Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, Middlebury College, MIDDLEBURY, VT

The Department of Music at Middlebury College invites applicants for a one-year position in composition and songwriting beginning fall 2023. The successful candidate will demonstrate expertise in Western music traditions and a commitment to undergraduate liberal arts pedagogy. We seek an experienced and innovative instructor with abilities to teach courses that enrich our departmental course offerings and contribute to the college-wide curriculum, including the winter term curriculum. Candidates should provide evidence of excellent teaching and cutting-edge scholarship or artistic work. A doctorate in composition is required.

Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research and where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. The College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.

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 all the complexity and individuality each person brings. With your application materials provide a separate, one-page statement on inclusion that addresses 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 Professor Damascus Kafumbe, Department of Music Chair; a curriculum vitae; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; a statement of teaching philosophy; a statement of research; a sample of scholarly or artistic production; and three current letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to teaching ability.

More information is available at http://apply.interfolio.com/124816. Review of applications will begin May 5, 2023, and will continue until the position has been filled.

Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. Information on our background check policy can be found here: http://go.middlebury.edu/backgroundchecks.