The School of Modern Languages at the University of Bristol seeks to appoint an open-ended, full-time Lecturer in Latin American Studies / Spanish (Pathway 1) from 3 January 2024.

The successful candidate will bring research expertise in Latin American Studies or Spanish, broadly understood, to complement and contribute to the depth and breadth of the existing interdisciplinary team. This might include any period of history, any geographical region of the world where Spanish is spoken, and disciplinary backgrounds from geography, digital humanities and sociology to linguistics, visual culture and literature. They will be able to offer research-led teaching in their area of Latin American Studies or Spanish and to contribute to teaching and administration within the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, and the School of Modern Languages. They will possess a PhD in Latin American Studies or Spanish or a cognate field by the time of the appointment. The candidate will be fluent in the Spanish language.

The successful applicant will have a strong, well-developed research profile at or beyond doctoral level, with an established record of, or evidence of the potential for, high-quality publishing commensurate with the applicant’s career stage. They will pursue research of the highest international quality in their field of specialism. They will have an established record of, or evidence of the potential for, external grant capture. While in post, they will seek to develop this. They will have demonstrated the ability to deliver research-led teaching in their chosen field, or to have demonstrated the potential to do so.

Application deadline: 2 October 2023

More details on the role are available here