Job Description

Full time, fixed term contract


Closing date: 23:59 25th August 2025



The Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading seeks to appoint a fixed-term Lecturer in German (Teaching Intensive, Grade 7 salary scale beginning at 46,735 per annum) for four years, starting 15 September 2025. The successful candidate will undertake high-quality language teaching at different levels, including ab initio and translation-focussed classes, contribute to German culture modules, and contribute content based on German Studies and/or Translation Studies to department-wide comparative modules.


The Department of Languages and Cultures is part of the School of Humanities and delivers core language provision and cultural modules for single and joint honours degree programmes in and with Modern Languages. The Department also delivers optional language modules that are taken by students and staff across the University via the Languages for All Programme. In addition to language modules and language-specific cultural modules, the Department delivers a suite of comparative undergraduate modules in film studies, translation studies, history, and literature.


The successful candidate will have:

a PhD in an area of German Studies or Translation Studies with German experience of teaching German language, culture and/or translation at university level native or near-native competence in German an excellent command of spoken and written English experience of teaching in a Higher Education institution, preferably in the UK.


Interviews will be held: 4 September 2025



Contact Name Melani Schroeter


Contact Job Title Professor, Head of Department


Contact Email address m.schroeter@reading.ac.uk


Alternative Contact Name Daniela La Penna


Alternative Contact Job Title Head of School


Alternative Contact Email address d.lapenna@reading.ac.uk



The University is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce, supports the gender equality Athena SWAN Charter and the Race Equality Charter, and champions LGBT+ equality. We are a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2). Applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements are welcomed and will be considered in line with business needs.