Boston University’s DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES & LITERATURES invites applications for a renewable full-time Senior Lecturer (non-tenure track) in Russian and pre-modern East Slavic literature beginning July 1, 2023. The successful candidate’s responsibilities will include teaching six courses per academic year in Russian literature and culture, medieval and modern, Comparative literature, immigrant literature, translation studies, and with one course in the CAS Core Curriculum, a liberal arts learning community for undergraduates whose shared undertaking is to discuss great works that meet the challenge of our present moment. The candidate will be expected to contribute to BU’s Comparative Literature program and the department’s MA program in literary translation in developing curriculum and collaborating closely with faculty across the various programs of the College of Arts & Sciences. 

Required Skills

Requirements include an PhD in medieval East Slavic literature or a related field; native or near-native command of Russian and English; and experience teaching at the University level in a North American setting. 

Please submit the following materials via HTTPS://ACADEMICJOBSONLINE.ORG/AJO/JOBS/24008.

1. Letter of application (including some reflections on your approach to teaching) 
2. CV
3. Teaching portfolio (please include: two sample syllabi; two sets of course evaluations (if available); link to a teaching demo; diversity statement addressing how your teaching and/or professional activity could contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion).
4. Three letters of recommendation

Please address questions to Yuri Corrigan, Convener of Russian in the Department of World Languages & literatures (ycorriga@bu.edu). Preliminary interviews will take place over Zoom.

Preference given to applications received by February 3, 2023

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Required Experience

Requirements include an PhD in medieval East Slavic literature or a related field; native or near-native command of Russian and English; and experience teaching at the University level in a North American setting. 

Please submit the following materials via HTTPS://ACADEMICJOBSONLINE.ORG/AJO/JOBS/24008.

1. Letter of application (including some reflections on your approach to teaching) 
2. CV
3. Teaching portfolio (please include: two sample syllabi; two sets of course evaluations (if available); link to a teaching demo; diversity statement addressing how your teaching and/or professional activity could contribute to diversity, equity and inclusion).
4. Three letters of recommendation

Please address questions to Yuri Corrigan, Convener of Russian in the Department of World Languages & literatures (ycorriga@bu.edu). Preliminary interviews will take place over Zoom.

Preference given to applications received by February 3, 2023

#LI-DNP