One position as Lecturer within English Literature is available at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, Department of Language and Culture. The positon is a temporary appointment from January 1 to December 31.2019.

For further information about the position, please contact Coordinator for English Literature,

Professor Cassandra Falke, phone +47 91 15 40 16, e-mail: Cassandra.falke@uit.noand Head of Department of Language and Culture Eystein Dahl, phone +47 77 64 42 90, email: Eystein.dahl@uit.no.

Affiliation

The position is affiliated with the Department of Language and Culture (ISK). The

Department consists of 75 permanent employees, 10 adjunct professors, and approximately 30 PhD fellows. Additionally, the Department has approximately 35 temporary research and teaching positions. The Department’s core activates are research, teaching, and dissemination within linguistics, literatures, art history, and media and documentation studies.

The Department has a very active and diverse research profile. It houses one of the world’s most accomplished research communities in linguistics. The Department’s research communities within literature, art history, and media and documentation studies are nationally highly competitive. Within English literature and culture, scholars research Indigenous studies, African-American literature and culture, memoir, literary theory, romanticism, Irish literature and culture, American modernism, border poetics, and postcolonial perspectives.

The English literature group is responsible for teaching and the grading of examinations at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including the supervision of Master’s thesis projects. The university offers a one-year program of study in English. In addition, English is a central subject area in the Teacher Education curriculum for grades 8-13.

The appointed Lecturer will have her/his daily workplace at UiT, campus Tromsø.

The position’s field of research and other duties

Candidates should be able to teach a range of courses in English literature and culture. The person hired will collaborate with other instructors to offer large courses introducing students to literary and cultural studies in English and will independently teach more advanced courses in his or her field of research. Applications from researchers in 19th and early 20th century literatures are particularly welcome.

Qualification requirements

In accordance with the Regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts, the following qualification requirements apply for appointment as lecturer:

• a master’s degree or the equivalent from a university or a university college
• relevant research qualifications above the level of a master’s degree and/or relevant professional practice,

or

• documented recognised artistic activities or development work
• education at the highest level in an artistic field from Norway or equivalent education from abroad or equivalent documented qualifications,

and

• documented competence in relevant educational theory and practice based on training or on teaching and supervision. In exceptional cases, practical teaching competence may be assessed as equal to formal teaching competence.
• It is preferable that the applicant has a Norwegian doctorate or equivalent qualifications.

Teaching will take place in English, but a candidate with competence in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language is preferred. Personal suitability will be taken into consideration.

Required teaching competence / basic pedagogical competence

All applicants for teaching and research positions are encouraged to document their teaching competence by attaching a pedagogical portfolio to their application. (Cf. section 4.5 of Supplementary regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research positions at UiT.)

An educational folder is typically 15-20 pages long and will include:

• a one-page statement of teaching philosophy stating the principles one´s teaching is based on
• documentation of various types of teaching activities that show planning, implementation and assessment, such as syllabi, evaluations of classes, and lists of courses taught with course descriptions.

For further information on pedagogical portfolio, consult the webpage Result here.

Working conditions

The successful candidate must be willing to engage him/herself in the ongoing development of their discipline and the university as a whole.

At UiT The Arctic University of Norway the distribution of working hours is flexible and distributed on a case by case basis. As a general principle, Lecturers are expected to spend up to 20% of their time on R&D work and 80 % on teaching, after time spent on other duties has been deducted. As a general norm, the time resources spent on administrative duties constitutes 5 % for academic staff in these job categories. For further information, please consult Retningslinjer for fordeling av arbeidstid for ansatte i undervisnings- og forskerstillinger (in Norwegian).

We offer

• A stimulating working environment
• Good welfare benefits
• Good pension benefits under the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund Scheme

The remuneration for Lecturers is in accordance with State salary scale code 1009.

A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted.

Assessment

Because this is a temporary position that needs to be filled as soon as possible, a simplified assessment process will be conducted. When assessing the applicants, evaluators will place more emphasis on teaching qualifications than research qualifications.

The best qualified applicants will be selected for interviews. The interview shall among other things aim to clarify the applicant’s personal suitability for the position.

Application

The application must be submitted electronically via the application form available on www.jobbnorge.no.

The application should include the following attachments:

• letter of application
• CV (containing a complete overview of education, professional training, and relevant work experience including a list of courses taught)
• documentation of teaching qualifications in the form of a teaching portfolio (recommended)
• transcripts of records and diploma supplements for completed degrees
• list of 2-3 academic referees, including contact details (name, relation to applicant, e-mail address and phone number)
• list of publications and description of these (see below). The list should contain the following information:

1. author(s), title of work
2. for articles: the name of the journal and volume, first and last page of the article, year of publication

• for books or other independent publications: publisher, place of print, year of publication, number of pages

With the list of applications, the applicant should provide a description of his/her academic production, indicating which works are the most relevant in relation to the announced position, and therefore should be emphasized in the assessment. The remaining listed works should be described briefly in order to demonstrate the depth of the production.

For further information, applicants should consult the supplementary regulations concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research positions at UiT and the regulation concerning appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts.

Questions concerning the organisation of the working environment, such as the physical state of the place of employment, health service, possibility for flexible working hours, part time, etc. may be directed to the telephone reference in this announcement.

UiT’s HR policy objectives emphasizes diversity, and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of gender, functional ability and national or ethnic background.

UiT is an IW (Inclusive Workplace) enterprise, and will make the necessary adaptations in order to facilitate for employees with reduced functional ability.

Personal data given in an application or CV will be processed in accordance with the Act relating to the processing of personal data (the Personal Data Act). In accordance with Section 25 subsection 2 of the Freedom of Information Act, the applicant may request not to be registered on the public list of applicants. However, the University may nevertheless decide to publish the applicant’s name. The applicant will receive advance notification in the event of such publication.

We are looking forward to reveiving you application.

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