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They will also be responsible during Full Term for tutorials (small group teaching) in Portuguese language and literature, across a range of colleges, and for supporting students in academic and pastoral matters. **About you** Candidates may have any research specialist in a relevant field of Portuguese or Lusophone Studies, and should demonstrate the ability and willingness to teach across a range of undergraduate topics, including either modern Portuguese literature (for the Wadham-linked post) or early modern Portuguese literature (for the St Anne’s-linked post). You will also be able to engage with a variety of critical approaches—including, but not limited to, critical race theory, decolonial perspectives, feminism(s), and queer studies—used in the study of Portuguese texts at Oxford. You will have good organisational and interpersonal skills, be committed to high-quality teaching and student support, and be prepared to work collaboratively across colleges. 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Any further enquires may be directed to hr@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on **30 May 2025**. Only applications received before this time can be considered. Shortlisting will take place **02 June 2025** and interviews will be held **w/c** **16 June 2025.** Please quote Vacancy ID 179384 on all correspondence. **Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.** """ . . "image" . "Estates identifier" . "HTML description of Departmental Lecturer in Portuguese" . """_________________________________________________________________________ FACULTY OF MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES Job title Departmental Lecturer in Portuguese (TWO POSTS) Division Humanities Division Department Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Sub-Faculty of Portuguese Colleges Various Location Wadham College or St Anne’s College Grade and salary Grade 7: £38,674 - £46,913 per annum, with discretionary range to £51,059 (inclusive of Oxford University weighting) Hours Full-Time Fixed-term from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 Contract type There is a possibility of extension for one further term (to 31 Dec 2026) for one of the posts. Agreement for this extension will be clarified by May 2026. Reporting to Chair of the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty Board Vacancy reference 179384 Additional information This position has 2 vacancies The roles These fixed-term posts are to provide replacement teaching while one postholder is taking up a Divisional post/sabbatical leave and while another post is temporarily vacant for one year, following the retirement of a postholder. The successful candidates will offer lectures and will contribute to the administration and research environment of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese. They will also be responsible during Full Term for tutorials (small group teaching) in Portuguese language and literature, across a range of colleges, and for supporting students in academic and pastoral matters. Candidates may have any research specialism within Portuguese/Lusophone Studies, but should indicate in their application their knowledge of and willingness to teach one or more of the following areas: modern literature from Portugal; early modern literature in Portuguese. The exact balance of teaching across these areas will be determined in dialogue with the two selected candidates. More information on our current curriculum can be found attached to the end of this document. Please note that in Oxford a range of approaches are taken to modern and early modern texts alike in undergraduate degrees with Portuguese, including (but not limited to) methods related to critical race theory, decolonial theories/practices, feminism(s), and queer studies. As these are fixed-term roles, some teaching materials (e.g. reading lists for tutorials teaching and texts for translation classes) will be provided to assist with preparation, especially in the case of the early modern period. One post will have Wadham as the lead College, with access to a shared office there and will have responsibility for supporting students at Wadham, Christ Church, Magdalen, Queen’s and Trinity. The other post will have access to a shared office in St Anne’s and will have responsibility for students at St Anne’s, Lincoln, and Merton. Each postholder will be responsible for approximately 6 students in total in each year group across the specified colleges. The Wadham post will be primarily focused on modern Portuguese literature, and the St Anne’s post will be primarily focussed on early modern Portuguese literature. Responsibilities/Duties The postholder will have a single employer, the University of Oxford, and will be expected to take on the following responsibilities and duties, on the Faculty side, to the satisfaction of the Chair of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and on the College side, to the satisfaction of the Senior Tutor of the relevant colleges: • To give 24 lectures or seminars over the course of the academic year in one or more of the areas specified above; • To give, across the Colleges, four contact hours of small-group teaching (known as ‘tutorials’) in each week of Full Term (each of Oxford’s three terms per year is eight weeks long) to cover topics in Portuguese literature and language as specified by the Sub-Faculty. Preparation, and the setting and marking of written work relating to the teaching, will also be required. Tutorials will be delivered across colleges according to student choices. • To share responsibility for the general oversight and organisation of Modern Languages teaching within the relevant colleges (see above), including arranging teaching by other tutors for each student in each term, and acting on student feedback when necessary. • To oversee the academic progress of undergraduate students in Portuguese at the colleges mentioned above. This includes providing advice and guidance relating to attendance, conduct, coursework, performance, the year abroad and welfare (referring matters to appropriate others); • To share responsibility for the pastoral support of students reading Portuguese within the relevant colleges (see above), • To set and mark the termly practice exams known as ‘collections’; • To submit accurate and timely teaching records and reports on each student taught each term using the Teaching Management System (TMS), which is Oxford’s on-line reporting system for tuition; • To participate in the undergraduate