German 2020-2021

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.

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
   • writing sample requested by email, 12/1 (x5)
   • phone interview scheduled, 12/15 (x4)
   • MLA interview scheduled, 12/20 (x3)
   • on-campus interview invitation, 1/15
   • offer extended, 3/15
   • offer accepted, 3/25
   • rejection letter received, 4/1

Last year's page: German Studies 2019-2020 .

See also Comparative Literature, Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, and Philosophy.

Tenure Track Faculty Positions 

1. Hamilton C (NY), asst. prof., due 11/9/2020, link

Visiting/Non-Tenure Track/Term-Limited Faculty Positions

See also: Humanities and Social Sciences Postdocs 2020-2021

1. University of Maryland, Global Campus, Collegiate Faculty, World Languages and Culture, German Language. https://umgc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMGC_Careers/job/North-America-Remote/Collegiate-Faculty--Foreign-Language---Cultural-Studies_10010370

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): 4

Ph.D. in hand (visiting asst. prof., lecturer/senior lecturer, post-doc, adjunct): 3

Ph.D. in hand (alt ac):

Ph.D. in hand (unemployed): 2

Assistant Professor: 1

Associate Professor: 1

Full Professor: 

Search Committee Member:

Lurker:

Concerned grandmother:

Faculty "Job Coach": 1

Discussion

1. With the job market died the illusion that I could land a position if I just work hard and get lucky please the right people. How liberating!
   1.  Hear, Hear!
2.  wow - I was expecting drought but not quite a desert...
3. inb4 "but it's still early."
4. Maybe it's about time that mandatory retirement age was reintroduced. That was a boomer kick to the face of young faculty.
5. Do you really think that mandatory retirement would help right now?  My current institution would not hire a TT line for German, given *gestures vaguely*...
6. I hear that excuse a lot but if they really cared they could negotiate to preserve the line in exhange for an early departure. Of course they're not interested in actually serving Germanistik, only themselves.
7. At this point, with tenure definitely already in its death knells, I wouldn't even mind if retirements aren't replaced with TT lines. A solid lecturer position with an open contract would be enough.
   1. agreed
8. Applicant beware on University of Maryland Global Campus: it's a for-profit in all but name. It's not College Park or any of the respectable campuses in the system, but something more like Purdue Global. Its purpose is to sell off-the-shelf mostly online classes to underprivileged students in order to raise revenue for the rest of the Maryland system, and as such the only real concern of the organization is "enrollments, enrollments, enrollments." It should tell you something that an outfit you saw advertised at a nearby bus stop felt the need to use the word "quality" eight times in its job ad, because the courses you'll be teaching are anything but. Management is openly hostile to faculty, and they have used contract renewal time to cut salaries and benefits. I know this is an "any old port in the storm" year (like every year), but you might find that at UMGC the costs to your happiness and your professional integrity outweigh the benefits.