Employment Opportunity
Visiting Assistant Professor of German:
Specialist in German usage-based linguistics, applied linguistics or second language acquisition, one-year term. The department anticipates conducting a tenure-track search in Fall 2012 for the 2013-2014 academic year. Ability to coordinate 1st and 2nd-year German language program, including supervision of GTAs. Completed Ph.D. by August 2012. Teach 4 courses per year at graduate and undergraduate levels, particularly in support of M.A. options in Second Language Acquisition/Teacher Education and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Native or near-native proficiency in German. 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 April 20, 2012 and will continue until position is filled. Send letter and complete dossier (vita, three recent letters of recommendation, and transcripts) to: Dr. Derek Hillard, Chair of Search Committee, 104 Eisenhower Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506-1003. Electronic submission of application materials is welcome at modlang@ksu.edu. Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer, and actively seeks diversity among it employees. Background check required.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish:
Native/near native speaker, Ph.D. in hand by August 2012, sought for a term position (one year, renewable) beginning in Fall 2012. Generalist with areas of special interest including literature, instructional technology and cultural studies. Candidate will teach language, literature, and culture at undergraduate and M.A. levels. Teaching load: six courses per year. Commitment to scholarly research and summer study abroad programs. Successful candidate will value diversity in all its dimensions, and consider different cultural perspectives in solving problems in this area. Send letter of application, CV, and at least three letters of recommendation to Dr. Benjamín Torrico, Chair of search committee, Department of Modern Languages, 104 Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-1003. Electronic submission of application materials is welcome at modlang@ksu.edu. Review of applications will begin April 27, 2012 and continue until position is filled. See our website at http://www.k-state.edu/mlangs. Kansas State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Background check required.
Head Department of Modern Languages (Internal Search):
The Department of Modern Languages (ML) at Kansas State University invites applications and nominations for the position of Head to begin on June 10, 2012. This administrative appointment is for 5 years. The successful applicant will be tenured faculty member in ML with a successful record of teaching, research, and service. The successful candidate will have experience in leading diverse groups of professionals, knowledge of college and university policies and procedures, and a vision for ML's future. The Head will be responsible for the budget, personnel, curriculum, research productivity, and service responsibilities of ML. This individual will also value working with faculty and students from divers backgrounds, have excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, and will be able to exhibit innovative thinking about MLs ongoing programmatic development and resource challenges.
Applicants must electronically submit: (1) a letter of application that describes the applicant's qualifications, views about program development, and philosophy of leadership; and (2) a detailed curriculum vitae. Applications and the names and email addresses of three references should be sent to: Associate Dean Joe Aistrup, c/o Annette Maggio, leggs@ksu.edu. The screening of applications will begin on April 17, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled.
In The News
April 9th, 2012 -- K-State Today
Modern Languages Professor publishes book
Melinda Cro, assistant professor of French and the French language program coordinator, has published her first book, "Armas y Letras: la Conquista de Italia (1405-1625)" (Arms and Letters: The Conquest of Italy (1405-1625), Trans. A. Culbertson Beck, Madrid: Fundacion Universitaria Espanola, 2012.
In this comparative analysis, the author examines the influence of Italian literature on French and Spanish authors during the time of foreign occupation by the Spanish and the French in the peninsula. Culturally, the invaders and conquerors were conquered, analogous to the Romans who, after conquering Greece, were conquered by Greek culture and arts.
Awards from Japanese Speech Contest.
Congratulations to John Boyington, Aaron Cowdrey, Li Xiangqi, Woo Hyun Jeong, Wang Shengyi for receiving awards in the Japanese Speech Contest!
Scholarship Recipient
Andrew Sweeney, senior in Education- Modern Languages and Music Education, was awarded one of 4 nationally competitive scholarships through Pi Delta Phi French honorary to study in Paris this summer. His 2012 Pi Delta Phi Yedlicka Scholarship entitles him to study at the American University in Paris (AUP), and covers tuition, travel expenses, room, and partial board. Congratulations!
February 24, 2012 -- K-State Today
Modern Languages Professor publishes article on the elements of the fantastic in 'Pan's Labyrinth'
Maria Teresa DePaoli, associate professor of modern languages, published "Fantasy
and Myth in Pan's Labyrinth: Analysis of Guillermo del Toro's Symbolic Imagery" in
"Magic and the Supernatural." The book is edited by Scott E. Hendrix and Timothy J.
Shannon and is published by Inter-Disciplinary Press.
February 7, 2012 -- K-State Today
Modern Languages Professor among the winners of Faculty Enhancement Program funds
The College of Arts and Sciences has established a Faculty Enhancement Program to increase the numbers and proportion of faculty members engaging in research, scholarship
and creative activities, particularly those with the potential for garnering extramural
funding and recognition. The program emphasizes enhancing opportunities for faculty
in those disciplines that have not historically enjoyed access to substantial start-up
or extramural funding opportunities.
Tenure-earning faculty members within three years of hire were eligible to apply for funding for summer salary and research support. Applicants were expected to identify a particular project culminating in a work product that would enhance their research capabilities, such as a book or national grant proposal. The funding provided by the program will be complemented by mentoring from a senior colleague at K-State or elsewhere, in addition to group activities among the awardees.
The inaugural competition for the Faculty Enhancement Program was recently completed. Twenty-three applications were peer-reviewed and 15 faculty members were selected for the initial cohort. The awardees are Soo-Hye Han and Jennifer Vellenga, both assistant professors of communication studies; Leilei Shen, instructor of economics; Daniel Hoyt, Katherine Karlin, Kara Northway and Joe Sutliff Sanders, all assistant professors of English; Nathan Albin and Sarah Reznikoff, both assistant professors of mathematics; Laura Kanost, assistant professor of modern languages; David Pickering, assistant professor of music; Nora Bello, Kun Chen and Juan Du, all assistant professors of statistics; and Matthew Sanderson, assistant professor of sociology, anthropology and social work.
November 29, 2011 --K-State Today
Modern languages faculty present literary translations at national conference
Two modern languages professors presented their work at the national conference of the American Literary Translators Association, Nov. 17-18, in Kansas City, Mo.
Anna Hiller, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, presented "The Thrill," her translation of the short story "La ilusión" by Panamanian writer Enrique Jaramillo Levi.
Laura Kanost, assistant professor of Spanish, read from "The Realm of Fortune," her translation of the film screenplay "El imperio de la fortuna" by Mexican writer Paz Alicia Garcíadiego. Hiller is working on an anthology of translated short stories, and Kanost is translating screenplays by Mexican women for a bilingual anthology.
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.