admissions process, including in interviews which take place in December; as required, to be involved in undergraduate admissions in Modern Languages in the Colleges; 2 • To take part in open days and other outreach events, on occasion, representing Portuguese and sometimes Modern Languages in the College and the Faculty; • To engage in assessment and university examining where required; • To undertake advanced academic study and publish independent research which will underpin lectures and class teaching; and as a secondary commitment alongside teaching, to participate in the Faculty’s research-related activities; • To take an active part in the intellectual life of the lead College’s academic community; • To co-operate in the administrative work of the Faculty and Colleges, including serving on committees and contributing to access and outreach activities. It is expected that the appointee will take on an administrative role in the sub-faculty of Portuguese. • To take on any further duties, as directed by the Chair of the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty Board. Selection criteria Essential 1. Hold, or be close to completion of, a doctorate in the field of Portuguese/Lusophone Studies or an adjacent area. The selection committee will, in exceptional cases, consider applications from those still to complete their doctorate, but individuals will need to have submitted their thesis by 1 May 2025 (at least 5 months before 1 Oct start date). 2. Hold a Bachelor’s Degree (or Master’s). 3. Evidence of the ability to teach undergraduate students across a range of topics in Portuguese/Lusophone literature at the highest level in the medium of English, whether through lectures, seminars or tutorials. 4. Evidence of the ability to produce high-quality research within their own field of expertise. Such evidence should include publicly available peer-reviewed research. 5. Proficiency in Portuguese, and the ability to teach it at undergraduate levels within the Oxford course, including translation between Portuguese and English. 6. Proficiency in English. 7. Evidence of the interpersonal skills for, and a willingness to undertake, the pastoral care of undergraduate students. 8. An awareness of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) issues in higher education, especially as they relate to teaching undergraduates and the subject matters covered by this role. Desirable 1. Experience of graduate teaching and supervision. 3 Pre-employment screening Standard checks If you are offered the post, the offer will be subject to standard pre-employment checks. You will be asked to provide: proof of your right-to-work in the UK; proof of your identity; and (if we haven’t done so already) we will contact the referees you have nominated. You will also be asked to complete a health declaration so that you can tell us about any health conditions or disabilities for which you may need us to make appropriate adjustments. Please read the candidate notes on the University’s pre-employment screening procedures at: https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/pre-employment-checks About the University of Oxford Welcome to the University of Oxford. We aim to lead the world in research and education for the benefit of society both in the UK and globally. Oxford’s researchers engage with academic, commercial and cultural partners across the world to stimulate high-quality research and enable innovation through a broad range of social, policy and economic impacts. We believe our strengths lie both in empowering individuals and teams to address fundamental questions of global significance, while providing all our staff with a welcoming and inclusive workplace that enables everyone to develop and do their best work. 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Such historic resources are linked to cutting-edge agendas in research and teaching, with an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary study. Our faculties are among the largest in the world, enabling Oxford to offer an education in Arts and Humanities unparalleled in its range of subjects, from music and fine art to ancient and modern languages. 4 The Humanities Division has embarked on a major building project on the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, following the recent announcement of the £150 million gift to create the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The Schwarzman Centre will serve as a dynamic hub dedicated to the Humanities. The building will bring together seven Humanities faculties, the Humanities Divisional Office, a new library and significant cultural and public engagement spaces in a space designed to encourage experiential learning and bold experimentation through cross-disciplinary and collaborative study. The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages will move to the Schwarzman Centre upon the completion of the project. For more information please visit: www.humanities.ox.ac.uk Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages The Faculty is one of the leading centres for the study of European language, literature, and culture worldwide, offering expertise in the entire chronological range from the earliest times to the present day, and with specialists in film studies, cultural studies, history of the book, and cultural history as well as languages and literatures. The Faculty offers expertise in French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Czech, as well as in a range of other languages spoken in Europe. Colleagues across the various languages work together in various interdisciplinary projects and research centres, which bring specialists in language and literature together with historians, philosophers, and social studies scholars. 