Job Description

About the Role

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, seeks to appoint a 1 FTE Lecturer in Digital Cultures for a fixed-term period (1 January 2024 - 30 September 2028) to contribute to the teaching of its Liberal Arts and Modern Languages programmes to cover absence on research leave. Applicants with further specialisms in languages, literature, musicology, or any other discipline within the humanities would be especially welcome.

Duties will include designing, teaching, and assessing undergraduate modules, contributing to MA provision as appropriate, undertaking administrative roles within the Department and the School, participating in admissions and outreach activities, and engaging in scholarship on the subject of teaching and learning of Digital Cultures.

You will be expected to teach on the following modules during the academic year 2023-24 and additional modules in subsequent years:

• SML 4006 Culture and Language,
• LIB 5054 Cultural Encounters in Theory and Practice,
• and LIB 5203 Digital Culture and Society.

In subsequent years, you will be expected to teach a module on Music, Power and Politics, to contribute to the supervision of final year undergraduate research projects, and to develop your own final year module in the field of Digital Cultures.

About You

Candidates will hold a PhD in Digital Cultures or a related subject, or a relevant professional qualification or equivalent professional experience together with the ability to deliver teaching and assessment at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The ability to work constructively and flexibly with colleagues, and good organisational and communicative skills, are also essential.

About the School

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures conducts cutting-edge teaching and research. Further details can be found .

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we\'ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days\' leave per annum, a season ticket loan scheme and a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. We also offer a range of work-life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities (including on-site nursery, Mile End campus only).

The post is 1 FTE and for a fixed-term period, from 1 January 2024 until 30 September 2028. Starting salary is Grade 5, \xc2\xa349,785 per annum pro-rata, inclusive of London Allowance.

Queen Mary\'s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of recruitment for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries to Professor Kathryn Richardson at

To apply, please click the \'apply\' button.

The closing date is 19 September 2023.

Interviews will be held shortly after the closing date.

\xc2\xa349,785 per annum pro-rata, inclusive of London Allowance (Grade 5)

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