Lecturer in Digital Cultures (Teaching and Scholarship) at Queen Mary University of London
Job Description
About the Role
The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, within the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, seeks to appoint a 1 FTE Lecturer in Digital Cultures for a fixed-term period (01 January 2025 – 30 September 2028) to contribute to the teaching of its Liberal Arts and Modern Languages programmes to cover absence on research leave. Applicants with further specialisms in languages, literature, musicology, or any other discipline within the humanities would be especially welcome.
Duties will include designing, teaching, and assessing undergraduate modules, contributing to MA provision as appropriate, undertaking administrative roles within the Department and the School, participating in admissions and outreach activities, and engaging in scholarship on the subject of teaching and learning of Digital Cultures.
Modules on which you will be expected to teach during the academic year 2024–25 include
– SML 4006 Culture and Language,
– LIB 5203 Digital Culture and Society,
and there will be additional modules in subsequent years.
In subsequent years, you will also be expected to develop your own modules in the field of Digital Cultures and to contribute to the supervision of final year undergraduate research projects.
The post is full-time and for a fixed-term period. Starting salary is Grade 5, £49,785 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
About You
Candidates will hold a PhD in Digital Cultures or a related subject, or a relevant professional qualification or equivalent professional experience together with the ability to deliver teaching and assessment at undergraduate and postgraduate level. The ability to work constructively and flexibly with colleagues, and good organisational and communicative skills, are also essential.
About the School
The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures conducts cutting-edge teaching and research. Further details can be found here.
Informal enquiries to Professor Astrid Kohler at a.kohler@qmul.ac.uk
About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.
Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.
