Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Translation Studies
Modern & Classical Languages

Kent State University
Kent Campus – Kent, Ohio, USA

Opportunity for a full-time, tenure track, assistant professor of Translation Studies specializing in empirical translation studies and cognitive science approaches to translation, to begin August 2012.  The successful candidate will support a translation studies program at the Masters and Doctoral level within the internationally recognized translation program (Institute for Applied Linguistics http://appling.kent.edu) of the Department of Modern & Classical Language Studies at Kent State University.

Qualifications: A Ph.D. is required as well as record of research in cognition and empirical methods and their application in translation related research.  Potential for securing extramural research funding highly desirable.  Experience in teaching graduate courses in empirical methods, translation and cognition, Spanish scientific, technical, and medical translation necessary.  Translation into Spanish desirable.

In addition to applying online, please submit by US Mail a letter of application, current vita, graduate transcriptions, and also three current and confidential letters of recommendation to:

Dr. Jennifer Larson, Chair
Department of Modern & Classical Language Studies
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, OH 44242-0001

For a complete description of this position and to apply online, visit our jobsite at http://jobs.kent.edu.  For more information, please contact Brian Baer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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