Temporary lectureship in University College Cork

Applications are invited for a one-year temporary Lectureship in French (see advertisement, together with further particulars and application form, both in Word format). The post arises from the award of a Government of Ireland Fellowship made to Dr Martin Howard by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The successful candidate will have a strong academic background in French and will have obtained, or will be near completing, a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in French. The duties of the successful candidate will include research and teaching (including language teaching), and participation in the other areas of work of the Department. The teaching duties will include courses in the some or all of the following areas in particular, the courses in question being taken by students in the Faculties of Arts, Commerce and Law:

--- linguistics, including phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, etc.;
--- applied linguistics;
--- second language acquisition;
--- la francophonie<,/i>, including French in Canada

Information concerning the Department of French is available at www.ucc.ie/french/. Informal enquiries about this post and about the Department of French may be made to the Head of Department, Professor Patrick O'Donovan (telephone: + 353 21 4902887; email: podonovan@french.ucc.ie).

Please note that the closing date for applications is 4 June 2004.