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) Auburn U (AL), asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link
 * 2) Carleton C (MN), asst. prof., due 9/1/19, link
 * 3) *Skype interview request, 9/28
 * 4) Emory U (GA), asst. prof., transnational/migration studies, due 10/15/19, link
 * 5) Georgia Institute of Technology, asst. or advanced asst. prof., due 11/4/19, link
 * 6) Harvard U (MA), asst. prof., due 10/1/19, link
 * 7) *Zoom interview request, 10/16 (x2)
 * 8) Indiana U Bloomington, asst. or assoc. prof., early Germanic langs., due 11/15/19, link
 * 9) Iowa SU, asst. prof., 20th/21st C, due 11/15/19, link
 * 10) Kalamazoo C (MI), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 11) *Zoom interview request, 10/16 (x4)
 * 12) Lafayette C (PA), asst. prof., due 10/25/19, link
 * 13) New York U, asst. prof., 20th/21st C, due 11/1/19, link
 * 14) Occidental C (CA), asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link
 * 15) U of Arizona, asst. prof., post-1700, due 11/4/19, link
 * 16) U of California, Santa Barbara, asst. prof., history and theory of digital humanities, due 11/22/19, link
 * 17) U of Louisville (KY), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 18) U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, asst. or assoc. prof., German-Jewish studies, review begins 10/31/19, link
 * 19) U of Puget Sound (WA), asst. prof., German lit. and culture from 1890-1949, due 10/1/19, link
 * 20) Vanderbilt U (TN), asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link
 * 21) Wheaton C (IL), asst. prof., link

Senior Faculty Positions

 * 1) U of British Columbia, head of dept. and full or assoc. prof., due 8/26/19, link
 * 2) U of North Carolina, Greensboro, assoc. or full prof., open, review begins 11/15/19, link

Visiting/Non-Tenure Track/Term-Limited Faculty Positions
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2019-2020
 * 1) Gettysburg C (PA), 1-yr. visiting asst. prof., due 3/1/20, link
 * 2) Middlebury C (VT), 3-yr. visiting asst. prof., open, due 12/16/19, link
 * 3) St. Norbert C (WI), 1-yr. visiting asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link
 * 4) U of Kansas, 2-yr. visiting asst. prof., post-1945, due 12/15/19, link

Applied Linguistics/Language Coordinator/Pedagogy/Program Director Positions

 * 1) U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, teaching asst. prof. and lang. program coordinator, review begins 10/20/19, link
 * 2) U of Texas, Austin, asst. or assoc. prof., digital learning, due 11/8/19, link
 * 3) U of Wisconsin, La Crosse, asst. prof., world lang. education, review begins 10/4/19, link -
 * 4) *video interview requested, 10/7

Renewable Non-Tenure Track Lecturer/Instructor Positions

 * 1) Boston U (MA), 2-yr. lecturer, due 11/23/19, link
 * 2) Hillsdale C (MI), 5-yr. asst. prof., due 11/22/19, link
 * 3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, senior lecturer, due 9/16/19, link
 * 4) *Skype interview request, 10/3 (x2)
 * 5) Northern Kentucky U, lecturer, link
 * 6) Rhodes C (TN), 2-yr. asst. prof., review begins 9/25/19, link
 * 7) *Search has been cancelled
 * 8) U of Notre Dame (IN), asst. teaching prof., due 10/27/19, link

