THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMAN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
LECTURESHIP IN GERMAN - FURTHER PARTICULARS
Applications are invited for the post of Lecturer in German. The post
is to be taken up no later than 18 September 2000.
The Department of German Studies at Manchester
The Department of German Studies is one of the five constituent
members of the School of Modern Languages. It is one of the leading
research departments in the UK, having achieved a 5A rating in both
the 1992 and 1996 HEFCE Research Assessment Exercises. It received an
excellent report in the Teaching Quality Assessment exercise in 1996.
The Department currently has an extensive range of expertise in German
Studies, spanning an area wider than most UK departments are able to
offer, and which it hopes with this appointment to develop further.
The Department offers a broad range of courses in German Studies which
form the basis of a single honours degree programme in German Studies
and which constitute the German component of a large number of joint
degree programmes, including not only Modern Languages, but also
popular joint degrees in European Studies and programmes with History,
English, Linguistics, History of Art and the sciences. The Department
regards as a strength the fact that it is able to offer options not
only in literary studies and linguistics, but also in German history,
with a particular emphasis on cultural and social history, thereby
providing an important enrichment in the opportunities we aim to give
students in studying all aspects of German culture and languages. The
Department has strong postgraduate numbers, both in terms of students
undertaking research and of those following taught Master's
programmes. The Department's contributions to the MA Programmes in
European Languages and Culture are an indicator of its
interdisciplinary strengths, and there is an expectation that the
successful candidate will contribute to teaching on MA programmes with
the School and Faculty. The newly constituted Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research in European and Post-Colonial Cultures
(EPOCC) also offers new opportunities for collaborative research
within and beyond the School of Modern Languages.
Further details on the Department and the available programmes can be
found on the Department's website:
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german.
The John Rylands University Library Manchester has first-rate
holdings in all areas of German Studies. The Department enjoys good
relations with the German Consulate-General in Manchester and with
the Manchester branch of the Goethe-Institut.
Job Description
The Department has core research strengths both in linguistics and in
literary studies and cultural history over a broad spectrum. With
this appointment it is intended to consolidate and develop its
research strengths in the field of modern German studies, embracing
literary, cultural and historical studies. The research activity of
the successful candidate may have as its focus literary, cultural or
historical specialisms, but will complement expertise currently
represented and should enhance the critical mass of these related
research fields. The appointee will be expected to teach and develop
courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level in appropriate areas
reflecting the research expertise. S/he may be required to contribute
to the level 1 course in German History currently on offer. The
Department is intending to extend and enhance its programme and the
successful candidate will be expected to offer the potential for new
dimensions currently not represented: for example, film and theatre,
twentieth century social history, relations between literary studies
and cultural history, cultural theory and history.
All members of the Department contribute to the language teaching
programme, and the successful candidate may be required to make a
contribution to language competence classes.
Person Specification
The successful candidate will have:
- An appropriate educational background in German Studies
- A completed or nearly completed doctorate in a relevant field
- A strong research record in a relevant field
- The ability to contribute to the teaching areas described in the job
description
- An excellent command of German The ability to contribute to the
language teaching programme
Department of German Studies: full-time staff
DAVID BELL, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge), Senior Lecturer and Chair of
Department: German literature and history of ideas in the 18th-century
and Goethezeit, with particular reference to the work of Goethe,
Herder and Lessing.
DAVID M. BLAMIRES, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge), Reader: Medieval and
16th-century literature; Volksbhcher; the impact of Germany on British
19th-century children's literature; fairytales, folktales, chapbooks.
WIEBKE G. BROCKHAUS, B.A., Ph.D. (London), Lecturer: Phonology,
especially the application of phonological theory to the pronunciation
of German and to language engineering.
PETER J. DAVIES, B.A., Ph.D. (Manchester), Leverhulme Research Fellow:
literature and history of the GDR; writers and communism;
Soviet-German literary relations; Brecht; Johannes R. Becher.
MARTIN DURRELL, M.A. (Cambridge), Dip. Gen. Ling. (Manchester), Dr.
Phil (Marburg), Henry Simon Professor of German: German and Germanic
linguistics, especially inflectional morphology, diachronic phonology
and contrastive semantics; descriptive study of modern German usage;
German dialectology and sociolinguistics.
MATTHEW M. JEFFERIES, B.A., (Sussex), D.Phil, (Oxford), Lecturer:
German history 1890-1918, particularly the relationship of art and
politics, the Werkbund, the Heimatschutz movement and other cultural
reformers.
C. MARGARET C. LITTLER, B.A., Ph.D. (Manchester), Senior Lecturer:
Post-1945 German literature; contemporary women's writing, feminist
theory, and migrant writing.
STEPHEN R. PARKER, B.A. (Leeds), Ph.D. (Manchester), Senior Lecturer:
Literature of the Weimar Republic, especially Die Kolonne; non-Nazi
writing, radio and film in the Third Reich; literary politics in the
GDR, especially Sinn und Form; the sixties in West German Literature;
Peter Huchel's life and work.
JUDITH O. PURVER, M.A., Ph.D. (Cambridge), P.G.C.E. (Manchester),
Senior Lecturer: German Romanticism and the early 19th-century, with
special reference to Joseph von Eichendorff and Ludwig Tieck; German
women writers, c. 1770-c.1830.
RICARDA SCHMIDT, Staatsexamen, Dr. phil (Hannover), Research Fellow:
E.T.A Hoffmann; contemporary women's writing; GDR literature; literary
theory.
During the first three years, all new entrants to higher education
would be expected to do no more than two-thirds of a normal teaching
load and would not be expected to take on any major administrative duties.
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(Dr) Wiebke Brockhaus tel: +44 (0)161 275 3180 (direct line)
Department of German tel: +44 (0)161 275 3182 (secretary)
University of Manchester fax: +44 (0)161 275 3031
Oxford Road
Manchester e-mail: [log in to unmask]
M13 9PL URL: http://www.art.man.ac.uk/german/brockhs.htm
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