The German Studies Association is searching for an editor for its flagship journal, the German Studies Review, the world's leading journal of interdisciplinary German Studies. The new editor will succeed Professor Diethelm Prowe, who will retire at the end of 2011. The editor will be chiefly responsible for the content of the GSR and, with help from the editorial board, will make final determinations about that content. Deadline for application: April 1, 2010.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications and nominations for the "Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in the History of Poland" and the "Stefan and Lucy Hejna Family Chair in Polish Language and Literature." Application deadline: April 3, 2009.

Within the Excellence Cluster 264 Topoi - The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations", which has been set up in the framework of the Excellence Initiative at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität Berlin, one doctoral grant in Modern German Literature (Ref. no. DS/E-I/02/09) is being offered within the Research Group E-I Knowledge of ancient spaces as processed by the arts. Ancient spaces as spaces of motion in post-ancient times - factography, imagination, and construction. Application deadline: February 28, 2009.

The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto invites applications for a tenure-stream assistant professor appointment in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Language, Literature and Culture beginning July 1, 2009. Application deadline: November 17, 2008.