Open Positions

2

Time Span

23 Apr 2025 for 4 years

Application Deadline

15 Dec 2024

Financing

no

Areas of study

American Studies, English Studies, German Studies, Romance Studies, General Linguistic Science, General Literary Studies

Description

The PhD-Programme Class of Language Education (Graduate School Language & Literature, LMU Munich) welcomes applications for non-funded doctoral positions beginning in the summer semester 2025. 

Application deadline: December 15, 2024.

The Class offers a research-oriented and integrated curriculum, open to doctoral candidates from all subject didactics within the Faculty of Language and Literature at LMU Munich.

Professors from German and English didactics, as well as didactics of Romance and Classical Languages, represent a broad spectrum of theoretical positions, research methodologies, and different practical approaches.

The interdisciplinary course offerings focus on processes and outcomes of teaching and learning languages, literature, and culture in first, second, and foreign language contexts within and outside of schools. Possible doctoral projects can address historical, theoretical, or empirical questions in language, literature, or media didactics, as well as research on the teaching profession.

Furthermore, doctoral candidates in the Class of Language Education benefit from intensive and individual supervision of their research projects, an interesting guest programme, the provision of key qualifications, as well as various opportunities for professional exchange and financial support for research and conference trips. The doctoral candidates in the Class of Language Education also have excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation with doctoral candidates from the Class of Language, the Class of Literature, or the Class of Culture and History, which are also embedded within the Graduate School Language & Literature Munich.

Applicants are expected to have an above-average university degree (Staatsexamen, state board examination, Magister Artium, diploma, Master of Arts, Maîtrise, Laurea, etc.) in one of the following (didactic) disciplines: English studies, American studies, German studies, Romance studies, classical philology, or language teaching research. Additionally, sufficient knowledge in at least two European languages of scholarship, including German, is required to participate in the programme. Teamwork skills and the willingness to actively contribute to the Class of Language Education are expected.

The Class of Language Education is committed to assisting its members in securing alternative funding. In addition, members can expect a generous budget for (conference) travel expenses, payment for study participants an much more.

• About the Class: https://www.didaktik.gsll.fak13.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
• About the electronic application process: https://www.didaktik.gsll.fak13.uni-muenchen.de/bewerbung/index.html
• For International Students:https://www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu/working-at-lmu/additional-services/lmu-gateway/index.html

Contact for further information on the doctoral program and application:
Dr. Judit Vári
J.Vari at lmu.de