Visiting Assistant Professor of German
- Employer
- Middlebury College
- Location
- Middlebury
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- Arts & Humanities, Foreign Languages & Literature
- Position Type
- Assistant Professor
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
Visiting Assistant Professor of German
Middlebury College
Middlebury College invites applications for a 3-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of German to start in the fall of 2020. Near-native language proficiency in German is required. The area of expertise for the position is open, but preference will be given to candidates whose specializations complement (rather than overlap with) the specializations of the German department's faculty.
The successful candidate will enthusiastically teach German courses at all levels, from beginning to advanced German, including upper-level courses in their disciplinary area taught in German. Candidates should hold a PhD or at least have near-term plans for completion of their doctorate by the time of appointment. Also, substantial experience teaching German at the college level is required.
Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, 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. We strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, with all complexity and individuality that each person brings.
Through Interfolio, please submit a letter of application detailing your passion for teaching and your dedication to current and future research. In a separate statement, please address how your teaching, scholarship, mentorship and/or community service might support our commitment to diversity and inclusion. Also required are a curriculum vitae and three current confidential letters of recommendation, at least two of which must speak to your teaching abilities. Letters of recommendation have to be submitted directly by the recommenders on Interfolio. Email and paper applications will not be accepted.
Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the position is filled. The application deadline is December 15, 2019. We will be conducting preliminary interviews in January, 2020.
Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to Florence Feiereisen, chair of the Department of German, at ffeierei@middlebury.edu.
To apply, please follow this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/66486
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.
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Organization
Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.
Middlebury's undergraduate college is enriched by its other programs. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont is transformed into an institution single-mindedly devoted to the study of nine foreign languages and cultures, and the use of English is virtually banned for the participants, among whom are many Middlebury undergraduates. In the Green Mountains lies Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus, where for six weeks each summer the Bread Loaf School of English is in session. This is followed by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which brings together 200 authors and aspiring authors for 11 days of intensive exchange about the art of writing. The Bread Loaf School of English is in session each summer not only in Middlebury but also at Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
There is also an overseas dimension to Middlebury College. The C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are located in Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Córdoba, Ferrara, Florence, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hangzhou, Irkutsk, La Serena, Logroño, Madrid, Mainz, Montevideo, Moscow, Niterói, Paris, Poitiers, Santiago, Temuco, Tucumán, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Xalapa, and Yaroslavl. These schools enroll more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who seek to further their foreign language skills and immerse themselves as fully as possible in the host culture through academic study as well as direct experience.
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