The University is organised into about 140 different departments, each of which recruits its own staff. Permanent academic posts usually have a ‘joint’ post in a College and in the Faculty, but there will also be posts (often, but not exclusively, research-only or teaching-only) that are based in either a College or a Faculty/Department. Colleges arrange their own recruitment and will advertise vacancies on their own websites, although many will also place vacancies on the main university website at:
The following vacancies are primarily in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, which is based at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
The Modern Languages Faculty has roughly 1,000 undergraduates reading for the Honour School of Modern Languages or one of five Joint Schools, and approximately 150 graduate students; there are around 100 academic staff holding university posts. The main subjects studied are French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, and Modern Greek.
The Faculty’s professional services staff are based in Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Most academic staff are based in colleges, but a small number of academics and some research staff are also based at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
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Current Vacancies
Teaching Fellow in Italian (6 month cover)
Salary
Grade 6: £35,681 - £41,636 per annum (with discretionary range to £45,212)
Contract type
Fixed-term (9 Jan 2026 – 9 Jul 2026)
About the role
This fixed-term post is to provide replacement teaching while the substantive postholder is taking leave.
The Teaching Fellow will contribute to the teaching of Italian within the sub-Faculty of Italian, addressing specific lecturing needs in Renaissance Italian Literature. The Lecturer will offer 16 hours of lectures over the two terms of the appointment and 2 hours per week of undergraduate language teaching.
They will also be responsible for providing on average 2 hours a week of undergraduate tuition during term time at Pembroke.
Application process
Applications for this vacancy are to be made online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk and Vacancy ID 181976, or via this link direct to the advertisement , where the job description and access to the online recruitment system can also be found.