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The Faculty is divided into seven sub-faculties: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and other Slavonic Languages, Spanish and Modern Greek. It includes 11 established professorships as well as 15 individuals with the title of professor and 80 permanent academic post holders. The colleges, which are responsible for undergraduate admissions and undergraduate tutorial teaching, admit a total of about 270 students a year to read for the Honour School of Modern Languages and its joint schools with Classics, English, History, Philosophy, Oriental Studies and Linguistics. The Modern Languages Faculty Board is responsible for the admission and supervision of graduate students. There are about 50 graduates taking taught Masters degrees, and about 120 research students. For more information please visit: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk 5 Sub-Faculty of Portuguese Oxford is the only University in the UK where Portuguese can be studied as an independent language, both in Modern Languages degrees, where it can be combined with any of the other languages offered, and in the Joint Schools with English, History, Philosophy or Classics. Portuguese can be studied ab initio or post A-level. Members of the sub-faculty are the King John II Professor of Portuguese and the Professor of the Romance Languages, plus three Associate Professors (including the posts that these posts are covering); and two Language Lecturers. Further information can be found here: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/Portuguese 6 How to apply Applications are made through our online recruitment portal. Information about how to apply is available on our Jobs website https://www.jobs.ox.ac.uk/how-to-apply. To retrieve the relevant ‘Job Details’ page, search for ID ref (179384) at: www.jobs.ox.ac.uk or go to: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=179384 You will be asked to upload a CV and a supporting statement. The supporting statement must explain how you meet each of the selection criteria for the post using examples of your skills and experience. This may include experience gained in employment, education, or during career breaks (such as time out to care for dependants). Your application will be judged solely on the basis of how you demonstrate that you meet the selection criteria stated in the job description. As part of the application, please ask two referees to submit a reference for you to hr@modlangs.ox.ac.uk by the closing date of the post. Please also ensure we receive two reference letters to be provided by your referees. Applicants should ask their referees to send their letters of reference DIRECTLY to: HR Administrator Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages University of Oxford, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF Email: hr@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk by the closing date (a letter by email is sufficient) quoting the vacancy reference 179384. Referees should preferably not, all be from the same institution and whenever possible one should be the applicant’s current, or most recent, supervisor. NOTE: reference letters must be received from your referees by the closing date for your application to be complete. Please upload all documents as PDF files with your name and the document type in the filename. All applications must be received by midday UK time on Friday 30th May 2025 stated in the online advertisement. 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Past papers may be consulted online, via SOLO: Past exam papers (OXAM) | Bodleian Libraries In order to pass the Preliminary Examination in Portuguese, colleges must present, for each candidate, a certificate of attendance and active participation in oral classes. Candidates must attend and actively participate in no fewer than eight oral classes of at least one hour before the end of the fourth week of the Trinity Term of their first year. The classes may consist of reading aloud with attention to proper pronunciation and intonation, and/or discussion of passages dealing with issues in contemporary culture. The Senior Tutor of each candidate's college is required to submit to the Undergraduate Studies Administrator, Modern Languages, Examinations Office, 41 Wellington Square a certificate endorsed by the Senior Tutor and a Modern Languages Tutor (the latter acting on behalf of the sub-faculty) stating that they have attended, and participated in, the required number of classes. Certification is required by noon on the Friday of 5th week of Trinity Term. Candidates who fail to satisfy this requirement for the June examination shall have their mark for each of the two written language papers reduced by ten marks. Candidates for a language paper or papers in the September examination who have not previously, in that academic year, satisfied the attendance requirement will be examined viva voce to demonstrate at least basic competence in the spoken language. LITERATURE Few students have studied Portuguese literature at school, and therefore the course is intended to develop techniques of close reading, while introducing a wide range of literary genres from different periods and locations within the Lusophone world. The breadth of the syllabus makes it possible for you to make an informed choice when selecting a period of literature paper to study after the Prelim. At the end of Trinity Term, students sit two literature papers. PAPER III: You will read three twentieth-century works, none of them long, but widely different in style and subject matter. All three are modern classics, and each represents a major strand in modern Lusophone literature. Multiple copies of the books are available in the Modern Languages Library (Taylorian Institute) and some college libraries, but most students find it useful to purchase their own copies. The set texts are: • Alda Lara, Poemas • Clarice Lispector, Laços de família • Lídia Jorge, O vale da paixão 10 The exam will give students the chance to choose between a literary commentary and a selection of essay questions on each of the set texts. Students must write three answers, involving a combination of commentaries and essays. PAPER IV: You will study the historical evolution of a literary genre, the unique Portuguese dramatic form known as the Auto. You will read two short plays written in the sixteenth century by Portuguese dramatist Gil Vicente, and two twentieth-century Brazilian plays by João Cabral de Melo Neto and Ariano Suassuna respectively. You will be encouraged to think how the Auto developed over time and was appropriated by dramatists from different social/historical backgrounds and with varying aesthetic intents. You will also study a twenty-first-century play by a Portuguese woman writer, Ana Luísa Amaral, and see how it appropriates a range of earlier western literary traditions. The set texts are: • Gil Vicente, Auto da Índia and Auto da Barca do Inferno • João Cabral de Melo Neto, Morte e Vida Severina • Ariano Suassuna, Auto da Compadecida • Ana Luisa Amaral, Próspero Morreu Students must answer three questions in this paper, and these must include a combination of essays and critical commentaries. A comparative essay is a compulsory component of the exam. 11 """^^ . . . . . "building" . "comment" . . . 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Contract type

