Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics - German - Department of European and Eurasian Studies

College/School/Unit: College of Liberal Arts

Department: Department of European and Eurasian Studies

Posted: Oct 13, 2026

Apply By: Nov 23, 2026

The Department of European and Eurasian Studies at The Universityof Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track

Assistant Professor to begin Fall of academic year . Weseek a specialist in German Applied Linguistics, with complementary research and teaching in Second Language Acquisition,Psycholinguistics, Digital Humanities, multilingualism, or languagecontact in the European context, with the charge of overseeing

Germanic Studies graduate student professionalization and directingthe lower-division German language program. Duties will include undergraduate teaching (including teaching the Core Curriculum),graduate teaching, research, and service to the department,college, university, and the field.

Applicants must have completed all the requirements for the Ph.D.by time of appointment, or expect to obtain the Ph.D. within a yearof joining the faculty as Instructor. Near-native fluency in both German and English is required.

The ideal candidate will have an active, data-driven research program in areas such as language acquisition (including lab-based,classroom-based, and digital approaches to research), textualanalysis, reading/writing studies, learning theory, outcomesassessment, corpus linguistics, or critical discourse analysis,including research design in their fields; a track record of TAtraining and supervision (potentially including those in languagesother than German, but with a principal focus on Germaniclanguages); a demonstrated long-term commitment to making and maintaining ties with language teaching on the level of nationalprofessional organizations (e.g., AATG, AAUSC, ACTFL, and AAAL) aswell as locally (local AATG chapters;

campus service in placement,assessment, language events on campus); the ablity to contribute toand offer courses for the Texas Language Center (TLC) Portfolio Certificate in Language Teaching / Language Program Coordination.

For further information, please contact:

Marc Pierce, Search Committee Chair

mpiercxas.edu

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