University of Exeter – College of Humanities, Department of English
Lecturer in Renaissance Literature (Education and Scholarship)

Location: Exeter
Salary: £33,574 to £37,768
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

The University of Exeter is a Russell Group University in the top one percent of institutions globally. In the last few years we have invested strategically to deliver more than £350 million worth of new facilities across our campuses with plans for another £330 million of investment between now and 2016. The College wishes to recruit a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature (Education and Scholarship). This post is available from 01 September 2016 to 30th June 2017.

The post will include teaching the level 3 module “Life and Death in Early Modern Literature” and the level 2 module “Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640”. It may also involve teaching the level 1 modules, “Rethinking Shakespeare” and “The Poem”.

The successful applicant will possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist and core knowledge in the discipline, demonstrated by a PhD or equivalent in Renaissance Literature to develop teaching programmes, and teach and support learning in this academic area. They will use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students. They will participate in and develop external networks, for example to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, obtain consultancy projects, or build relationships for future activities.

The successful applicant will have evidence of excellent teaching identified by peer review and have made an impact at discipline programme level beyond their own teaching. Staff at this level are expected to work towards Fellow of the HEA status and to attend formal CPD relating to this.

For further information please contact Prof Henry Power (Director of Education, English), e-mail h.c.j.power@ex.ac.uk or telephone (01392) 724254.

The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer which is ‘Positive about Disabled People’. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in the workforce.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANT073/lecturer-in-renaissance-literature-education-and-scholarship.

Applications close on 22 June, 2016.