Lecturer / Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Department : Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Vacancy ID : 018821
Closing Date : 03-Jan-2023

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.  

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor in Spanish and Latin American Studies with a specialism in Translation Studies, understood as encompassing subfields such as specialised translation practice (professional, commercial, legal, scientific, technical, medical and/or literary translation); computer-assisted translation; corpus linguistics for translation; the use of digital technology in translation; interpreting and simultaneous translation; and/or audio-visual and screen translation.   The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research, and publication, appropriate to career stage. He/she/they will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the School and Spanish and Latin American Studies section and to undertake teaching duties on the School’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Master’s and PhD students.  

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile that supports the University’s research strategy, including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate, and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance, and generate publications of international standard.    

Salary

Assistant Professor / Lecturer: € 58,206 – € 92,172 p.a. (7 points)
Assistant Lecturer*: € 37,166– € 64,718 p.a. (14 points)  

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.