Spanish Guest Faculty Position 2025-2027
- Employer
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Location
- Bronxville
- Salary
- $42,000 - $56,000
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- Arts & Humanities, Foreign Languages & Literature
- Employment Type
- Part Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
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 guest 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.
Preferred Qualifications
Posting Number: F00177P
Open Date:
Close Date:
Open Until Filled:
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://slc.peopleadmin.com/postings/2307
Sarah Lawrence seeks to recruit and retain a diverse administration, staff, and faculty. 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. (Please see our Nondiscrimination Policy.) For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.
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Organization
Sarah Lawrence is a prestigious, residential, coeducational liberal arts college. Founded in 1926 and consistently ranked among the leading liberal arts colleges in the country, Sarah Lawrence is known for its pioneering approach to education, rich history of impassioned intellectual and civic engagement, and vibrant, successful alumni. In close proximity to the unparalleled offerings of New York City, our historic campus is home to an inclusive, intellectually curious, and diverse community.
Talented, creative students choose Sarah Lawrence for the opportunity to take charge of their education. In close collaboration with our dedicated, distinguished faculty, students create a rigorous, personalized course of study, conduct independent research, and connect a wide array of disciplines. They graduate knowing how to apply the knowledge, skills, and critical thinking necessary for life after college.
Sarah Lawrence College occupies 44 wooded acres in Yonkers, NY, near the Village of Bronxville—just north of New York City. A 30-minute train ride from the Bronxville station takes students into Midtown Manhattan.
In addition to our round-table classrooms, Sarah Lawrence has outstanding theatres, art and performance studios, and music spaces; modern science labs; state-of-the-art graphic computing equipment; competitive sports facilities; a 60,000-square-foot visual arts center; and recently renovated dining facilities.
Our students are men and women who share an enthusiasm for intellectual rigor, academic risk taking, creativity in all disciplines, and original and interdisciplinary work. We are particularly committed to having our faculty, administration, and student body reflect the social, racial, and economic diversity that characterizes our society. The College’s 1,377 undergraduate students come from nearly every state and from 53 countries; 84 percent of undergrads live on campus.
At Sarah Lawrence, students spend more time one-on-one with award-winning faculty than do students at any other college in the country.
Working At Sarah Lawrence College
As a Sarah Lawrence employee, you will join a warm, challenging, and diverse community that offers both quality of life advantages and tangible, valuable employee benefits.
When you work at Sarah Lawrence, you:
- Receive outstanding benefits, such as medical, dental, and vision plans that exceed the standard plans offered by many companies and institutions, and an exceptional retirement plan through TIAA-CREF.
- Have unparalleled educational opportunities, such as tuition benefits on campus for employees, their spouses, and their children; discounted tuition to the College’s renowned nursery school; and tuition benefit programs for dependent children who attend other colleges.
- Have continuous opportunities for advancement, as it is College policy to fill vacancies by promotion or transfer whenever possible.
- Enjoy boundless cultural experiences, including readings, lectures, music, theater, film screenings, dance performances, art exhibitions, and a state-of-the-art library, free to employees. · Have free access to the 48,000-square-foot Campbell Sports Center, with a six-lane pool, modern weight/fitness training center, squash courts, gymnasium, indoor track, outdoor tennis courts, and fitness classes, open to employees seven days per week.
- Have several on-campus options for meals, plus off-campus discounts at local restaurants and stores.
- Work in a convenient location close to all major highways, easily accessed from the Metro-North Harlem line, and 35 minutes from mid-town Manhattan.
- Enjoy free parking on campus, a 10% discount at the college bookstore.
- Website
- https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/
- Telephone
- 914-395-2315
- Location
-
1 Mead Way
Bronxville
New York
10708
US
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