Dear Colleagues
Please see below (or in more readable form at http://www.unijobs.co.uk/show.php?title=_9668) an exciting opportunity for a Chair in Art History and Visual Culture housed within Modern Languages at Exeter. Please pass on as appropriate.
All best,
Chloe
Chair in Art History and Visual Culture (Modern Languages)
Job details
Date posted 15/11/2012
Application closing date 19/12/2012
Location Exeter
Salary Competitive Salary
Package Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme, car lease scheme and relocation package (if applicable)
Job category/type Academic
Job description The College of Humanities
The above full-time permanent post is available from 1st September 2013 at the latest.
The University of Exeter has ambitious plans for growth. Capital projects to the value of GBP 275 million pounds will, by the end of 2012, transform our already beautiful Streatham campus into something that is truly world-class.
We are looking for a leading international figure with the ability to attract world-class academics to her/his research groups. Applicants will be innovative researchers with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications.
Art History and Visual Culture as a named area at Exeter is a new development, designed to focus the existing research interest in the University, currently spread across different departments and research groups in the College of Humanities, and to provide new undergraduate and postgraduate possibilities. The successful applicant will work with the core staff responsible for the delivery of the Art History and Visual Culture programmes and will also collaborate with colleagues in other areas of the College to enhance the profile of research in Art History and Visual Culture.
The Department of Modern Languages at Exeter is one of the UK's leading and most respected centres for research and teaching in French, German, Hispanic Studies (including Catalan and Portuguese), Italian, and Russian. We also offer Mandarin Chinese within the department. Our research ranges across a wide variety of disciplines including Art History, European Literature and Culture, Film, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Sexuality and Gender, Translation, and Visual Culture, and from the medieval to the contemporary. As well as covering the cultures of major European nations, we have substantial expertise in Latin America and Francophone Africa. Our academic staff, supported by a team of language teachers which includes native-speaker teachers, are highly successful in winning prestigious research awards. We are a large yet very friendly department with over thirty internationally excellent research staff. Our total current research and teaching staff numbers sixty-four. We are recruiting 5 further leading researchers to join our team this year.
The Department of Modern Languages at Exeter is currently in the process of establishing a new research centre, Translating Cultures, which unites many research active staff across all our languages. Our staff are also affiliated to a wide range of University research centres including the Centres for Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Intermedia, Interdisciplinary Research in Film Studies, and Medical History. We have around 70 research students registered in the department. Our MA in Translation is a successful and growing programme.
For up-to-date details of all our UG and PG programmes and modules, and further details of the Department of Modern Languages, please see http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/modernlanguages/
Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Sam Smiles, Programme Director for Art History and Visual Culture (tel. +44 (0) 1392 724220, email: [log in to unmask] , or Dr Emma Cayley, Head of Modern Languages (tel: +44 (0) 1392 724387, email: [log in to unmask]). You may also wish to consult our web site http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/ for further details of the College.
To view the Job Description and Person Specification document please click here.
The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer which is 'Positive about Disabled People'. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce.
|