CREEES Professional Resources Forum

Deadline: November 1, 2024

The department of Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, California) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in modern Russophone literature. An ideal candidate will also demonstrate expertise in one or more literature and culture of Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Caucasus, or Central Asia. Native or near-native fluency in Russian and English is required; native or near-native fluency in a language related to the candidate’s additional geographic region of expertise is desired. The successful applicant will have Ph.D. in hand by August 2025 and will be expected to teach graduate and undergraduate courses, including courses in the University’s general education program.

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Deadline: November 10, 20204

Assistant or Associate Professor of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies

The East European, Eurasian, and Russian Studies Department at Dartmouth invites applications for a full-time tenure-line appointment as Assistant or Associate Professor. We seek qualified candidates with expertise in the region who will support the ongoing diversification of our curricular offerings and research profile. We are especially interested in applicants who specialize in more than one region/language of Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with a preference for Ukrainian, or the language(s) and cultures of the Russian Federation. The person in this position will be expected to contribute thematic or comparative courses to the EEER curriculum more broadly. Scholars in fields such as 20th-21st century literary and cultural studies, translation studies, comparative literature, sociolinguistics, or those working with other interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome to apply. We seek an innovative and dynamic teacher with experience teaching in U.S. institutions. Applicants should also demonstrate organizational leadership and service to the field appropriate to their career stage.

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Deadline: November 1, 2024

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for the position of Director of the Polish Studies Program, pending budgetary approval. The appointment will be made at the rank of Teaching Assistant Professor and will begin in the fall of 2025. Duties include: (i) teaching Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Polish language, as well as Polish or Polish-comparative literature, cinema, and culture in English at the undergraduate level; and (ii) non-teaching duties include oversight of Polish cultural and outreach activities in accordance with programming goals identified by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Scholarly publication and active participation in national professional associations are encouraged but are not a prerequisite for appointment or renewal. 

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Deadline: October 18, 2024

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (Slavic Department)

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin in September 2025, pending budgetary approval. The area of specialization is fully open and all primary fields of specialization within Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian languages, literatures, and cultures will be considered. We are especially keen to receive applications from candidates whose research traverses our region of study, foregrounding one or more cultural and linguistic communities from the following aggregate groupings: Eastern European; East Central European; South Slavic; Central Asian; Russian and Russophone (including diasporic Russophone); and indigenous Eurasian (including within the Russian Federation). Candidates with additional fields of specialization in such areas as art history; digital humanities; disability studies; film and media studies; music; performance studies; race, ethnicity, and migration studies; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies are particularly welcome.

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Deadline: October 16, 2024

The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-time tenure track faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences in Russian language, literature, and culture. We seek a dynamic, versatile, and broadly interdisciplinary scholar and pedagogue who shows strong potential for future leadership in both the program and the college, who can teach the Russian language at multiple levels, and who can offer a range of courses in translation, for a broad audience of majors and non-majors alike, on 19th, 20th, and 21st-century Russian literature and corollary areas such as film, philosophy, and the intersection of culture and politics. The ability to teach across multiple periods is desirable, as is secondary expertise in other (non-Russian) cultural traditions (including Europe, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Siberia). Initial appointment to this position will be for a term of four years, beginning fall semester of 2025, and will carry the rank of Assistant Professor.

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