The Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-stream position in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature and Culture at the Assistant Professor rank. Pending budgetary approval, the appointment will be effective fall 2016, with teaching duties beginning on September 1, 2016.
Applicants must have an active research profile, demonstrated interest and proven proficiency in teaching, native or near-native fluency in Italian and English, and PhD in hand at the time of appointment. The successful candidate will be a scholar of the Italian Middle Ages and Renaissance, able to teach broadly in those periods. We are particularly interested in candidates well-situated to contribute to our department's evolving curricular commitment to interdisciplinary fields: transnational cultural studies; studies of media and of material culture; environmental criticism; and gender studies. We also welcome applications from candidates engaged in work in the Digital Humanities and/or with a secondary interest in French Studies.
The Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh is a vibrant community of students and scholars featuring several undergraduate major tracks in Italian, Italian Studies, and French; a Masters in Italian Literature and Culture; and a PhD in French Literature and Culture. The Department's dual focus on Italian and French offers exciting opportunities for innovative and collaborative research and teaching across and beyond its programs as well as for engagement with of the many interdisciplinary programs that inform our work, such as Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies; Cultural Studies; the European Studies Center; as well as a robust Humanities Center.
Send complete dossier (current curriculum vitae; a letter of application containing a detailed description of research interests; three letters of recommendation; a short statement of teaching philosophy; an article-length writing sample; and a teaching dossier containing sample syllabi, a representative sample of teaching evaluations, and examples of course assignments) by November 15, 2015 to the attention of Lina Insana, Chair, Department of French and Italian on-line at
https://facultysearch.as.pitt.edu/apply/index/MTMy. For each reference, you will have the opportunity to input a personal email address or an email address generated through Interfolio's Online Application Delivery.
The La Famiglia Scholarship committee is pleased to announce the financial aid competition...
Si chiama Emanuele Ceccarelli lo studente del liceo Galvani di Bologna unico italiano amme...
By Tom Davidson When Dominic "Hawk" Santia was a boy, he'd tag along with his fat...
Saturday, October 24, 10-12 AM in EDT, 1026 Public Ledger Building – 150 South Indepe...
The Department of Italian invites you to a lecture by Fulvio S. Orsitto who is an Associat...
We are looking for a self-motivated quick thinker for a part-time position at Italian Dual...
by Melody Asper Hanover's newest restaurant may seem like an old friend to anyone...
FRAMINGHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS - JOB DESCRIPTION TITLE: World Language Teacher - Italian...