At the request of Professor John Barnes, I am pleased to forward this
announcement to the list.
George Ferzoco
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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
Department of Italian
ASSISTANT LECTURER
Permanent Post
(Ref.: 145/99)
Applications are invited for the above post in Italian, tenable from
1_September 1999 or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates should
have an established interest in the Italian language and its linguistics.
The appointment will be made at the level of Assistant Lecturer.
The current salary scale is: IR#16,712-IR#26,972 p. a. (new entrants)
Entry point on the relevant scale will be in accordance with
qualifications and experience.
Closing date: not later than 5.00 pm on Thursday 8 July 1999
Prior to application, further information (including application
procedures) should be obtained from the Personnel Office, University
College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (quoting the above reference
number).
Telephone enquiries: +353-1-706.1645 or 706.1274
Fax: +353-1-269.2472
E-mail: >[log in to unmask]<
Further information on the above post may be obtained from the web-site:
>http://www.ucd.ie<.
UCD is an equal opportunities employer.
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The vacancy arises with the appointment of Dott. Michelangelo Zaccarello
to a position in the University of Oxford.
The UCD Department of Italian is the largest in the British Isles, with
up to 150 first-year undergraduates and 80 finalists each year, together
with about twenty postgraduate students at any one time. It is part of
the Faculty of Arts (the largest faculty in Ireland), where flexibility
of timetabling allows Italian to be studied in conjunction with an
exceptionally wide range of other subjects. All undergraduates reading
Italian study three subjects in their first year and two (equally
weighted) in their second and third years. The third is formally the
final undergraduate year, but many students intercalate a year of study
in a foreign university between their second and third years, some of
them as beneficiaries of the ERASMUS scheme. The Department has ERASMUS
links with the Universities of Cagliari, Padua, Pisa, Rome, Turin, Urbino
and Venice.
In addition to its own programmes, the Department contributes to the
teaching of courses leading to the MPhil in Medieval Studies and the MA
degrees in Drama Studies, Film Studies and Women's Studies. It runs its
own series of research seminars, organizes an annual series of six
lectures on Dante, in which most of the lecturers are specialists from
outside Ireland, and is responsible for the UCD Foundation for Italian
Studies, which publishes scholarly work in the field and editions for use
by undergraduates.
The successful candidate will be expected to engage in research and to
participate fully in the Department's teaching, examining and
administration. This will include language teaching, tutorials, and the
provision of courses on the history of Italian language and culture and
in such areas as Italian historical grammar and Italian sociolinguistics.
The University Library has holdings in Italian studies that are well
above average for a nineteenth-century institution (the University was
founded in 1854), resulting partly from vigorous acquisition of
second-hand book collections.
Apart from Dott. Zaccarello, the Department's full-time scholars and
their main fields of research are:
Professor and Head of Department
John C. Barnes, MA
Medieval Tuscan literature, especially Dante and historiography;
Pirandello; Dessi
Statutory Lecturer
Deirdre O'Grady, MA, Dott Lett, PhD
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature
College Lecturers
Ursula Fanning, MA, PhD
Twentieth-century literature, especially Pirandello and women writers
Eric Haywood, MA, PhD
Italian grammar; Renaissance literature, especially Machiavelli, Ariosto
and the culture of the Kingdom of Naples
Jennifer Petrie, MA, MLitt
Medieval literature, especially early poetry, Dante and Petrarch;
sixteenth-century women Petrarchist poets
Faculty Fellow
Leonardo Lastilla, Dott. Lett, PhD
Twentieth-century fiction
The Department also has three full-time native Italian language
assistants and about ten part-time teachers.
George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Italian Studies fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
University of Leicester e-mail [log in to unmask]
School of Modern Languages
LEICESTER LE1 7RH
UNITED KINGDOM
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