a gap in knowing just how many of us are on the job market in a given year. Other disciplines use this regularly to gauge numbers.
 * 2) It's interesting information on how many people are contributing to the Wiki, but I think it doesn't tell us too much about how many people are on the market.
 * 3) Do we just put a tally next to the category that we fall into?
 * 4) Yes, I think that is a good approach. I added some instructions for this section. The categories may not encapsulate all there is on the job market. I imported them from another discipline's job wiki. We may, therefore, need to add a category here and there to account for the diversity of applicants.
 * 5) Can we move it below the list of jobs posted? It will be tedious to scroll over it once panic season hits, to check for new jobs, updates on the status of searches, etc. (x2)
 * 6) The order has been changed.
 * 7) There are 2 U of Pittsburgh lecturer positions advertised on the job list. Is that a mistake, or are they really hiring for two positions?
 * 8) According to the JIL, there are three positions at U of Pittsburgh.