Category: Academic Jobs

Deadline: October 9, 2023

Hamilton College’s Department of German, Russian, Italian, and Arabic invites applications for a tenure-track position in Russian Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning July 1,2024. The Department seeks candidates of native or near-native fluency in Russian whose research interests focus on pre-Soviet literature, arts, or translation.

The Russian Studies program at Hamilton consists of two language and literature faculty, one historian, and two political scientists. Our program requires students to study history and contemporary issues in addition to language, and to complete a comprehensive senior project. Students are able to work closely with professors who are leaders in the field. For further information, see https://my.hamilton.edu/academics/departments/Russian-Studies

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Deadline: October 15, 2023

To apply: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25432

The Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies invites applications for a Full Time Russian Language instructor, beginning January 1, 2024 for three semesters (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025). Course load is five courses per year to be taught in person, ranging from introductory to advanced Russian language and including a course on literature, film, culture taught in English translation (five courses a year total; 3-2 load).

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Deadline: September 30, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenure-track position in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies with emphasis on Ukraine. We welcome applications from scholars whose research explores any topic within that area through media, film, or literature and includes Ukraine. The position will start at the rank of Assistant Professor (100% FTE, on a 9-month service basis, with a 2-2 course load). Successful candidates will be prepared to teach a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and oversee Ukrainian language instruction. Candidates with a documented commitment to working with students or faculty from groups historically marginalized or underrepresented in the field through teaching and mentoring are especially encouraged to apply. 

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Deadline: October 15, 2023

The Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego invites applications for a beginning- to advanced-assistant professorship in comparative Slavic East European and/or Eurasian literatures and cultures. We seek a colleague to teach, and design courses in the literature, film, and/or culture of Eastern Europe and/or Central Asia. Candidates will also be expected to conduct and publish research in peer-reviewed academic venues, advise undergraduate and graduate thesis projects, and contribute to departmental and university-level service.

For more information, and to apply, please see our call for applications: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03682

Deadline: October 15, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position beginning in September 2024. We are seeking an enthusiastic, creative, and productive scholar and teacher who would complement and enrich the research and teaching agenda of our present faculty in the areas of gender studies and sexuality and / or Eastern European Studies. Among secondary desirable areas of specialization are translation studies, drama/theater/performance, digital humanities, and cultural studies.

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Deadline: October 15, 2023

The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences announces a competition for the position of post-doc in the project “Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analysing and Disclosing of Ukrainian Testimonies of the 2022 War”.

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Deadline: October 14, 2023

he Van Hunnick History Department of the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, is seeking to hire one tenure-track assistant professor in the history of modern Eurasia/Russian Empire/Soviet Union, including its constituent lands and peoples, beginning August 2024. We are looking for applications from a broad range of scholars, including those whose work decenters the imperial metropole, focuses on understudied regions and peoples, and/or crosses conventional chronological and geographical boundaries. Academic fluency in at least one regional language in addition to Russian is preferred.

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Deadline: October 23, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago is conducting an open-rank search to fill a tenure-track position in literary/cultural studies to begin July 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. We invite applications from scholars who are open to critical reorientation in our field, and who approach our region with a transnational view of its literatures and cultures. We especially encourage applications from candidates whose areas of interest include one or more of the following: environmental and post-colonial perspectives; creative practice; pre-1840s literature and culture; historically under-represented Slavic, East European and Eurasian cultures. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor commensurate with experience and qualifications. The position includes research progress, a standard teaching load of four courses per year at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as usual advising and service requirements.

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Deadline: September 29, 2023

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a tenure-track position in Soviet and Post-Soviet Cultural Studies with emphasis on Ukraine. We welcome applications from scholars whose research explores any topic within that area through media, film, or literature and includes Ukraine. The position will start at the rank of Assistant Professor (100% FTE, on a 9-month service basis, with a 2-2 course load). Successful candidates will be prepared to teach a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and oversee Ukrainian language instruction. Candidates with a documented commitment to working with students or faculty from groups historically marginalized or underrepresented in the field through teaching and mentoring are especially encouraged to apply.

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