Early Career Lecturer in Early Modern French

St John’s admits around five to seven undergraduates in French each year to read the four-year Modern Languages course, including joint schools involving Classics, Modern History, English, Philosophy and Middle Eastern Languages.

The successful candidate will join a vigorous Modern Languages team in the College including Official Fellows in French (prof. Nikolaj Lübecker) and German (Professor Barry Murnane), Specialist Language Teachers in French and German, College Lecturers in French Linguistics, Russian, Spanish, Italian and German. The post offers the opportunity to develop skills in research, teaching and academic administration in a supportive environment.

The successful candidate will be required: to provide up to an average of 8 hours of teaching (tutorials and classes) during each week of full term, as directed by the Senior Tutor and Tutor in French. Candidates must be able to teach the Early Modern Literature (1530-1800) paper (Paper VII) and the pre-nineteenth century part of the Modern Literature (1715 to the present) paper (Paper VIII) together with appropriate Prescribed Authors (Paper X). They will also be expected to teach the pre-nineteenth century part of the first-year literature syllabus and French to English translation (see prelims and FHS handbooks).

The salary will be 1.0 FTE paid at the equivalent of University grade 7.1 currently £38,674 per annum including a pensionable Oxford University Weighting payment which will be paid in equal monthly instalments and pro-rated for part time appointments.

There is a teaching and research allowance of £1500 P.A during the period of appointment. There is also an annual entertainment allowance of £358.

For further details on this post and application procedure please see here.

Both applications and references should reach the College no later than 10am on 27th March 2025. Late applications will not be accepted.