Lecturer in World Literature
Goldsmiths, University of London - English and Comparative Literature
Location: London
Salary: £36,009 to £40,161 pa incl LW
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed on: 9th June 2015
Closes: 26th June 2015 noon
Job Ref: ECL000020
The Role
We are looking to appoint a dynamic Lecturer in World Literature to teach across a range of modules on our BA and MA programmes, and to develop our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision in literature originally written in non-European languages. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates but are looking particularly for a specialist in Arabic literature. We are interested especially, but not exclusively, in a focus on any one or more of the following: the global circulation, translation and reception of texts (literary, dramatic, filmic...); literary and cultural contacts and exchanges, whether in the present or in/across different historical periods; evolving identities under the pressures of competing nationalisms, cosmopolitanisms, and globalization and of tensions between modernity and tradition within global systems and markets; transnational perspectives.
You will have a PhD in World or Comparative Literature or a related area and a successful track record of research and publication, as appropriate to your career stage. You will demonstrate further potential for excellent research and a commitment to public engagement.
You will contribute to the broad range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes offered by the Department, including the BA in English and Comparative Literature and the MA in Comparative Literary Studies (with six pathways, soon to expand to seven). You will contribute to these programmes aim to advance students’ powers of engagement with literatures in English, in translation or in the original language from various regions of the World.
The Department
The Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths offers specialist teaching and research in English, American, Caribbean and European literatures, linguistics and creative writing. With over 600 students and 35 academic staff, it is one of the largest departments in Goldsmiths. Teaching, at all levels, is research– and/or practice-led, combining the analytical and the creative to offer distinctive courses in literary criticism, linguistics, and in creative writing taught by some of the most prominent contemporary British poets and novelists.
The Department offers a broad range of undergraduate programmes, in English Literature or English Literature in combination with: American Literature; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; Drama; English Language, History; or Media.
The graduate community in ECL is active and thriving. It has 60+ students enrolled on MPhil and PhD programmes, and there are 80+ students studying MA programmes, including Comparative Literary Studies (with six pathways); Creative & Life Writing; and Sociocultural Linguistics. For more information about the Department, visit http://www.gold.ac.uk/ecl/
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