Job Description

The role

The School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol seeks to appoint an open-ended, full-time Lecturer in Latin American Studies / Spanish (Pathway 1) from 3 January 2024. The successful candidate will bring research expertise in Latin American Studies or Spanish, broadly understood, to complement and contribute to the depth and breadth of the existing interdisciplinary team. This might include any period of history, any geographical region of the world where Spanish is spoken, and disciplinary backgrounds from geography, digital humanities and sociology to linguistics, visual culture and literature. They will be able to offer research-led teaching in their area of Latin American Studies or Spanish and to contribute to teaching and administration within the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and the School of Modern Languages. They will possess a PhD in Latin American Studies or Spanish or a cognate field by the time of the appointment. The candidate will be fluent in the Spanish language.

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute fully to the teaching of our undergraduate programmes in Spanish. They will teach on existing units on Latin American or Spanish culture and develop their own new research-led units based on their scholarly expertise. They may also be expected to contribute to teaching Spanish-English translation and to the delivery of schoolwide units within the School of Modern Languages, which explore culture and history in comparative and transnational perspective, as well as to our MA programmes in Comparative Literatures and Cultures and/or Translation, and postgraduate research supervision.

You should apply if

The successful applicant will have a strong, well-developed research profile at or beyond doctoral level, with an established record of, or evidence of the potential for, high-quality publishing commensurate with the applicant\'s career stage. They will pursue research of the highest international quality in their field of specialism. They will have an established record of, or evidence of the potential for, external grant capture. While in post, they will seek to develop this. They will have demonstrated the ability to deliver research-led teaching in their chosen field, or to have demonstrated the potential to do so.
Candidates should upload a cover letter and their CV onto our e-recruit system, indicating the contact details of three referees. We will request writing samples when we invite short-listed candidates, so there is no need to submit anything else at this stage.
Timescale of appointment:
Application deadline: 2 October 2023
Anticipated interview date: October 2023

Additional information

For informal enquiries contact: Matthew Brown, Head of Subject,

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives - particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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