Fixed term (1 year) from 01 October 2025 to 30 September 2026.

 

There is a possibility of extension for one further term (to 31 Dec 2026) for one of the posts.  Agreement for this extension will be clarified by May 2026.

 

Hours

Full time

 

About the role

These fixed-term posts are to provide replacement teaching while one postholder is taking up a Divisional post/sabbatical leave and while another post is temporarily vacant for one year, following the retirement of a postholder.

You will also be expected to offer lectures and will contribute to the administration and research environment of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese. They will also be responsible during Full Term for tutorials (small group teaching) in Portuguese language and literature, across a range of colleges, and for supporting students in academic and pastoral matters.

 

About you

Candidates may have any research specialist in a relevant field of Portuguese or Lusophone Studies, and should demonstrate the ability and willingness to teach across a range of undergraduate topics, including either modern Portuguese literature (for the Wadham-linked post) or early modern Portuguese literature (for the St Anne’s-linked post). You will also be able to engage with a variety of critical approaches—including, but not limited to, critical race theory, decolonial perspectives, feminism(s), and queer studies—used in the study of Portuguese texts at Oxford.

 

You will have good organisational and interpersonal skills, be committed to high-quality teaching and student support, and be prepared to work collaboratively across colleges. Teaching materials will be provided to support the preparation of courses, especially in early modern literature.

 

The duties and skills required are described in further detail in the job description.

 

Application process

For your online application, you will be required to upload your curriculum vitae and a supporting statement, setting out how you meet the selection criteria for the post, using examples of your skills and experience.

 

As part of the application, please ask two referees to submit a reference for you to hr@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk by the closing date of the post.

 

Please also ensure we receive two reference letters to be provided by your referees.

 

Applicants should ask their referees to send their letters of reference DIRECTLY to:

HR Administrator,

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages,

University of Oxford,

41 Wellington Square

Oxford,

OX1 2JF

 

For further details, please refer to the How to apply section of the job description. Any further enquires may be directed to hr@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

 

The closing date for applications is 12.00 noon on 30 May 2025. Only applications received before this time can be considered.

 

Shortlisting will take place 02 June 2025 and interviews will be held w/c 16 June 2025.

 

Please quote Vacancy ID 179384 on all correspondence.

 

Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority candidates who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.
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