Visiting Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies

Description

The Department of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor with a 3/2 teaching load beginning August 1, 2026. Specialization in foreign language pedagogy with the capacity to teach undergraduate courses with a commitment to language instruction in multi-sectioned language and culture courses, using up-to-date classroom technologies. Candidates with a demonstrated interest in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom are especially encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to an interdisciplinary study of the Italian language and its manifestations and usage in the present social context with a focus on de-gendering and de-centering Italian language to make the syllabus more inclusive and diverse. Applicants will be expected to participate fully in, and actively organize, the Department’s activities - both at the curricular and the extracurricular level. Ph.D. is required. Active scholarship and record of research interests (conferences, podcast, public conversation) in second language pedagogy is required and a second specialization in any field of Italian Studies with a preference for Early-Modern Literature is highly desirable.

Bryn Mawr College is a distinguished liberal arts women’s college with a vibrant faculty, a talented staff, and an intellectually engaged student body eager to make a difference in the world. We have a student body of about 1,400 undergraduates and more than 300 graduate students in coeducational graduate programs in social work, humanities and science. Bryn Mawr College is in the greater Philadelphia area and enjoys strong consortial relationships with Haverford College, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. Bryn Mawr College is an equal-opportunity employer.

Application Instructions

To apply for this position, candidates must submit a cover letter, CV, a one-page statement of teaching philosophy, a sample syllabus of Italian first year language recently designed, a syllabus of early modern literature and culture at an advanced level, and two letters of recommendation via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until May 18, 2026.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Bryn Mawr College shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.