LINGUIST List 9.1474

Thu Oct 22 1998

Jobs: ESL, English Ling & Computational Ling

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

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  • Ana Cristina Ostermann, Director of English Language Institute - University of Michigan
  • Philip Miller, English and computational linguistics at U. Lille

    Message 1: Director of English Language Institute - University of Michigan

     Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 08:10:14 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Ana Cristina Ostermann <acoumich.edu>
    Subject: Director of English Language Institute - University of Michigan


    DIRECTOR OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE - THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

    Applications are invited (pending authorization) for the position of Director of the English Language Institute (5-year term, renewable) with tenure at the rank of associate professor or professor in the Program in Linguistics. The ELI is an independent academic unit within the College of Literature, Science and Arts. Its main mission is to provide courses in English as a Second Language and English for Academic Purposes for international students enrolled at the Ann Arbor campus, and to conduct research and development relevant to that mission. We seek outstanding applicants with established teaching and research expertise in English for Academic Purposes and with the capacity to provide the institute with creative leadership in both its teaching and testing divisions. Further specialization is sought in one or more subdisciplines in linguistics, including discourse analysis, second language acquisition, applied phonetics, sociolinguistics or psycholinguistics.

    A letter of application, CV, one representative publication, and three letters of recommendation should be sent by November 15 to:

    ELI Director Search Committee, Program in Linguistics, University of Michigan, 1076 Frieze Building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1285.

    The University of Michigan is an EO/AA employer.

    Message 2: English and computational linguistics at U. Lille

     Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:19:11 +0100
    From: Philip Miller <pmillerulb.ac.be>
    Subject: English and computational linguistics at U. Lille


    The department of English at the University of Lille 3, France, will be seeking to fill several positions in English linguistics and computational linguistics starting in September 1999. The official application process requires candidates to file a first set of forms before November 16 1998. One of these positions will be at the level of professor, the others at the level of "maitre de conferences" (more or less equivalent of assistant professor in the US; requires a PhD). All of these are tenure track positions

    We are seeking candidates specializing in -Phonetics and phonology of English -Syntax and semantics of English -Computational linguistics applied to English

    We expect candidates who are not familiar with the nongenerative frameworks currently in use in France to gain sufficient understanding of these frameworks to be able to situate their research with respect to them and to take into account the familiarity of students with these frameworks.

    Lille 3 has a very good local linguistics research environment including the CNRS funded research group SILEX (Syntaxe, Interpretation, Lexique) and a phonetics laboratory. Lille is also one hour from Paris and two hours from London by high speed train. Belgium and the Netherlands are also easy to get to by rail or road.

    Knowledge of French is necessary, though part of the teaching can be done in English.

    Please write to Philip Miller (milleruniv-lille3.fr) for more information on the nature of the positions, the research environment, and the application procedure.