Spanish Guest Faculty Position 2025-2027




Rank: Guest Faculty



Tenure Information: Non-Tenure Track



Job Description


The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Sarah Lawrence College seeks a full-time guest faculty member in Spanish to teach two courses per semester in the 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 academic years. In the first academic year, the instructor will teach a yearlong Intermediate Spanish class and two semester-long literature or culture seminars taught in Spanish. Specialization is open, but we are particularly interested in candidates whose courses will expand our offerings in Hispanic literatures and cultures in and outside of South America and the Caribbean. In the second academic year, the instructor will teach a yearlong Advanced Beginning class and two-semester long Advanced Spanish seminars or a yearlong Advanced Spanish class.



Classes in our thriving Spanish program are capped at 15 students and typically meets twice a week for 85 minutes per session; the courses also biweekly meetings are 30 minutes each, for a total of up but no more than 7.5 hours of faculty-student meetings per week across classes for the faculty. These individual meetings are designed for students to work on a semester-long independent project related to the course content with the faculty. We seek an instructor dedicated to imparting the rigorous language skills that will support our students in their work at the College and at our study abroad programs in Havana and Barcelona, as well as furthering our students' interest in Spanish and Global Hispanophone cultures more generally.



Application materials must include: cover letter; CV; a sample syllabus of an intermediate language course; course descriptions and/or syllabi for proposed literature or culture classes; and ( names and contact information for three references.



Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.



Compensation listed for this position is for a full-time tenure-track faculty position and will be contingent on teaching experience.



Required Qualifications


Previous experience teaching Spanish language and Hispanophone literatures and cultures at the college level is required. Candidates should hold at least a Master's degree in Spanish.



Posting Number: F00177P

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Close Date:


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Salary: $42,000 - $56,000



Special Instructions to Applicants


Review of applications will begin on January 21, 2025. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.



To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/5860777




Sarah Lawrence College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has as one of its goals the recruitment and retention of a racially and culturally diverse administration, staff and faculty. To that end, every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals.



Sarah Lawrence College is located in southern Westchester County, 25 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan, NYC . For further information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at http://www.slc.edu/













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