Vacancy: Assistant Professor of Gender Studies (0,8 fte) at Utrecht University
Utrecht University
Faculty of Humanities
Utrecht University is one of the largest and most prominent universities in Europe. The Faculty of Humanities, with nearly 7.000 students and 900 staff members, offers an inspiring and dynamic working environment. Our research and education programmes focus on language, culture, history, arts, literature, media, philosophy and theology. Our strongest points are interdisciplinary and international collaboration, excellent quality of research and education, and the use of modern media. The research programmes are organised within four institutes:
· Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL-OTS)
· Research Institute of History and Culture (OGC)
· Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute of Philosophy (ZENO)
· Research Institute of Theological and Religious Studies (INTEGON)
The Utrecht University Graduate School of Humanities guarantees an outstanding quality of education programmes for Research Master students as well as PhD students.
Media- and Culture Studies
The department Media- and Culture Studies (MCW) organises and contributes to courses in the Bachelor's programmes Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Communication and Information Studies and Musicology as well as to the Master's programmes Comparative Women’s Studies, Film and Television Studies, Arts Policy and Management, Music Studies, New Media and Digital Culture, and Theatre Studies.
MCW is characterized by an interdisciplinary environment, where a group of young, enthousiastic academics work in a dynamic and inspiring setting. In principle, all teachers are capable of teaching in a variety of courses in the Bachelor’s Programmes of the department.
Gender Studies hosts courses at the BA-level, a one-year MA, a two-year Research MA, a two-year Erasmus Mundus MA and a PhD programme.
At the Department of Media- and Culture Studies there is a vacancy for an: Assistant Professor of Gender Studies (0,8 fte)
Job description
We are seeking an experienced senior lecturer/researcher. As a teacher you are required to be broadly deployable within the framework of interdisciplinary gender studies with a specific emphasis on gender and ethnicity, contemporary feminist cultural studies and/or feminist science studies, in particular on Research MA and PhD-levels.
Additionally, the candidate’s research field is located within feminist cultural studies, in particular in relation to psychoanalysis, semiotics and poststructuralism, and/or the terrain of feminist science studies.
Candidates applying for the position are required to have extensive experience within relevant international networks, interdisciplinary (teaching) practices and are required to have published in abovementioned fields.
Qualifications
For this position we seek a candidate holding a PhD degree in feminist cultural studies and/or science studies with extensive teaching experience (including curriculum development) and managerial experience.
Evidently, candidates are required to have excellent didactic skills. The main teaching language in the Gender Studies Department is English.
Additionally, we maintain teaching and research connections with the departments of literary studies, art policy and art management, language and culture studies, and new media and digital culture. The candidate for the position of assistant professor may also be required to lecture at these departments from a gender specific angle.
Non-Dutch speaking candidates are required to reach fluency in Dutch within two years of appointment.
Terms of employment
We offer a 0,8 fte appointment for 2 years (renewable, subject to performance review), with the possibility of tenure upon first renewal.
According to University regulations (Functies, Loopbanen en Waardering (FLOW)) you are expected to obtain basic teaching qualifications within this period of time.
Depending on your experience and overall record, your monthly gross salary will be minimally € 3,195.- (scale 11 according to the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities) and maximally € 4,970.- (scale 12), based on a full-time position. The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave and flexible employment conditions.
Further details
For additional queries please contact Prof R. Buikema by e-mail: R.L.Buikema@???.
For more information you can consult the following websites:
www.uu.nl/gw/ciw,
www.uu.nl/gw/tft and
www.genderstudies.nl
How to apply
Those wishing to apply for this position are invited to submit their written application, including a curriculum vitae and a list of publications before June 21, 2010 to the Personnel Department: humanitiesjobs.gw@??? or by post: attn. of Mrs. M.H. de Windt, Kromme Nieuwegracht 46, 3512 HJ Utrecht, The Netherlands. Please refer to the vacancy number 681031 as well as to the medium where you found this advertisement.
Interviews with selected candidates will take place in July 2010.
