The Ohio State University: Full or Associate Professor of Russian/Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies and Department Chair

Full or Associate Professor of Russian/Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies and Department Chair


The Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University invites applications and nominations for the position of tenured Full or Associate Professor of Russian/Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies and Department Chair to begin September 1, 2009.


Candidates should demonstrate a distinguished record of scholarship and an international reputation excellence in teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity. Successful candidates should have a considerable administrative experience and the ability to work across-disciplines, and the vision to lead a thriving multidisciplinary department at a Research university.

With a faculty of twelve and over thirty graduate students and lecturers the department is one of the largest and most successful in the field with an extensive curriculum in Slavic and East European languages, literatures, linguistics and cultures and a robust program in Russian and M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Slavic Literature/Cultural Studies and Slavic Linguistics (including a new specialization in Slavic Second Language Acquisition). The university is home to an excellent Title VI Center for Slavic and East European Studies, which offers an interdisciplinary approach and coordinates the more than 60 faculty members engaged in research in Slavic and East European Area studies on campus. In addition the university has a top-20 research library,which holds over a million volumes relating to the Slavic and East European field as well as the largest repository of medieval Slavic manuscripts in the world.

Applicants should send a letter of interest,curriculum vitae, and the names of three references to the following address.Applications will be reviewed beginning November 15,2008.

Daniel Collins=2C Associate Professor
Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures The Ohio State University 400 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Road
Columbus=2C OH 43210-1340