Part-Time Faculty - Literature (Short-term) (Bard High School Early College Queens)

Description

Bard High School Early College Queens, a partnership between Bard College and the New York City Department of Education, invites applications for a part-time faculty member in World Literature to join our faculty for the fall semester of the 2025-2026 academic year.

 

The Bard Early Colleges (BEC) are founded on the belief that, for many young people, college can and should start at an earlier age. Acting on this belief, Bard Early College enables students to begin serious college study in place of the traditional 11th and 12th grades, at no cost to students or families. The Bard Early Colleges offer a unique home for young people’s intellectual ambition: as both tuition-free, branch campuses of Bard College and public high schools, they award a high school diploma and a Bard College Associate in Arts degree (and 60 transferable credits) by the end of the 12th grade. Students are taught by Bard College faculty in undergraduate seminar classes, all deeply rooted in the liberal arts and sciences, in Bard College’s commitment to excellence in teaching, and in Bard’s mission as a private college in the public interest.

 

Now entering its third decade, the Bard Early College network enrolls over 3,000 young people in campuses in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Hudson, New York; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Baltimore, Maryland; and Washington, D.C.

Qualifications

The successful applicant will teach two sections of World Literature in our high school program. The focus in our high school literature courses is on developing students’ critical reading skills, their ability to work with and appreciate complex texts, and the writing of informed, coherent original interpretive essays. 

• The ideal candidate will have exemplary educational practices, with a demonstrated interest in engaging and challenging younger students with diverse racial backgrounds, economic backgrounds, and a variety of approaches to learning and/or needs for learning support.

• The ideal candidate will understand cultural differences and purposefully help to uplift ideas from underrepresented groups to improve the equity balance in education and will exhibit an inclusive philosophy where all students are capable of succeeding regardless of differences and challenges.

• Preference will be given to those candidates who have earned a M.A. or Ph.D. in their field.

• Preference will be given to candidates who have high school teaching experience.

Location: Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Queens, 30-20 Thomson Ave, Long Island, NY 11101

 

Start Date: [Fall Semester 2025] September 2025 -January 2026

 

Duration: Part-Time (Short Term) Leave Replacement

 

Compensation: $16,000 - $19,000

The position will be funded by Bard College or the NYC Department of Education.

Qualifications

• Be a skilled educator with a demonstrated interest in engaging and challenging younger students with diverse racial backgrounds, economic backgrounds, and a variety of approaches to learning

• Have an interest in working with high school age students 

• Demonstrate a continued interest in the ongoing work in their field 

• Understand cultural difference and purposefully help to uplift ideas from underrepresented groups to improve the equity balance in education
  Preference is given to those who have earned a MFA or Ph.D. in their field and have both college and high school teaching experience.

Application Instructions

Please apply by clicking on the “Apply Now” button found through the Interfolio job application link provided here: https://apply.interfolio.com/105427

Use the Interfolio link provided to upload the following documents:

• a letter of interest
•  C.V. / Resume

Questions

Contact the Principal Laura Hymson at lhymson@bhsec.bard.edu. Please indicate in the subject line of your email that it is an Inquiry about the PT, short-term World Literature position at BHSEC Queens.

Bard High School Early College is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications from those who contribute to our diversity. Women and members of under-represen