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) Indiana U Bloomington, asst. or assoc. prof., early Germanic langs., due 11/15/19, link
 * 8) Iowa SU, asst. prof., 20th/21st C, due 11/15/19, link
 * 9) Kalamazoo C (MI), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 10) Lafayette C (PA), asst. prof., due 10/25/19, link
 * 11) New York U, asst. prof., 20th/21st C, due 11/1/19, link
 * 12) Occidental C (CA), asst. prof., due 11/2/19, link
 * 13) U of Arizona, asst. prof., post-1700, due 11/4/19, link
 * 14) U of Louisville (KY), asst. prof., due 9/15/19, link
 * 15) U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, asst. or assoc. prof., German-Jewish studies, review begins 10/31/19, link
 * 16) U of Puget Sound (WA), asst. prof., German lit. and culture from 1890-1949, due 10/1/19, link
 * 17) 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
 * 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) Miami University (OH), 1-yr. visiting asst. prof., open, due 10/15/19 (start date is JAN 2020) 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

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) Rhodes C (TN), 2-yr. asst. prof., review begins 9/25/19, link
 * 6) *Search has been cancelled?
 * 7) 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) 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 (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

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) 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): 5

Ph.D. in hand (visiting asst. prof., lecturer/senior lecturer, post-doc, adjunct): 9

Ph.D. in hand (alt ac):

Ph.D. in hand (unemployed):

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.
 * 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) 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.