VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON – WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
Professor of Classics. We are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor/Professor of Classics to maintain the high research and teaching profile of the Classics programme, which teaches Greek, Latin, and a range of Classical Studies courses. The appointee should display a continuing interest in high level research and substantial publications in one or more areas of Classics. They will be expected to foster graduate research at Victoria University and advance Victoria's links with other Classics programmes in advanced research nationally and internationally.
Classics at Victoria University has about 1,000 enrollments in Classical Studies, Greek and Latin, from first year to Ph.D. level. There are eight staff with research interests in mythology, drama, history, film studies, social history, thanatology, and Greek, Roman and Etruscan art, as well as in Greek and Roman literature.
Online applications should include:
- a detailed letter of application;
- a curriculum vitae;
- the names and e-mail addresses of three referees. The closing date is 3 October 2008.
For further information about the position, visit http://vacancies.vuw.ac.nz/
Interested candidates are encouraged to visit the Classics programme website (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/classics). For further information about the programme in Classics, please contact Prof. Art Pomeroy, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand (Tel. +64-4-463-6781; Fax: 64-4—4635388; e-mail: Arthur.Pomeroy@vuw.ac.nz).