Job Opening: Director of
Russian Language Instruction
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for a Director of Russian Language Instruction, to begin Fall 2010. The opening is envisioned as a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, but all prospective candidates (including tenured faculty) are encouraged to contact the search committee. We seek an energetic, imaginative, and flexible individual, with knowledge and experience in curricular design and innovation, who can work well in a dynamic department with a group of Russian language instructors. The successful candidate will have full administrative responsibility for coordinating the Russian language program during the academic year, to include oversight and integration of the five years of instruction currently offered, supervision of multi-section language courses, assistance with teaching assignments, management of certain extracurricular activities, and close coordination of programs with the Director of the Summer Slavic Workshop. Anticipated teaching load is three courses annually, which may include Russian language, teaching methodology, and second language acquisition. A solid research program is expected in areas such as language pedagogy (including materials development), assessment, second language acquisition, or applied linguistics. Ph.D. or Ed.D. in hand at the time of appointment; previous administrative experience strongly desired. ACTFL/OPI certification desirable. The ideal candidate should have excellent Russian and English, be trained and practiced in current theories of language pedagogy, and have experience teaching Russian at all levels. Salary commensurate with experience.
Send curriculum vitae, letter of interest, and three letters of recommendation to: Search Committee, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University, BH 502, Bloomington, IN 47405-7103. Applications can also be submitted electronically to: iuslavic@indiana.edu, subject line: Director of Russian Language Instruction. Applications should be received by November 30, 2009, but may be submitted after that date until the position has been filled. Current plans are to conduct interviews at AATSEEL in Philadelphia. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer; Indiana University encourages applications from women and minorities.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Indiana University was first organized in 1947 as the Department of Slavic Studies under the leadership of Michael Ginsburg, the university's first professor of Russian. Indiana University is the only university in the state of Indiana to offer the doctoral degree, as well as offering bachelor's and master's degrees, in Slavic Languages and Literatures. The department has a full array of language, literature, culture, and linguistics courses for students interested in the study of Russian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, and Ukrainian. Independent study and summer courses may also be available for Albanian, Georgian, Slovene and Bulgarian.
Intensive summer training in Russian and other languages of our region has been offered at IU Bloomington since 1950. The department's Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL) remains the largest such program in the United States, offering students the opportunity to complete a full year of college language instruction during a single eight-week summer session for reduced tuition rates.
IU Slavic department faculty members represent one of the largest and best concentrations of expertise in the United States, with particular strength in Slavic Linguistics (Feldstein, Fowler, Franks, Shrager); Russian literature (Beaver, Durkin, Kolodziej); pedagogy and phonetics (Chernishenko, Holdeman); and literary and cultural studies of Czech (Volkova), Polish (Beinek), Romanian (Illias) and South Slavic languages (Cooper).
The department works in cooperation with IU’s U.S. Department of Education funded Title VI Center, the Russian & East European Institute, to offer a variety of extra-curricular programming throughout the year. Department students participate in language practice tables (available for all languages), study abroad, talent shows, the Zeta Zeta chapter of Dobro Slovo National Slavic Honor Society, and the annual American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) national post-secondary Russian essay contest. Special concerts, exhibits, lectures, film showings, pedagogy workshops and other events are usually open to the public and advertised in our section of the main IU Calendar of Events.
The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is located in Ballantine Hall, near the center of the IU-Bloomington campus. The main office, located in Ballantine Hall 502, is open from 8-12 and 1-5 on university business days. We invite you to take an on-line campus tour or visit us in person. You can call us at (812)855-2608 or email at iuslavic@indiana.edu.
