[Comedias] job announcement

[Urbina, Eduardo]

HEAD
DEPARTMENT OF HISPANIC STUDIES

The Department of Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University seeks to fill the position of Department Head.  The successful candidate will have a Ph.D., a demonstrated record of executive administrative experience, an active research program, and national visibility in Hispanic Literature, Hispanic Linguistics, or Latino/Chicano Studies.  The department favors a candidate with strong leadership skills, sensitivity to issues of diversity, and committed to the advancement of its research and educational missions.

The Department is in its sixth year as an independent Ph.D.- granting unit with more than twenty full-time faculty in the areas of language acquisition, linguistics, Hispanic cultural studies, and Latin American, Peninsular and U.S. Hispanic/Latino literature and culture. The ideal candidate will develop key opportunities offered by a young, growing, and innovative program in a border state with a large Spanish-speaking population.

A flagship institution, Texas A&M is an AAU, Research Intensive University. The 205 NACUBO Endowment Study ranks Texas A&M University and Foundations as ninth among all US institutions of higher learning in the market value of its endowment assets. Current enrollment is about 48,000. College Station is the center of a metropolitan area with a population of approximately 200,000.



Minority and women scholars are strongly urged to apply. Texas A&M University is an AA/EEO employer, deeply committed to diversity, and responds to the needs of dual-career couples.

For more information, visit our websites at:
http://www.tamu.edu<http://www.tamu.edu/> and http://hisp.tamu.edu<http://hisp.tamu.edu/>


Start date is September 2010. Applications (cover letter, CV and references) and nominations for the headship should be sent to:

Professor Eduardo Urbina (e-urbina at tamu.edu)
Chair, Department Head Search Committee
Department of Hispanic Studies
TAMU 4238, Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas, 77843-4238
 Review of applications will begin immediately


Dr. Eduardo Urbina
Cornerstone Faculty Fellow
Professor of Spanish and Director of Graduate Program
   Director, Cervantes Project and Cátedra Cervantes, UCLM
Department of Hispanic Studies
204C Academic Building
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4238
http://cervantes.tamu.edu<http://cervantes.tamu.edu/><http://cervantes.tamu.edu  />