German Studies 2014-2015

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, the AATG job list, jobs.ac.uk, and other lists and websites. This site will serve as the primary source of information this year as the previous host site (wikihost.org) has become unreliable.

Click here for the 2013-2014 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, 16/17th c., due 11/1/08
 * 2) * writing sample requested by e-mail 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) Boston C (MA), asst. prof., due 11/1/14, link
 * 2) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, asst. prof., specialization in contemp. German studies with direct relevance to cultural anthropology, media and arts, digital humanities, urban/youth/popular cultures, ethnicity/diaspora, or German history/literature/cultural studies, due 10/1/14, link
 * 3) Portland State U (OR), asst. prof., due 12/15/14, link
 * 4) St. Olaf C (MN), asst. or assoc. prof., review begins 10/1/14, link
 * 5) U of Alabama, asst. prof., interest in business or technical German, due 11/1/14, link
 * 6) U of California, Berkeley, asst. prof., 1750 to the present, due 11/3/14, link
 * 7) U of Colorado, Boulder, asst. prof., any research specialty post-1750 (Romanticism, gender studies, queer theory, psychoanalysis especially desirable), review begins 10/1/14, open until filled, link
 * 8) U of Michigan, asst. prof., esp. interdisciplinary research foci such as migration/diaspora studies, ethnic/minority studies, or transnational/comparative studies, due 10/15/14, link
 * 9) U of New Hampshire, asst. prof., research area open, preference for interdisciplinary fields and/or comparativist research in the 20th and 21st C, due 12/15/14, link
 * 10) U of North Carolina, Asheville, asst. prof., 20th or 21st C German lit. and culture, due 10/13/14, link
 * 11) U of Washington, asst. prof., late 18th, 19th, or early 20th C German lit. and culture, due 10/31/14, link
 * 12) Williams C (MA), asst. prof., specialization from 18th C to present, interdisciplinary and/or comparative focus strongly preferred, due 12/1/14, link

Visiting/Lecturer/non-Tenure Track Positions
See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2014-15


 * 1) Amherst C (MA), full-time lecturer in German language and culture, multi-year renewal contingent upon 3rd-yr. review, review begins 12/1/14, link
 * 2) Baylor U (TX), regular lecturer, due 10/15/14, link
 * 3) Northern Michigan U, 3-year asst. prof., due 11/10/14, link
 * 4) Pennsylvania State U, 3-year lecturer, must have experience teaching online, due 11/15/14, link
 * 5) Rice U (TX), lecturer, second language acquisition, due 11/15/14, link

Applied Linguistics/Language Coordinator/Pedagogy/Program Director Positions

 * 1) Carnegie Mellon U (PA), open rank prof. in second language acquisition, due 10/31/14, link
 * 2) Dartmouth C (NH), language program director, due 11/15/14, link

Faculty Positions outside of the US

 * 1) Deutsch-Jordanische Hochschule (Jordan), Promovierte Lehrkraft für Fach- und Wissenschaftssprache, link
 * 2) Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Universitätsprofessor/in, Fachdidaktik des Unterrichtsfaches Deutsch (Literaturdidaktik), due 10/15/2014
 * 3) Université de Lausanne, Ordentliche Professur für germanistische Linguistik (100%), no due date given

Multi-Language Faculty Positions

 * 1) New Mexico State U, college asst. prof. of German and Portuguese, due 10/15/14, link
 * 2) U of Chicago, asst. prof. comparatist, nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and Russian literature and culture, due 09/22/14, link (also posted at Comparative 2015 and Russian/Slavic 2014-2015)

Other Germanic Languages

 * 1) U of Washington, asst. prof. of Norwegian

Other German-Related Faculty Positions
NOTE: German History positions are also posted at European History 2014-15
 * 1) Loyola U Maryland, asst. prof. of modern German history, due 11/15/14, link
 * 2) U of Chicago, asst. or assoc. prof. of philosophy, German idealism, due 9/30/14, link
 * 3) U of North Carolina, Asheville, asst. prof. of modern German or Central European History, incl. colonial or postcolonial African History link
 * 4) U of Utah, asst. prof. of history, 20th C German history, due 10/20/14, link