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Assistant Professor of Spanish, Sociolinguistics

Employer
Denison University
Location
Granville, OH

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Arts & Humanities, Foreign Languages & Literature
Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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Position Type Faculty Tenure or non-tenure track Tenure Position Title Assistant Professor of Spanish, Sociolinguistics Job Summary and Requirements

The Department of Modern Languages at Denison University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position beginning in August 2019 at the Assistant Professor level. We seek candidates with a graduate degree in Spanish sociolinguistics, focused on Spanish in the U.S. Candidates with a Ph.D. in hand and candidates who are ABD will be considered, as long as the Ph.D. is completed within one year of the start date. Preference will be given to candidates who plan to complete the Ph.D. prior to August 15, 2019 and those with expertise in any of the following areas: Spanish in the professions, heritage speakers, language and power, discourse analysis, or bilingualism and cultural identity.

Candidates should demonstrate a commitment to Denison’s institutional mission of educating in the Liberal Arts tradition and to engagement in service and governance. The successful candidate will contribute to teaching undergraduate courses at all levels of the Spanish curriculum, including General Education courses and seminars in the area of expertise. Evidence of two or more years of effective college-level teaching and a native or near-native fluency in Spanish and English are required. The candidate should have an active research agenda that results in scholarly publications.
This individual will be responsible for teaching 5 courses per academic year, maintaining an active scholarly agenda resulting in scholarly publications, and participating in departmental and college-wide activities. Completed applications submitted by November 10th, 2018 will receive full consideration.

Department Modern Languages Posting Number F 121300123 Full or Part Time Full Time FTE Contact(s) Liz Barringer-Smith, Assistant to the Department of Modern Languages Contact Phone/Extension 740-587-6643 Contact Email barringerl@denison.edu Open Date Close Date Open Until Filled No Special Instructions to Applicants

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Additional Information Denison University Background Check Statement

The final candidate will undergo a background check as a conditional offer of employment.

Denison University EEO Statement

To achieve our mission as a liberal arts college, we continually strive to foster a diverse campus community, which recognizes the value of all persons regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socio-economic background. For additional information and resources about diversity at Denison, please see our Diversity Guide. Denison University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Applicant Documents Required Documents
  1. Curriculum Vitae
  2. Cover Letter/Letter of Application
  3. Teaching Philosophy
  4. Writing Sample
  5. Course Evaluation 1
  6. Course Evaluation 2
  7. Research Statement
Optional Documents
  1. Syllabi 1
  2. Syllabi 2
  3. Course Evaluation 3

Organization

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>As one of the nation's leading liberal arts colleges, Denison offers an authentic education in the fine arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old “Northwest Territory,” west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison is located in Granville, Ohio; 27 miles east of Columbus, the state capital.<img alt="denison_university1.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university1.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>Innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in the pursuit of knowledge and the cultivation of independent thinking. And because Denison is a residential college, students are deeply engaged as citizens of the campus community. They learn from one another in a rigorous academic setting, but also in rich social, cultural and political environments.</p> <p>As a residential undergraduate liberal arts college, Denison is among those places that have been called “distinctively American” in their contribution to higher education worldwide. In fact, it is one of a select number of institutions that today defines the type.</p> <p>Confident in the distinction of its graduates and advantaged by unusual resources, Denison has pointedly resisted the tendency in higher education to add layers of graduate degrees, professional schools, and service functions beyond the scope of baccalaureate education of the highest order. Entering its 177th year, Denison has maintained a fully residential campus based upon the well-tested premise that learning flourishes in community.</p> <p>Denison selectively admits successful, confident, and motivated students who seek to take advantage of highly participatory learning within classroom, laboratory, and studio and who expect to learn and grow through their investment in the challenges and opportunities of college life.<br /> The college attracts matriculants from across the country and more than three dozen nations. Denison engages students with outstanding professors in small classes that encourage men and women to take a high degree of personal responsibility for learning. Students pursue a major field of study selected from 39 areas offered by 28 disciplinary departments and interdisciplinary programs in the divisions of Natural Science, Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Arts as well as complete a sequence of General Education and a personalized curriculum of electives from across the college.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university2.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university2.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: left;" typeof="foaf:Image" />A Denison education is not just for a living but for a life. Denison graduates are educated to be curious, resourceful, and reflective. They are expected to begin a life of learning at Denison, not complete it. They are well prepared for the rapidly changing world of the 21st century.</p> <p>Nothing defines a Denison education more than the mutually enriching relationships that develop between students and faculty. The heart of the college is a full-time faculty of almost 200. These men and women, who hold the most advanced degrees in their fields, are selected on the basis of pedagogical and scholarly ability and are encouraged to be innovative teachers whose continuing growth in their discipline through active scholarship allows them to be among the best at their craft. They look forward to the challenge and stimulation of their students even as they seek to draw the best efforts from them. Many Denison students come to regard professors as mentors, who frequently oversee students' independent scholarly projects.</p> <p>Denison’s faculty is committed to undergraduate education. As teacher-scholar-advisers, their principal responsibility is effective teaching informed by the best scholarship. Faculty members place a priority on working closely with students, interactive learning, and partnerships with students in original research. Denison’s low student/faculty ratio allows for close supervision of independent research and collaborative work in small groups and classes.</p> <p><img alt="denison_university3.jpg" src="http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/styles/medium/public/images/institution_profile/uploads/denison_university3.jpg" style="border-width: 2px; border-style: solid; margin: 5px; float: right;" typeof="foaf:Image" /></p> <p>At Denison, men and women learn and grow in community, and the residential character of the campus is more than a convenience but a way of engaging the full student body in a shared enterprise. The college actively seeks academically superior students who bring diverse talents, interests, backgrounds, and experiences, believing that out of the classroom as well as within learning takes place by sharing, questioning, and growing together. Denison students have unusual opportunities to participate in the arts, in athletics and recreation, in service to others beyond the campus, in student organizational life, and in campus governance.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

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