Two-year position (50%) TV-L EG 13, starts November 1, 2022

Deadline: September 1, 2022

Europa-Universität Flensburg is seeking to fill the following vacancy in the Department of English and American Studies (https://jobs.uni-flensburg.de/jobposting/0e31766184eab0f106133765692e6e8a9c2fac1a0)

Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in”) in American Studies, salary grade TV-L 13 (50%). This is a two-year position, starting on November 1, 2022.

Prerequisites include a good or very good MA degree in American Studies, as well as native (or near-native) speaker competency in English. Furthermore, a current research project in fields such as Indigenous Studies, minority studies, transnational American studies, medical humanities, seriality, surveillance studies, or cultural memory studies is desirable, as are academic editorial experiences and university teaching experience and administrative knowledge.

Duties include editorial assistance for the journal Amerikastudien / American Studies, teaching (2,5 SWS) in American literary and cultural studies, as well as research cooperation in the projects the American Studies section at Europa-Universität Flensburg.

Europa-Universität Flensburg seeks to promote employee diversity with respect to the biographies and competencies of its staff. Applications from persons with a migration background are explicitly welcomed. Severely disabled applicants with adequate qualifications will be given preference. The university also strives to obtain a balanced gender ratio in all occupational groups. EUF expressly renounces the use of CV photographs and kindly asks applicants to refrain from providing one.

For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes, Dept. of English and American Studies (birgit.daewes@uni-flensburg.de) or Inken Alsen (alsen@uni-flensburg.de). Applications must be received by EUF no later than September 1, 2022 via our online application site: https://jobs.uni-flensburg.de/de/jobposting/0e31766184eab0f106133765692e6e8a9c2fac1a0/apply