University or Organization: University of Konstanz
Department: Linguistics
Job Location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Web Address: https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/en/
Job Title: Professor of Romance Linguistics
Job Rank: Full Professor

Specialty Areas: Morphology; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax

Required Language(s): French (fra)
Italian (ita)
Spanish (spa)
Romance

Description:

Reference No. 2024/225. The Department of Linguistics seeks to fill this position by April 1, 2026.

The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.

Applicants are expected to have an excellent track record in at least one core area of linguistics (phonology, morphology, syntax or semantics), and a second specialization in a further field such as psycholinguistics or historical linguistics. The languages of specialization should be Italian along with one of French or Spanish.

Teaching and supervision obligations extend primarily to the Romance studies programmes (BA, B.Ed. and M.Ed.), as well as to the MA Linguistics, MA Multilingualism, and Doctoral programmes. The willingness to teach courses in the Romance target language is expected. Non-German speakers are expected to be able to teach in German no later than three years after commencing the position.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate academic achievements comparable to the level of the German Habilitation.

Cooperation with existing research initiatives at the Department of Linguistics and within the University more widely is expected.

For further information on the application procedure, please contact Dr. Peter Krause (peter.krause@uni-konstanz.de). For content-related questions, contact Prof. Dr. Georg Kaiser.

In all other aspects, the hiring requirements for professorships follow from § 47 paragraph 1,2 of the Landeshochschulgesetz.

We look forward to receiving your application with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, publication list, list of teaching experience, copies of academic certificates) by 03. December 2024 via our Online Application Portal.

The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity and a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme (https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/equalopportunities/family/dual-career/).

Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact sbv@uni-konstanz.de, + 49 7531 88-4016).

Application Deadline: 03-Dec-2024

Mailing Address for Applications:
Web Address for Applications: https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/en/jobposting/e886b6fe1e678bc226d4431a8ce139197adba2270/apply
Contact Information:
Prof. Dr. Georg Kaiser
Email: georg.kaiser@uni-konstanz.de