Assistant Professor of Spanish

Specialist in Spanish usage-based linguistics, applied linguistics or second language acquisition, tenure-track, beginning fall, 2012. PhD in hand by June 2012. Teach 5 courses per year at graduate or undergraduate levels, including introductory linguistics courses and courses in support of M.A. options in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Commitment to active research profile and service activities. Native or near-native proficiency in Spanish and English. Successful candidate will value diversity in all its dimensions, and consider different cultural perspectives in solving problems in this area. Applications will be reviewed beginning November 1, 2011 and will continue until position is filled. Interviews can be conducted at the MLA convention in Seattle, WA, or the LSA meeting in Portland, OR. Send letter and complete dossier (vita, three recent letters of recommendation, and transcripts) to: Spanish Search/Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages, 104 Eisenhower Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-1003. Electronic submission of these materials is welcome and should be addressed to modlang@ksu.edu. Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer, and actively seeks diversity among its employees. Background check required.

July 28, 2011 -- K-State Today

Modern languages professor presents at international conference

Emma Betz, assistant professor of German linguistics, presented "Managing Relationships in Conversation: Two Uses of Names as Address Terms in Every-day German Interaction" at the International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis' 2011 conference July 10-14 in Fribourg, Switzerland.

The institute promotes the empirical study of practical action and social interaction. The conference featured different fields and approaches in the study of social action and language use in interaction, e.g., interactional linguistics, membership categorization analysis, gesture analysis, workplace studies, and phenomenological and ethnographic studies. For more information, visit the website.