CLARE COLLEGE

Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies

Applications are invited for the post of Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, tenable at Clare College, Cambridge.  The Studentship is tenable for up to three years subject to satisfactory annual appraisal, and the successful candidate will be expected to take up appointment on 1 October 2009. It is intended on the one hand that the post will allow the successful applicant to become fully involved in the life of the College on a par with the Fellows, and on the other to contribute to the research and teaching activities of the Department. The postholder will be expected to engage in research at post-doctoral level, and to contribute to teaching up to six hours a week within the Department during Full Term. This may include lectures, seminars, classes, and supervision of undergraduate students. Candidates will be expected to hold a PhD. They will have a strong profile, both in terms of research and publications, and with the promise to bring an outstanding input to the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. They will be expected to have a native or excellent non-native command of Portuguese and English. Candidates will be invited to apply with an outline of their proposed research.

The pensionable scale of stipends for this post is £23,508 a year, rising by 3% p.a. and any cost of living rises.

Applications (five copies), which should be in English, including a detailed curriculum vitae, a list of publications, a one-page statement of research interests and future plans, and the names and email addresses of three referees, should be sent so as to reach the HR Officer by the closing date of 13 July 2009.  Candidates are requested to ask their referees to write directly to the HR Officer by the same date.

Candidates may also be invited to submit recent examples of their work for consideration by the Committee or, in the case of work which has been published, to draw the Committee’s attention to items of special relevance to their application.  They will also be asked to give a short presentation prior to interview.  Presentations and interviews will take place in the week beginning 22 July 2009.  Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor Alison Sinclair, Head of Department (e-mail: as49@cam.ac.uk).

The HR Officer can be contacted by email on sh435@cam.ac.uk or by telephone on 01223 333222.

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