Tenure Track

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At the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna the position of a

Tenure-Track Professorship
for the field of
Modern German Literature with a specialization in popular culture and young adult culture

(full-time position) is to be filled.

The successful candidate should represent the subject of Modern German Literature in research and in teaching. He*she should also offer relevant teaching content for teacher training. Desired focal points are contemporary literature, pop culture, pop literature and youth literature with regard to their media formats, especially digital formats of contemporary literature.

The University of Vienna is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at ). The University strives to increase the share of women in professorial positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.

Application documents:
Please submit a single PDF document named “LastName_FirstName.pdf” to tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at containing the following information (in German or English).
1. Cover Sheet and Table of Contents
2. Letter of motivation
3. Academic curriculum vitae
o key terms that best describe your own research interests
o education, degrees (incl. information about the PhD granting institution and the exact date DD.MM.YYYY when the PhD was conferred)
o professional experience
o applicable parental leave, family or other care times, …
o scientific or scholarly “esteem factors” (e.g. experiences as a publisher, functions in research societies or programme committees)
o previous and current cooperation partners
o complete list of acquired third-party funded projects as principal investigator (role, subject, duration, funding agency, funding volume), and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
o list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
o list of courses taught
o list of theses supervised
4. List of publications
o link to own ORCID iD record
o if common in your field of research provide information about indexation in data bases such as SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, citations resp. book reviews received or other indicators of scientific quality/international visibility (best paper award, etc.) The University of Vienna is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at ). The University strives to increase the share of women in professorial positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.

Application documents:
Please submit a single PDF document named “LastName_FirstName.pdf” to tenuretrack.personal@univie.ac.at containing the following information (in German or English).
1. Cover Sheet and Table of Contents
2. Letter of motivation
3. Academic curriculum vitae
o key terms that best describe your own research interests
o education, degrees (incl. information about the PhD granting institution and the exact date DD.MM.YYYY when the PhD was conferred)
o professional experience
o applicable parental leave, family or other care times, …
o scientific or scholarly “esteem factors” (e.g. experiences as a publisher, functions in research societies or programme committees)
o previous and current cooperation partners
o complete list of acquired third-party funded projects as principal investigator (role, subject, duration, funding agency, funding volume), and, if applicable, of inventions/patents
o list of most important scientific talks (max. 10)
o list of courses taught
o list of theses supervised
4. List of publications
o link to own ORCID iD record
o if common in your field of research provide information about indexation in data bases such as SCIE, SSCI, AHCI, citations resp. book reviews received or other indicators of scientific quality/international visibility (best paper award, etc.)