12-hour College Lectureship and Fellowship in French

Applications are invited for appointment to a 12-hour College Lectureship and Fellowship in French, tenable from 1 September 2025 for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of re-appointment to the retiring age.  Applicants should have experience in teaching French either in the Modern and Medieval Languages (MML) Tripos or equivalent, as well as a record of research and publication commensurate with their stage of career.  Preference may be given to candidates with demonstrated interests in either the Renaissance, or Francophone postcolonial contexts, and/or with an ability to offer teaching in one or more of the following papers in the MML tripos: Fr8: Wondrous Forms in the Age of Montaigne; Fr6:  Innovation and Upheaval: deformation and reformulation in the 20th and 21st centuries; Fr12: Ethics and experience: literature, thought, and visual culture of the French-speaking world (1900 to the present)).

For further details about the course specifics see:

https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/undergraduates/mml  

https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/undergraduates/history-and-modern-languages

The successful applicant will assist in supervising and directing studies in MML in the College, including joint degrees (History and Modern Languages), and will participate in the admission of undergraduate students, which includes outreach work.

The College Lectureship is a full-time position, and will require 12 hours per week of College teaching for 20 weeks per year. The starting salary will normally be on Step 7 of the College scale for 12-hour Lecturers, i.e. £57,556 per annum, together with other benefits of College membership.

Application should be made using the online FAS application system:

https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/trinclff/

Further details are available on the College website, click the 'Apply' button above. Applicants should submit a covering letter, a CV, including details of publications and teaching experience, and should also ensure that three referees (at least one from outside Cambridge) have uploaded references to the application system on their behalf before the closing date of Monday 14 April 2025 (23.59 BST).

Interviews will be held on Friday 2 May 2025.

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