Job Location: Brussels Region, Belgium
Job Title: Full-Time Academic Position in Linguistics of Romance Languages
Job Rank: Associate Professor

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics

Required Language(s): Italian (ita)
Spanish (spa)

Description:

Specialist in Romance linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology and syntax) with particular skills in Italian and Spanish linguistics. A comparative and applied approach is required.

Area of Research:
Linguistics of romance languages.

Educational and scientific goals:
The successful candidate will be responsible for training students in the Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication – including the supervision and evaluation of dissertations and thesis – in the linguistics of Italian and Spanish in a broad vision of Romance languages.

Courses covered at the time of recruitment:
Linguistique comparée des langues romanes (Bachelor)
Linguistique de l’italien (Master)
Linguistique de l’espagnol (Master)

These courses are primarily intended for students of Romance Languages and Literatures as well as students of Modern Languages and Literatures. In a second phase, the successful candidate will be responsible for another course primarily intended for students of Translation and Interpretation:

Linguistique appliquée des langues romanes (lexicologie, terminologie, traduction) (Master)

Application Deadline: 30-Jan-2025
Web Address for Applications: https://jobs.ulb.be/job-invite/1385/?isInternalUser=true
Application Instructions:
For any connection problems or questions about our application, consult our FAQ : https://www.ulb.be/medias/fichier/e-recrut-mode-d-emploi-candidat-en-_1734942996246-pdf

For more information, please contact prof. Claudio Gigante ([email protected] ).

- Applicants should have at least 4 years of research experience at the time of their recruitment.
- Post-doctoral experience and an excellent scientific record are a plus.
- Exchange periods outside of the applicants’ home institution (during or after their PhD) will be taken into consideration when evaluating applications.
- Applicants must be able to teach in French, Italian and Spanish.
- Teaching experience at university level is an advantage.

Your application will consist of a Curriculum Vitae(if you wish, a standard CV can be downloaded from the website: https: //www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/emplois-academiques-et-scientifiques-cv-type) and a document completed using the template available at this URL address https://www.ulb.be/fr/documents-officiels/1e-applic-form-acad-tps-plein-docx. This template structures your application by including the following elements:
- an application letter
- a 7,000-character report (4 pages) presenting the applicant’s research activities and a research project, including how these will integrate into ULB’s research teams
- a teaching dossier including a 7,000-character report (4 pages) on the applicant's previous teaching activities and a teaching project for the first five years in this position; these must be relevant to the faculty and to the teaching profiles for the programmes to which the applicant is to contribute
- a note on the applicant's international achievements and projects (no more than 4 pages)
- the names and e-mail addresses of five referees (respecting the gender balance) who may be contacted by those in charge of evaluating applications. These referees should not have conflicts of interest because of family or emotional ties.

Incomplete applications or applications that do not use the template provided will not be examined by the selection committee.
Contact Information:
Claudio Gigante
Email: [email protected]