<OT> Job: Chair, English Language, Edinburgh University

[Patrick Honeybone]

Chair of Historical and Modern English

The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences invites
applications from distinguished Anglists for the Chair of Historical and
Modern English. Applicants should have an internationally outstanding
research record in one or more of the main sub-disciplines of the
linguistic study of English. They should possess willingness and ability
to assume a role of significant academic leadership, as well as to
contribute appropriately to the delivery and management of the School's
curricula at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

For further information about the subject and its infrastructure at
Edinburgh see http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk. Informal enquiries should be
addressed to the head of department, email Heinz.Giegerich at ed.ac.uk.

Further particulars, including details regarding the application
procedure, are available from Human Resources, The University of
Edinburgh, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT, through
http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk, or by telephone (+131 650 2511). They can also
be downloaded from the department's website:
http://www.englang.ed.ac.uk.

The salary will be in the professorial range.

The appointment is available from 1 September 2004 or from the earliest
convenient date thereafter. It is expected that the appointee will be
invited to take the established Forbes Chair of English Language after
the retiral of its present holder in 2005. 

Presentations and interviews will be held on 14 and 15 June 2004. 

Closing date: 15 April 2004.