Spring 2020 Positions

 * 1) Arizona SU, lecturer, due 11/1/19, link
 * 2) Miami U (OH), visiting asst. prof. or instructor, due 10/15/19, link
 * 3) St Olaf C (MN), part-time adjunct German instructor, review begins 9/25/19, link
 * 4) U of Maryland, College Park, 3-semester visiting asst. prof., due 11/1/19, link
 * 5) Williams C (MA), visiting asst. prof. or lecturer, due 10/12/19 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, lecturer/asst. prof., German Studies, due 10/4/19, link
 * 3) *Skype interview requested, 10/14 (x4)
 * 4) Durham U (UK), 1-yr. teaching fellow in German, due 9/10/19, link
 * 5) Shanghai Normal U (China), language instructor, German, due 10/20/19, link
 * 6) U of Bielefeld (Germany), assoc. prof., Kinder- und Jugendliteratur (W2), due 9/30/19, link
 * 7) 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
 * 8) U of Heidelberg (Germany), full prof., Professur (W3) für germanistische Sprachwissenschaft mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sprachgeschichte, due 10/6/19, link
 * 9) U of Mainz (Germany), asst. prof., Junior Professorship in Modern German Literary Studies/Literature Didactics, due 09/07/19, link
 * 10) U of Passau (Germany), full prof., Lehrstuhl für Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft (W3), due 10/10/19, link
 * 11) U of Potsdam (Germany), assoc. prof., Germanistische Linguistik/Sprachgebrauch (W2 or W3), due 8/29/19, link
 * 12) U of Vienna (Austria), asst. prof., Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, due 9/18/19, link

Multi-Language Faculty Positions

 * 1) Heidelberg U (OH), 2-yr. asst. prof. of German and Spanish, review begins immediately, 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
 * 2) U of Notre Dame (IN), open rank prof. in digital humanities and pre-modern studies, due 11/15/19, link
 * 3) Villanova U (PA), asst. prof. of philosophy, German critical theory and its extensions, due 10/17/19, 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): 7

Ph.D. in hand (visiting asst. prof., lecturer/senior lecturer, post-doc, adjunct): 10

Ph.D. in hand (alt ac):

Ph.D. in hand (unemployed):1

Assistant Professor:

Associate Professor:

Full Professor:

