Dear Professor,
Would you please clarify if the closing date is, in fact, 17
April? Should it read 17 May, instead?
Dear colleagues,
Some further details,
as promised, about the permanent lectureship and the
one-year contract
lectureship in the Department of Italian at Trinity
College, Dublin.
These have now been advertised in the newspapers.
The closing date
for applications is 19 April (=NEXT FRIDAY!).
The salary range is as
follows:
17,878-44,164 Irish pounds per annum (an Irish pound is
currently worth
about three-quarters of an English pound). Appointment
will be made within
the salary range 17,878-25,227 per annum at a point
to accord with
qualifications and expertise to date.
The job
description remains unaltered (except that I typed "included"
for
"excluded" last time, which DOES make a slight
difference....
"We will be looking for proven research ability
in any of the following
areas: post-renaissance drama, eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries,
twentieth century, women writers. Other areas
of expertise are NOT
EXCLUDED. Particular emphasis will be placed
upon innovative methods
of language teaching."
Application
forms and further particulars are obtainable from:
Establishment
Officer
Staff Office
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Tel.
353-1-608-1678/FAX 353-1-677-2169
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Some
information about the Department and what we do can be found at
http://www.tcd.ie/Italian
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Italian at Trinity
Trinity College has some 13,000
students spread over six Faculties. It is
situated in the centre of
Dublin, with many fine buildings and a copyright
library which houses the
largest book collection in Ireland, including good
holdings in
Italian.
Trinity's Department of Italian, which dates from 1776, is
the oldest in
Ireland or Britain. Over 140 students study Italian in two
four-year degree
programmes: a joint honour degree known as the
Two-Subject Moderatorship,
and the European Studies degree. Most students
start as beginners
in Italian. There are SOCRATES exchange programmes
with several Italian
universities.
The Department currently has
three permanent members of staff (one
Associate Professor and two Senior
Lecturers), one contract lecturer, an
Italian Government sponsored
lecturer, a language assistant, and a
part-time Executive Officer. The
Head of Department is Professor Corinna
Salvadori Lonergan. The permanent
appointment now advertised will replace
our contract post at the end of
the current academic year. The temporary
appointment is to allow one of
our Senior Lecturers to take a year's study
leave. Staff teach an average
of 9 or 10 hours per week in a 24-week
teaching year: roughly half of
this is language work, while the other half
is concerned with literature
and other cultural or historical topics.
Secretarial support is
necesssarily limited, but staff members are provided
with computer
equipment for teaching, administration and research.
Recent
developments in our course structure include an increased emphasis
on
options which students choose from a list of topics in
Italian
literature, language and society; the introduction of videos and
computers
in language teaching at junior and senior levels; and the
availability of
optional courses in technology awareness and
linguistics.
The New Posts
The continuing permanent members of
staff have particular competence in
medieval and Renaissance literature
and contemporary Italian literature and
society. With the new permanent
appointment the Department will consolidate
its strengths in the areas of
post-Renaissance drama, the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries,
twentieth century, women writers; the contract
lecturer will teach mostly
in the modern area.
The Department expects a good standard of
language performance, and
teaching methods are kept under constant
review. Lecturers are expected to
have a native or near-native level of
competence in Italian. There is
considerable expertise in language
learning among our colleagues; Trinity
teaches a wide range of languages,
and the Centre for Language and
Communication Studies provides research
and active support in this field.
The College's European Studies
programme also places a strong emphasis on
language
competence.
Lecturers are expected to teach both language and
literature courses, and
to offer option courses in areas of special
interest. Some of the teaching
is thus related to one's personal
interests and research, but one may be
called upon to contribute to
various parts of the degree programme. In
addition to normal contact
hours, staff members provide supervision for
Senior Sophister
dissertations. All lecturers are expected to share in the
administrative
work of the Department, including SOCRATES exchanges,
European Studies
contributions, and other projects.
The Department has a tradition of
open discussion at both formal and
informal meetings; new ideas are
welcomed and colleagues are encouraged to
bring their own perspectives to
the future development of Italian in
Trinity.
The Selection
Procedure
Candidates shortlisted for interview will be invited to
present a short
paper on a research topic and to demonstrate the teaching
of a language
topic.
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Cormac O
Cuilleanain
Department of Italian
Trinity College, Dublin 2,
Ireland
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