Slavic Language Coordinator Position at the University of Chicago

The Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures at the University of Chicago is accepting applications for a three year renewable appointment as a Language Coordinator at the rank of Senior Lecturer beginning July 1, 2013. The duties will include developing, overseeing and coordinating the Department’s language program, which currently offers Russian, Czech, BCS, Polish and Georgian. In addition, the Coordinator will be closely involved in training and supervising graduate student instructors. The Language Coordinator will teach four quarter long courses per year; one of these will regularly be a pedagogy course for graduate students preparing to teach a Slavic language.

The position is open to all candidates who will have completed all requirements toward the Ph.D. by June 30, 2013, and have native or near-native proficiency in Russian and English. The ideal candidate must be able to teach all levels of Russian language and have a demonstrated commitment to current pedagogical theory and language teaching, as well as experience in an American university setting teaching and supervising staff. Knowledge of one or more other Slavic languages is a plus.

To apply for this position please go to the University of Chicago Academic Career Opportunities website, https://academiccareers.uchicago.edu and select requisition #01531, and upload your curriculum vitae, a research statement, a separate statement addressing how your teaching would strike a balance between teaching grammar and communicative skills, and the names and contact information for three references.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2012.

Application deadline: All application materials, including reference letters, must be uploaded by 11:59 PM CST on Tuesday, January 15, 2013.

The position is contingent upon final budgetary approval.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

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