Assistant Professor in German

School/Department: Department of German, School of Languages, Literatures & Cultural Studies

Job Category and Level: Academic; Assistant Professor, Tenure-track

Closing Date: 11-May-2026 12:00

The Purpose of the Role

The Department of German in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin welcomes applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in German.

The successful candidate will be a specialist in 18th- and / or 19th-century German-language literature and culture with a focus on interdisciplinary research, such as, for example: Germanic and European Cultural and Intellectual History, Gender Studies, Performance Studies, Migration Studies, Memory Studies, Environmental Humanities, Medical Humanities. The person appointed will have relevant university teaching experience and a research track record appropriate to an appointment at this level.

The successful candidate will have a completed PhD (or equivalent) or be near completion and, depending on their career stage, show clear potential to develop and maintain a strong, sustained, and independent research profile. Native or near-native language competence and ability to teach in German are required. The person appointed will be required to teach an average of 8 hours per week. The teaching, to be conducted in German and in English, will include lectures and tutorials/seminars in German-language literature and culture for undergraduate students of the Department of German and postgraduate students in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies. It will also include language teaching.

The successful candidate will contribute to curriculum development in the Discipline and the School, will develop their research profile, and will seek external funding for their research. They will contribute to administration and strategic development in the Department and the School.

Context:

German Studies at Trinity dates back to 1776, when the first Chair of German in the world was established in the College. Today, the Department of German has ca. 270 undergraduate students enrolled in five different degree programmes: Trinity Joint Honours, Business Studies and German, Law and German, European Studies, Middle Eastern and European Languages and Cultures. It offers German to non-beginners and beginners. Currently, the Department has five academic posts and four language-teaching posts, including a DAAD and an ÖAD Lektorin.

The Department is part of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies, which has consistently been ranked in the top 100 Modern Languages Schools in the QS world subject rankings (currently at 53 in QS 2026). The School is made up of the Departments of French, German, Hispanic Studies, Italian, Irish and Celtic Studies, Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian and Slavonic Studies, the Centre for European Studies, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, the Centre for Forced Migration Studies, the Centre for Resistance Studies, the Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, the Herzog Centre for Near Eastern and Jewish Religions and Culture, and the Centre for Global Intercultural Communications. The School offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and has a vibrant research culture.

Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, established in 1592, is Ireland's oldest and premier university. It is ranked 75th in the QS World University Rankings 2026. Trinity College is a city-centre university with a historic campus, at the heart of which is its famous Old Library. It has currently over 22,000 students, of which approx. 30% are postgraduates.

Qualifications

• A PhD (or equivalent) or PhD near to completion in German-language literature and culture of the 18th and / or 19th centuries.
• Native or near-native language competence and ability to teach in German.

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