Uncategorized – CREEES Professional Resources Forum

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

Acad. Job: Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Language and Literature 2025-2026 (Colby College)

Deadline: Open Until Filled; Posted January 31, 2025

The Department of German and Russian at Colby College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Russian Language, Literature and Culture for the academic year 2025-2026, to begin July 1, 2025. This is a four-course teaching position (two courses in the fall and two in the spring). Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the date of appointment and have native or near-native fluency in Russian and English.

The successful candidate should have significant teaching experience across the language sequence and be prepared to contribute to the interconnected cultural programming. While the specialization is open, preference will be given to interdisciplinary scholars who express a readiness to teach a broadly appealing course on Russian civilization in English. Promise of ongoing scholarly engagement is an advantage. Candidates should demonstrate a strong interest in liberal arts education including evidence of a commitment to the value of diversity and experience with inclusive teaching. For more information on the Russian Program, see the Russian Program website.

February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

Acad. Job: Russian Language Lecturer (UC Santa Barbara)

Deadline: January 30, 2026

The Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara invites applications for a qualified lecturer to direct its Russian program and teach Russian language courses.

Lecturers are not expected to engage in research, but staying up to date in research about second language acquisition is welcome. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values at UC Santa Barbara. Our excellence relies on faculty, students, and staff who share our commitment to these values. Our program is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through teaching and service.

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024

Special Agent – Linguists/Foreign Language Background (FBI)

Deadline: January 24, 2025

Job Posting: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/772595900

FBI Special Agents apply their professional expertise and unique skill sets to their work every day. Many have foreign language/linguistics backgrounds and use them to interview victims, translate during a suspect interrogation or testify in court. Language skills and cultural knowledge, specifically in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Farsi, Russian, Somali, Uzbek, Korean or another language are highly sought after by the FBI. All applicants must pass the FBI’s Foreign Language Test Battery.

October 24, 2024October 24, 2024

Acad. Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Yiddish Literature & Culture (University of Wisconsin)

Deadline: December 2, 2024

The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ at the University of Wisconsin – Madison invites applications for a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are seeking scholars with an active research program in the field of Yiddish literature/culture with the demonstrated ability to teach Yiddish language and at the university level. The selected candidate will be committed to advancing an innovative research agenda, to working with colleagues to develop a Yiddish language sequence, and to supporting a robust Yiddish studies curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

August 8, 2024August 8, 2024

Job: Foreign Language Instructor (Central Intelligence Agency)

Deadline: September 30, 2024

As a Foreign Language Instructor, you will deliver programs that provide intelligence professionals with the foreign language communications skills and cross-cultural awareness they need to live and work abroad effectively or to perform other language-related duties. Foreign Language Instructors apply the latest instructional methodologies to meet highly customized student needs. You will also complete a language proficiency testing certification to conduct and rate language proficiency tests in three modalities: reading, speaking, and listening. In addition, you may be asked to provide a variety of language support services worldwide.

February 16, 2024February 16, 2024

ASEEES Book Prize Nominations

Deadline: April 15, 2024

ASEEES is now accepting nominations to its annual book prizes, which will be presented during the 2024 ASEEES Convention.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO ALL BOOK PRIZE COMPETITIONS:
• The publication date inside the book must be 2023
• The book must be a monograph, preferably by a single author, or by no more than two authors
• The book must be originally published in English
• Textbooks, collections, translations (including self-translations/authorial translations), bibliographies, and reference works are ineligible
• Self-published works are ineligible

For detailed eligibility requirements for each book prize, please see http://aseees.org/programs/aseees-prizes

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024

CFP: Pushkin and Ukraine (Pushkin Review)

Deadline: March 1, 2024

The peer-reviewed journal Pushkin Review invites submissions for a special issue devoted to Pushkin and Ukraine. Potential contributors should send a draft title and abstract (200 words max) to the Guest Editor of the special issue, Valeria Sobol (vsobol@illinois.edu), by March 1, 2024. With the aim of fostering open scholarly discussion of difficult and fraught issues, we seek to publish adventurous new work on Pushkin in Ukraine and Ukraine in Pushkin. Topics and approaches might include:

– perception and reception of Pushkin in Ukraine;
– Pushkin’s notions, depictions and uses of Ukraine and Ukrainian language and culture;
– Pushkin as a Soviet institution in Ukraine;
– the “Pushkinopad” phenomenon;
– Ukrainian contemporaries of Pushkin;
– Pushkin, colonization and decolonization;
– political and military uses of Pushkin’s image and myth in Ukrainian-Russian relations and the current war;
– Pushkin and propaganda;
– Pushkin and race in the Ukrainian context;
– Pushkin’s milieu and Ukraine;
– oral history of the Ukrainian experience of Pushkin.

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023

Graduate Program: Slavonic Studies (University of Oxford)

Deadline: January 5, 2024

The Slavonic sub-faculty at the University of Oxford welcomes enquiries and applications for its DPhil (PhD) program; the Modern Languages MSt. and MPhil (with specialization in Russian, or Russian+another language); and the MSt. and MPhil in Slavonic Studies. Applications wishing to be considered for funding should be submitted by 5 January 2024; the final deadline for applications is 1 March 2024. Further information on applications and funding is available at:
https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/graduate/how-to-apply

November 17, 2023November 17, 2023

Assistant or Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies (Carnegie Mellon University)

Deadline: December 1, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of History seeks to appoint a tenure-track scholar as the inaugural Askwith Family Assistant or Associate Professor in Holocaust Studies. We invite applications from historians of the Holocaust who can teach courses in Jewish history and the history of the regions or thematic topics they study. PhD required by the date of appointment (July, 2024). The successful candidate will teach both graduate and undergraduate students in their areas of specialty on a 2/2 semester course load.

October 9, 2023October 9, 2023

JOB VACANCY IN YEREVAN: Academic Director at Yerevan Center for International Education

Deadline: October 23, 2023

The Yerevan Center for International Education of the European University at Saint Petersburg (YCIE/E-Center) is seeking a qualified individual to serve as its inaugural Academic Director. The YCIE is an academic hub supporting conferences, lectures, events, educational programs, and networking opportunities in Yerevan, Armenia. YCIE serves as a link connecting the Armenian scholarly and professional communities with those in Eurasia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and beyond. To qualify, A candidate must have at least 2-3 years of experience in academic registration. A Ph.D. In a relevant field of the humanities or social sciences is required (degree must be in hand by January, 2024). The successful candidate will be a self-starter, with strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to work well with diverse international populations. Full-time residence in Yerevan or its close environs beginning no later than June 1, 2024, and preferably earlier, will be required.

Applicants should send a cover letter, an updated Curriculum Vitae or resume, and a list of three references to: YCIEAcademicSearch@gmail.com. To receive full consideration, applications should be received no later than October 23, 2023. The projected start date for this position is January 2024.