The School of Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused)  in French.  This is a fixed-term post that will start on 1 September 2021 and end on 10 June 2022 and is to provide full-time maternity cover. Applications are invited from candidates with a specialist interest in any area of circa eighteenth-century/Enlightenment French or Francophone literature and / or culture. You will be expected to hold a PhD, possess native or near-native language skills in French and English, and be able to teach more broadly at sub-honours level in the seventeenth-eighteenth century period. The ability to contribute to the programme in Comparative Literature is not essential but would be an advantage.  

 Further detailed information about the School of Modern Languages can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/.  

Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr Victoria Turner, e-mail: frenchhod@st-andrews.ac.uk or vct2@st-andrews.ac.uk and/or to the Head of School, Prof Seán Allan (langshos@st-andrews.ac.uk).  

Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian, Minority or Ethnic (BAME) community and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in academic posts at the University.  

The University is committed to equality for all, demonstrated through accreditation (Athena SWAN;   Carer Positive; Stonewall, LGBT and Race Charters), as listed on: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.