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Assistant/ Associate/ Full Teaching Professor of Spanish

Employer
Northeastern University
Location
Massachusetts, United States
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Dec 17, 2024
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Assistant/ Associate/ Full Teaching Professor of Spanish

About the Opportunity

The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its nine tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the college collaborates across the university, the Northeastern network, and partners around the globe. We are strongly committed to fostering excellence through diversity and enthusiastically welcome nominations and applications from members of groups underrepresented in academia. Successful faculty in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities will be dynamic and innovative scholars with a record of research and teaching excellence and a commitment to improved equity, diversity, and inclusion. Strong candidates for this position will have the expertise, knowledge, and skills to build their research, pedagogy, and curriculum in ways that reflect and enhance this commitment.

Responsibilities:

The World Languages Center seeks to fill a non-tenure track job opening for an Assistant Teaching Professor, Associate Teaching Professor, or Full Teaching Professor of Spanish. Duties include a teaching load of six courses for the academic year (three courses in each semester) and ongoing curricular and pedagogical innovation. Professional development and service are also expected. This is a renewable and benefits-eligible position, with an expected start date of Fall 2025.

This position will support the University's commitment to innovation in teaching as well as the World Languages Center's vision of developing students' intercultural communicative competence. Candidates should demonstrate commitment to fostering diverse and inclusive environments as well as to promoting experiential learning, which are central to a Northeastern University education.

Qualifications:
  • Ph.D. in Spanish literature, cultural studies, linguistics, or a related field in hand by the employment start date is required.
  • The successful applicant should be well prepared to teach Spanish language classes at all levels of the curriculum, as well as Latin American/Latino culture and film classes in Spanish and in English; have experience teaching in remote and/or online formats; and possess native or near-native proficiency in Spanish.


Documents to Submit:

Applicants should submit a cover letter that addresses their interest in and qualifications for the position, a curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, evidence of teaching effectiveness (including student evaluations), sample syllabi, a diversity statement, and the names and contact information for at least three individuals who can provide a letter of recommendation.

In the diversity statement, please describe how you can support Northeastern's commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Describe how your teaching, service, research, and/or leadership (as applicable) have supported the success of students and/or colleagues; and/or describe the impact others have had on you as relating to diversity, equity and inclusion.

Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2025 and will continue until the position is filled.

Please address questions to Boris Rasting-Sera, b.rastingsera@northeastern.edu, Project Manager, World Languages Center.

Position Type

Academic

Additional Information

Northeastern University considers factors such as candidate work experience, education and skills when extending an offer.

Northeastern has a comprehensive benefits package for benefit eligible employees. This includes medical, vision, dental, paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness & life, retirement- as well as commuting & transportation. Visit https://hr.northeastern.edu/benefits/ for more information.

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.


To apply, visit https://northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/careers/job/Boston-MA-Main-Campus/Assistant--Associate--Full-Teaching-Professor-of-Spanish_R130281



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