Visiting Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies

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.

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 sample 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.

Apply via Interfolio Transnational Italian Studies