The English Department of National Chengchi University seeks to fill a full-time position starting from August, 2013. We welcome applications from scholars specialized in English and American literature, cultural studies, translation, or other relevant fields such as drama and comparative literature.  Applicants must have a PhD degree by the start of the appointment, preferably at the time of the interview.  Commitment to teaching undergraduate and graduate literature courses in English and sustained publication are expected.  The responsibilities of the position also include teaching language courses and supervising student activities.  Our undergraduate students are required to take 27 credits of language courses and 27 credits of literature courses.  They had ten years of English courses before they came in the department and are expected to have both the knowledge and skill to write research papers on literature, linguistics, or TESOL when they graduate.  Our MA and PhD students are expected to meet the standards that MA and PhD students in the US or England have to meet.

The College of Foreign Languages at Chengchi University is the home of many international scholars, from Korea, Japan, Jordan, Turkey, Russia, the United States, France, Spain, and Germany.  NCCU is a university committed to the study of humanities and the social sciences.  We take pride in passing down the spirit of humanism and building bridges between different cultures both locally and internationally.

A newly hired professor teaches six hours a week for the first two years, and from the third year, the regular course load is nine hours a week.  The starting salary for an assistant professor in Taiwan is around US$34,500 dollars per year, including the subsidies for new professors.  Income taxes are about 12%.  Apartments can be rented for about ¼ of the monthly salary for a single person.  The National Health Insurance program costs around 800 dollars per year, which includes a dental plan, and most health professionals can speak English.

1. Ph.D. in English/American literature or cultural studies, translation, or relevant fields
2. Ability to teach undergraduate language, liberal arts, and graduate-level courses
3. College teaching experience preferred, but not required

1. Curriculum vitae
2. Copy of diploma and proof of previous academic employment
3. Undergraduate and Graduate transcripts
4. Two letters of recommendation written within the last two years
5. Three copies of Dissertation and publications within five years
6. Sample course syllabi

Search Committee

Department of English

National Chengchi University

Taipei, Taiwan 116

R.O.C.

 
If you want to know more about life in Taipei, Taiwan and NCCU, you can go to our school and department websites or click the following link: http://english.nccu.edu.tw/news/news.php?Sn=445.  If you want to understand more about a teaching and research career in Taiwan from the perspective of the international scholars who have been here for a long time, you can send your inquiry to Jennifer Chang, our assistant (jenchang@nccu.edu.tw), and she will direct your inquiry to faculty members of our department who came from abroad.