Assistant Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies

This job was posted by : For more information, please see: Assistant Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies The Department of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middlebury College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Spanish beginning in September 2025. We seek candidates who take a transnational approach to Mexico, the United States, and/or Central America in their teaching and scholarship and who specialize in one or more of these areas: Afro-Latin American studies, border studies, decolonial studies, environmental studies, gender and feminist studies, indigenous studies, and new media. Appointment will be made at the rank of Assistant Professor (PhD). Candidates must provide evidence of excellence in scholarship and teaching. Candidates must be strongly committed to teaching language courses at all levels and contributing to the college-wide curriculum, including in the First-Year Seminar program (in English). Tenure-track faculty at Middlebury teach a 2/2 load with an additional class in winter term every other year. They are also required to contribute to the College in the form of service including, but not limited to, serving on elected committees and as Chair or Director of the department or program at the appropriate time in their career. Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. It is also committed to fostering a truly inclusive, open, and supportive learning, teaching, and working environment. The College hires faculty from around the world and a myriad of life experiences, cultures, frames of reference, social identities, and learning perspectivesto help cultivate and advance innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our talented and distinguished student body. To that end, as an equal opportunity employer, Middlebury College seeks applications from people who would contribute to our increasingly diverse educational community not only through their backgrounds and interests, but in age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, national origin, religion, and physical ability. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, with the all the complexity and individuality each person brings. In your application materials, please address how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service demonstrate a commitment to and/or evidence of engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion. Through Interfolio submit: a letter of application addressed to the department chair, Professor Nicolas Poppe; a curriculum vitae; and three current letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise. Additional materials such as transcripts and writing samples may be solicited as the search progresses. More information is available at andReview of applications begins October 25, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled. Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found here:r r r r rCopyright 2024 Inc. All rights reserved. r rPosted by the FREE value-added recruitment advertising agency r jeid-7d0a3e2c6a20a143b2cf380379bf4e2e

Created: 2024-10-19