Lecturer in Spanish

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22/07/24

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Condiciones económicas 

£45,585 - £51,283 per annum

The post will be within Grade 7 (currently starting at £45,585 per annum) of the University salary scale. 

Descripción 

The Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading is seeking to appoint a full-time Lecturer in Spanish (Teaching Intensive) on a permanent basis, starting in September 2024.

The successful candidate will undertake state-of-the-art language teaching at different levels, including ab initio Spanish language. If any of the desirable criteria apply, their deployment might include teaching activities related to those aspects. They will also participate in outreach, student recruitment, and applicant engagement activities; convene core language modules; support and advise students within the remits of our Academic Tutor scheme.

Requisitos 

The successful candidate will have:

  • a University degree, preferably at MA or PhD level, in Spanish Studies or a cognate discipline
  • experience of teaching Spanish language at university level
  • native or near-native competence in Spanish
  • an excellent command of spoken and written English
  • experience of teaching in a Higher Education institution, preferably in the UK. 

Cómo solicitar 

Apply online.

Interviews will be held: 31/07/2024

 

Observaciones 

The Department of Languages and Cultures sits in the School of Humanities together with the Departments of English Literature, English Language and Applied Linguistics, History, and Classics. It delivers Modern Languages degree programmes (French, German, Italian, and Spanish), and also Joint Honours with subjects such as Management, History, and International Relations. As part of these degree programmes, the Department delivers a suite of culture studies modules, both specific to areas in which the target languages are spoken, as well as comparative modules in film studies, translation studies, history, linguistics, and literature. In our Spanish Studies curriculum, expertise pertaining to the Spanish peninsula is complemented with a strong focus on Latin American Studies.

The Department also comprises the Institution-Wide Language Programme which delivers optional language modules that are taken across the University by undergraduate and postgraduate students. In addition to the four languages mentioned above, the Institution-Wide Language Programme offers Arabic, British Sign Language, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Greek, Japanese, Russian.