Search Committee Member: 1

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.
 * Re: Kalamazoo C: FYI: The internal candidate is the department co-chair's partner. Not to discourage or encourage anybody either way.
 * 1) U of Puget Sound position: inside candidate
 * 2) *Same can be said for many of the others as well
 * 3) *Having been the inside candidate somewhere last year, I can tell you that I was still not the first choice for the new hire.
 * 4) *Same here. Definitely don't assume the inside candidate has the job. Now, is it ethical for departments to hire people for visiting positions and then not into the TT job? That's another question. But that isn't on us as candidates. Apply for everything. You never know.
 * 5) *Senior academic and frequent search committee member here. Can only second what previous posters have said. This trend for anonymous Wiki warnings about "OMG, inside candidate!" is stupid and harmful. Yes, many hiring institutions will already have a visiting person. No, that doesn't mean the person is a lock for a job, or even necessarily that they have an advantage over anybody else. New lines don't fall from the sky, especially not in this economy. They usually only become available when a current faculty member retires/leaves, and that doesn't always happen on a predictable schedule. If it's too late to run a full-blown search for the following year, institutions are forced to hire a visitor to cover the gap. Visiting searches draw FAR fewer applicants than TT or long-term searches do and oftentimes are governed by different criteria than long-term searches (for example: can you cover exactly those courses we were already forced to put on the books for next year?). Do you really think a university is not going to conduct a rigorous and impartial search the following year, simply because the current visitor was one of the lucky few to apply the prior year and now it would be "unethical" not to employ them beyond the bounds of the original contract?
 * 6) **Yes, we all know that, but it would be nice if senior faculty (many of whom would not at all be competitve in the current job market) would acknowledge that this system of thankless one-year positions and the expectation that people have the ability to uproot their lives every year for several years, only to be passed over for a shiny new Ivy league grad (don't even get me started on the blatant classism of academia), is pretty darn "stupid and harmful."
 * 7) **I fully second the above. Also, to the "senior academic:" thank you for your insight, but there is a way to communicate what you did in a more productive manner. There is really no need for the lecturing and partially bitter/aggressive tone you employ in your response. This Wiki page is there to support those who have been and continue to be on the job market - we do our best to be highly aware of all situations (unpredictable schedules, budgets, Dean/Provost/President politics re: budgets, department politics, the alignment of stars needed for a new TT line to come in, etc.) and do understand that there are colleges/universities who conduct rigorous and impartial searches. However, we have also seen our fair share of "blatant classicm" and "choosing the internal candidate although internal candidate's research credentials and teaching are weak" first-hand.
 * 8) **It might also be worth adding that not all inside candidates are the same. If someone was hired this May, and the institution is now doing a search for a sort of similar sounding position, all bets are off. If someone was hired several years ago, and the search is weirdly specific in its wording, it really might be worth considering whether you want to take the time to apply. In this sense, it is certainly helpful when we use the wiki to share knowledge of inside candidates. We are all competent enough to know how to weight that in our decisions of whether to apply. Similarly, the ethics depend on timeline. The responsibility a department has to someone hired in May is different than to someone hired in January. Unfortunately, some departments violate MLA guidelines by hiring short term people on a tenure-track search timeline. If such a decision is made, those departments absolutely have an ethical responsibity towards those candidates. Senior faculty should not act as if they can do nothing but play the hand they've been dealt. We all know there are all kinds of constraints, but there are also possibilities, even risky ones, for resistance.
 * 9) Just as a reminder: if the institution features the name of the state where the institution is located, the addition of the state abbreviations next to the institution's name is redundant and unnecessary, which is why it is typically removed.
 * 10) *Before adding a job, please also check to see if it is already posted in one of the sections.
 * 11) Anyone know if the NYU position is a replacement for Avital Ronell?
 * 12) *No it is not.
 * 13) Please note: "WHEATON COLLEGE is an evangelical Protestant Christian liberal arts college whose faculty and staff affirm a Statement of Faith and adhere to lifestyle expectations of the Wheaton College Community Covenant."
 * 14) *Here's a link: https://www.wheaton.edu/about-wheaton/community-covenant/  If you're wondering whether you could work at this institution, just take a glance. Many colleges are religiously affiliated, and what that means varies tremendously. There are institutions with similarly worded requirements that ultimately just say something vague about faculty leading a life "open to the spiritual". This case is very different, but you can't know that without doing a little more than noting what is plainly written in the job ad.
 * 15) *Who cares. Every other job requires you to be feminist and pro-LGBT, are you that upset by a single exception?
 * 16) *I don't think whoever posted this statement expressed any sort of judgment or that they were upset about it. It seems they were just making it known so that potential applicants can accurately judge whether they would be a good fit for this particular institution because a requirement like this is the exception. Of course, we have every right to be upset. This institution's religious views are explicitly anti-LGTBQ+. As a private institution, this is not illegal, but absolutely immoral and goes against everything higher education stands for. I find the tone of the previous reply deeply offensive and aggressive.
 * 17) *I am offended by your desire to outlaw moralities that differ from your own. I find it rather aggressive, dare I say violent. Needless to say, I hope you'll be boycotting this application.
 * 18) *To the person directly above this comment: The previous commenter was not advocating to outlaw moralities different from their own. They simply offered up their own view/moral compass, specifically writing that (in their opinion) "the institution's religious views are...absolutely immoral" and that they go "against everything higher education stands for." Nowhere did they write that Wheaton's approach should be outlawed. Also, every "other job" does NOT REQUIRE you to "be feminist and pro-LGBTQ+" - when one has to write a DIVERSITY statement, one writes about an overall philosophy that includes everyone (including working with conservative/orthodox Jewish students, for example, if that is the case for someone). The fact that there is more emphasis on feminism, LGBTQ+, African Americans, etc. is because certain groups have experienced and continue to experience unbelievable hardship.
 * 19) *The respondent who posted #2 and #4 is being needlessly rude and aggressive. But it is also the case that there's no need to single out Wheaton or similar schools with special explanations like the one posted. It's the applicant's job to know the schools they're applying to, and the wide range of what a religious affiliation might mean should be well known to anyone on the market. Wheaton doesn't hide its commitments. The initial warning does actually suggest its writer holds some problematic views about religious/evangelical schools. Is a department home to a serial harasser? In that case (which we've seen before), then sure, a tip can be useful here, since that's not readily apparent information. But we don't need a special note to let us know that Wheaton is serious about its religious mission.