Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics

Loyola University Maryland Main Campus
Full time
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Position Title

Assistant Professor of Spanish Sociolinguistics

Employee Type

Office/Department

Modern Languages & Literatures

Work Environment

Loyola University Maryland Main Campus

Position Duties

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola University Maryland invites applications for a tenure-track position in Spanish for the 2025-2026 academic year. We seek a teacher-scholar with a specialization in Spanish sociolinguistics and research experience in heritage speakers and/or US Spanish. The ability to teach all levels of Spanish language and culture is required. Ability to teach courses in Spanish for the Professions is expected. A semester course load is 3/3, including core language, conversation, culture and upper-level courses in the field of specialization. The successful candidate should have experience teaching at the college level. A dynamic research agenda in sociolinguistics is expected as is participation in student and department-related service. Evidence of scholarly promise and teaching excellence required. Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2025. Native or near-native fluency in Spanish is required.
Starting date: Fall 2025.

Please upload a cover letter, a Curriculum Vitae, a research statement, copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts and a teaching portfolio. Once your application is submitted, we will request the names of three references for letters. The teaching portfolio should include a statement on teaching, a summary of your teaching experiences, copies of student evaluations and a description of the courses you would be interested in teaching. The research statement should make clear how you envision conducting a productive research program at a primarily undergraduate institution.

Review of applications will begin on November 15 and will continue until the position is filled.

Successful candidates for any staff, faculty, or administrative position at Loyola University Maryland will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

University Description

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, Loyola inspires students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world. Loyola’s beautiful, historic Evergreen campus is located in Baltimore, and its graduate centers are in Timonium and Columbia. Loyola enrolls 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students across the Sellinger School of Business and Management, the School of Education, and Loyola College of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1852, Loyola is one of 27 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States and the first to bear the name of Saint Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus.

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