Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Description

The Department of English at Arizona State University  invites applications for an Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with an anticipated start date of August 2026. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible appointment made on an academic year basis (Aug 16 – May 15).  

 

About the Department of English: 

The Department of English's motto—"Start here, go anywhere"—captures the unique value of our undergraduate and graduate English degrees, ones that can serve students in any art form, any discipline, and any profession. In fact, our degrees can take students anywhere they wish to travel. The Department of English faculty is internationally renowned for innovative research and teaching and explores the pan-world expression of the English language and its literature, which span the global yet connect directly to the local. The skills of critical thinking, reading comprehension, and analytic expression cultivated in the degrees are transferable into any endeavor. In particular, such skills provide the foundation for creative problem-solving and cultivate individual and collective expression. The department takes as its purview not just historical positioned work, whether linguistic or textual, but includes all forms of expression and all modes of new media, whether analogical or digital. We emphasize writing—academic, creative, personal, public, and workplace—that explores difference reflectively and functionally. Our goal is to educate citizens who can think, read, write, and act in robust and significant ways to meet new challenges.

 

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:  

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national, and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty- first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit: https://thecollege.asu.edu/

 

About Arizona State University: 

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the Arizona Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural, and overall health of the communities it serves.

 

Essential Functions of the job: 

• Conduct and publish original research and scholarship in linguistics, applied linguistics, TESOL, or related fields.
• Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in areas of departmental need, including in-person and online instruction.
• Mentor and advise undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students in research and professional development.
• Provide service to the department, college, university, and profession, including participation on committees and in academic governance.
• Promote student success and embed teaching and research in societal impact consistent with ASU’s charter.

 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in linguistics, applied linguistics, or related discipline, with a specialization in language assessment, at the time of appointment.
• Evidence of or potential for excellence in teaching courses in linguistics and in applied linguistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
• Strong evidence of, or demonstrated potential for, excellence in research and publication.

 

Desired qualifications: 

• Demonstrated expertise in and the ability to teach courses in phonology/phonetics.
• Ability to develop and teach courses on quantitative re