Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professorship of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature

Stavros Niarchos Foundation – Bywater and Sotheby Professorship of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages in association with Exeter College 

The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is seeking applications for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation – Bywater and Sotheby Professorship of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. This professorship is associated with a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College.

The Professor will be a member of the Sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek. Ideally you should be able to use your experience and connections in both areas to encourage cross-disciplinary work for mutual benefit. You will be expected to contribute to the inter-faculty Late Antique and Byzantine Studies graduate programme, taking a collaborative approach seeking to foster and encourage links between the various Faculties involved (History, Modern Languages, Classics, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Theology and Religion, and Archaeology) and encourage students from different disciplines to engage across boundaries.

You will be a scholar of the highest international calibre, with an outstanding record of research and publication, capable of creating and maintaining contacts with colleagues and relevant departments in Oxford and other universities in the UK and overseas. You will teach and inspire students at all levels, playing a major role in the supervision, guidance and examination of graduate students in this area. You will be expected to be able to contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching and examination.

You will have special interests in the Byzantine period, but you will be able to teach the Modern Languages undergraduate papers which cover Byzantine and Early Modern Greek literature (up to the 18th century) and supervise undergraduate and graduate work in these areas. Modern Greek specialists who possess a strong and sustained record of academic publication in the field of both Byzantine Studies and Greek language and literature and who are able to demonstrate a record of providing teaching and supervision for relevant Byzantine Language and Literature options are also welcome to apply.

The closing date for applications is 12:00 noon UK time on Monday 27 January 2025. Interviews are expected to be held in March 2025. Informal enquiries may be made in strict confidence to Professor Jonathan Thacker, Chair of the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty Board (jonathan.thacker@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk)

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