Please upload the following documents as one PDF document with your application:

1. a cover letter, which should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experiences that directly relate to this position.
2. CV (including names of two faculty references).
3. Former GSIs at the University of Michigan should attach summary sheets from teaching evaluations.

The Slavic Languages & Literatures Department is looking to hire 1 GSI to lead one discussion section for faculty-led lectures in Slavic 312 (Central European Cinema) in Winter 2026 as a long-term sub. 

During four decades of Communist Party rule, the film industries of Central Europe were under state control. One positive result of this was ample funding for serious films about social and political topics. In certain thematic areas, particularly those dealing with racial and ethnic intolerance and with the plight of women in patriarchal societies, filmmakers in Central Europe were able to be more incisive, frank, and provocative than is often the case in profit-driven Hollywood film. Talented and committed filmmakers were able to take advantage of their regimes' progressive official pronouncements with regard to ethnic and gender issues to craft powerful films which the regimes had no grounds to suppress. That legacy has carried on since the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, albeit uneasily, as new generations of filmmakers have delved into persistently troubling questions about the region's past and present. In this course, we will examine the prewar roots of this tradition of critical filmmaking, its development through the Communist period, and how it has continued after the collapse of Communism. We will view and discuss fifteen films in chronological order (by production year) and consider their artistic structure?that is, how they go about transmitting their themes with power and emotion. We will use our developing sophistication in reading the films' techniques to analyze what these films say about the intersecting themes of race, ethnicity, and gender during periods of social transition and crisis.

Duties include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Teach one discussion section of 20 students.
• Attendance at all lectures and film screenings (five hours per week)
• Read, evaluate, and comment on three papers and two rewrites for each of the 20 students.
• Holding regular office hours to assist students throughout the course.
• Being available over email to help students in case they have any questions pertaining to the course.
• Meeting regularly with the course instructor.
   

Applicants must be currently enrolled as a graduate student in good standing at the University of Michigan.

• relevant academic preparation for teaching the course material;
• (preferably) prior GSI experience/with favorable student evaluations;
• overall academic performance and progress toward the degree;
• ability to work with diverse student body and with very diverse assignments;
• compatible availability.
• LSA student enrolled in a graduate program
   

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures
3040 Modern Languages Building
812 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Or email Eva Fall (sll.student.services@umich.edu)
Ph: 734-936-0150
 

All applications will be submitted for review to the faculty member teaching the course. Possible interviews will take place on a rolling basis and decisions will be made by December 19, 2025. After review of applications and possible interviews, decisions will be made by the faculty member teaching the course.

All GSI appointments are subject to administrative approval. Applicants may request information about the status of their application from the program at any time. 

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