The Department of European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin Fall of academic year 2027-2028. We seek a specialist in German Applied Linguistics, with complementary research and teaching in Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Digital Humanities, multilingualism, or language contact in the European context, with the charge of overseeing Germanic Studies graduate student professionalization and directing the lower-division German language program. Duties will include undergraduate teaching (including teaching the Core Curriculum), graduate teaching, research, and service to the department, college, university, and the field.
Applicants must have completed all the requirements for the Ph.D. by time of appointment, or expect to obtain the Ph.D. within a year of joining the faculty as Instructor. Near-native fluency in both German and English is required.
Preferred qualifications include:
The ideal candidate will have an active, data-driven research program in areas such as language acquisition (including lab-based, classroom-based, and digital approaches to research), textual analysis, reading/writing studies, learning theory, outcomes assessment, corpus linguistics, or critical discourse analysis, including research design in their fields; a track record of TA training and supervision (potentially including those in languages other than German, but with a principal focus on Germanic languages); a demonstrated long-term commitment to making and maintaining ties with language teaching on the level of national professional organizations (e.g., AATG, AAUSC, ACTFL, and AAAL) as well as locally (local AATG chapters; campus service in placement, assessment, language events on campus); the ablity to contribute to and offer courses for the Texas Language Center (TLC) Portfolio Certificate in Language Teaching / Language Program Coordination.
To apply, upload a letter of interest, CV, names and contact information for three recommenders, teaching portfolio (including at least three sets of teaching evaluations, at least one of which should be for a lower-division German course), and a writing sample. Additional materials may be requested after the initial review of applications.
Applications must be received no later than November 23, 2026.
Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience and qualifications. Position funding is subject to budget availability.
For further information, please contact:
Marc Pierce, Search Committee Chair
mpierc@austin.utexas.edu
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