27 October: fyi -- corpus linguistics, Lille

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PROFESSOR POSITION IN ENGLISH CORPUS LINGUISTICS

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Urgent deadline: *October 29, 16h Paris time*

Interested candidates are asked to contact Maarten Lemmens
(maarten.lemmens@univ-lille3.fr) a.s.a.p. for further information and
follow-up. Also please carefully read the information below on the
application procedure.
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Pending final approval by the Minister of Education and Research, there
will be a job opening at the university Lille 3, France for a professor
position (tenure track) in English linguistics, with strong preference for
candidates with expertise in Corpus Linguistics and/or syntactic theory (or
theories). People working in usage-based grammar and corpus linguistics are
thus particularly encouraged to apply for this position.

Candidates should have a solid research record in the specified domain as
revealed, primarily, by ample international peer-reviewed publications in
the years following the PhD. The succesful candidate will be expected to
direct MA and PhD students; prior experience for this is not required but
will be a plus. Experience with project management is recommended as well.
The candidate will be asked to integrate within one of the research axes of
the reserach center ?Savoirs, Textes, et Language? (see
http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/ ). Teaching will be at undergraduate
and graduate level; teaching load amounts to 192 hours a year (on average 6
hours per week, during 2 semesters of 12 weeks). Salary may vary depending
on prior occupation, but should be minimally around 3,000 euro / month
(excluding bonuses) to start with and increases every year.

Working knowledge of French will suffice to apply, but the candidate will
be expected to improve his/her knowledge of French over the first years
after hiring.

PROCEDURE
In France, before you can apply for a tenure track position, you need to
obtain a ?qualification? at the level you want to apply for (in this case,
?Professeur des Universit?s?). This is done on the basis of an evaluation
of your file by a national committee (the CNU, Conseil National des
Universit?s). While this may seem overly administrative hassle, it actually
builds in openness to international researchers. French researchers wanting
to apply for a Professor position need to have an ?Habiliation ? Diriger
des Recherches (HDR)?, but the qualification procedure allows (non-French)
researchers who do not have an ?habilitation? but have a solid research
file to qualify as well.

In order to submit your file for qualification, you first need to sign up
electronically, providing some basic information about yourself and your
career. The (rigid!) deadline for signing up is * 29 October 2009, 16h00
(Paris time)*, so there is some urgency here. Actual submission of your
file will be done later (deadline December 14). Signing up does not oblige
you to actually apply for the job later, but you cannot apply for a job
without the qualification. In fact, the qualification allows you to apply
to *any* job anywhere in France.

Information about the procedure for the qualification (and later
?recrutement?) can be found here:

http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid22646/maitres-de-conferences-et-professeurs-des-universites-recrutement-agregation-detachement-mutations.html


You sign up via the portal ?Galaxie?:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/candidats.html

at the right upper corner, click on ?acces Galaxie/qualification?, then
choose the link for new candidats (?Si vous ?tes un nouveau candidat ou si
votre ancien num?ro n'est plus reconnu par l'application, veuillez
?) and fill out the form. A login and password will be send
to you via mail, via which you can go back and update the information till
you have permanently submitted it (to be done *before* Oct. 29, 16h).

--
Den b?sta taktiken ?r inte alltid att h?lla sig uppr?tt, utan att l?ra sig falla mjukt" (Kajsa Ingemarsson, "Sm? citroner gula", p. 292)
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Maarten (=Martin) Lemmens
Professeur en linguistique et didactique des langues
(Sp?cialit?s: linguistique anglaise & linguistique cognitive)
Universit? Lille 3,
B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France
Bureau B4.138; t?l.: +33 (0)3.20.41.67.18

Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage
http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens
Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes" (revue de l'AFLiCo)
http://cognitextes.revues.org/
Membre du bureau de l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Cognitive
http://www.aflico.fr/
Board member of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association
http://www.cogling.org/
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