Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as an Assistant Professor / Lecturer in English. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. He/she will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as the supervision of Master’s and PhD students.

Applications from candidates with a strong teaching and research profile in poetry or drama are especially welcome, as well as from candidates in a position to teach literature from a variety of historical periods.

The appointee will be expected to build a strong research profile, that supports the University’s research strategy including affiliating to the Research Institutes, where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard. 

Salary:

Assistant Professor / Lecturer: €62,233 – €98,548 p.a. (7 points)

Assistant Lecturer)*: €40,182 – €69,195 p.a. (14 points)

Appointments will be made in accordance with public sector pay provisions.

Please note all applications must be made via our Online Recruitment Portal.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified above. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system.

Late applications will not be accepted.

Application deadline: 23:30 (local Irish time), 4th August 2024

More details on the role are available here