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The Department of Classics of Northwestern University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship, beginning September 2005. Candidates must demonstrate broad and innovative intellectual interests, outstanding scholarly abilities and commitment to teaching. The field of specialization is open (both Greek and Latin/Roman literature and history). The successful candidate will contribute to the departments cross-disciplinary faculty collaborations for graduate education in comparative literary studies, ancient philosophy, political and social thought, or will be able to develop collaborations in other fields, as well as help develop our undergraduate classics curriculum in imaginative ways. In addition to membership in the Department of Classics, the successful candidate will be a core member of Northwestern's Classical Traditions Initiative (CTI), a multi-disciplinary forum for discussion of the cultures of classical antiquity and their reception, involving faculty in classics, comparative literature, philosophy, English, art history, political theory, rhetoric, theatre, religion and history. AA/EOE. Women and minority scholars are encouraged to apply.  The deadline for applications is November 10.  We plan to interview at the APA.   Candidates should send a letter of application, CV and a writing sample (25 pp max), and have three letters of recommendation reach the search committee by the deadline.  Materials may either be submitted on-line at http://www.classics.northwestern.edu/opportunities.htm or mailed to Sara Monoson, Search Committee Chair, Department of Classics, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 60208-2200.

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