German Studies 2019-2020

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 2018-2019 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.

For example:
 * 1) Midwest Dreamland U, asst. prof., 20th C, due 11/1/19, link
 * 2) * writing sample requested by email, 12/1 (x5)
 * 3) * phone interview scheduled, 12/15 (x4)
 * 4) * MLA interview scheduled, 12/20 (x3)
 * 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 Faculty Positions

 * 1) Carleton C (MN), asst. prof., due 9/1/19, link
 * 2) Emory U (GA), asst. prof., transnational/migration studies, due 10/15/19, link
 * 3) Harvard U (MA), asst. prof., due 10/1/19, link
 * 4) Iowa SU, asst. prof., 20th/21st C, due 11/15/19, link
 * 5) Kalamazoo C (MI), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 6) Lafayette C (PA), asst. prof., due 10/25/19, link
 * 7) Occidental C (CA), asst. prof., due 11/2/19, link
 * 8) U of Louisville (KY), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 9) U of Puget Sound (WA), asst. prof., German lit. and culture from 1890-1949, due 10/1/19, link
 * 10) Vanderbilt U (TN), asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link

Senior Faculty Positions

 * 1) U of British Columbia, head of dept. and full or assoc. prof., due 8/26/19, link

Visiting/Non-Tenure Track/Term-Limited Faculty Positions
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2019-2020
 * 1) Middlebury C (VT), 3-yr. visiting asst. prof., open, due 12/16/19, link
 * 2) St. Norbert C (WI), 1-yr. visiting asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link

Applied Linguistics/Language Coordinator/Pedagogy/Program Director Positions

 * 1) U of Texas, Austin, asst. or assoc. prof., digital learning, due 11/8/19, link
 * 2) U of Wisconsin, La Crosse, asst. prof., world lang. education, review begins 10/4/19, link

Renewable Non-Tenure Track Lecturer/Instructor Positions

 * 1) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, senior lecturer, due 9/16/19, link
 * 2) U of Notre Dame (IN), asst. teaching prof., due 10/27/19, link

Faculty Positions outside of Canada and the U.S.

 * 1) Aristotle U of Thessaloniki (Greece), full prof., German and comparative lit., due 9/19/19, link
 * 2) Australian National U (Australia), lecturer/asst. prof., German Studies, due 10/4/19, link
 * 3) Durham U (UK), 1-yr. teaching fellow in German, due 9/10/19, link
 * 4) Shanghai Normal U (China), language instructor, German, due 10/20/19, link
 * 5) U of Bielefeld (Germany), assoc. prof., Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (W2), due 9/30/19, link
 * 6) U of Bielefeld (Germany), asst. prof., W1-Professur mit Tenure Track nach W2 für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Literaturtheorie/Digital Humanities, due 9/30/19, link
 * 7) U of Heidelberg (Germany), full prof., Professur (W3) für germanistische Sprachwissenschaft mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sprachgeschichte, due 10/6/19, link
 * 8) U of Mainz (Germany), asst. prof., Junior Professorship in Modern German Literary Studies/Literature Didactics, due 09/07/19, link
 * 9) U of Passau (Germany), full prof., Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (W3), due 10/10/19, link
 * 10) U of Potsdam (Germany), assoc. prof., Germanistische Linguistik/Sprachgebrauch (W2 or W3), due 8/29/19, link
 * 11) U of Vienna (Austria), asst. prof., Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, due 9/18/19, link

Other German-Related Faculty Positions
NOTE: German History positions are posted at European History 2019-2020
 * 1) U of California, Los Angeles, asst. prof. of European langs. and transcultural Europe (1000-1700), due 10/21/19, 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):

ABD (will finish this academic year): 3

Ph.D. in hand (visiting asst. prof., lecturer/senior lecturer, post-doc, adjunct): 7

Ph.D. in hand (alt ac):

Ph.D. in hand (unemployed):

Assistant Professor:

Associate Professor:

Full Professor:

Search Committee Member:

Lurker: 3

Concerned grandmother:

Faculty "Job Coach":

Discussion

 * Re: Kalamazoo C.: just FYI: https://www.thekzooindex.com/german-faculty-denied-tenure-students-and-alumni-voice-concerns/. This is not here to discourage or encourage anybody either way, but these are the circumstances under which the position is available.
 * 1) U of Puget Sound position: inside candidate
 * 2) Same can be said for many of the others as well