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Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Reed College
2025-26
Area:   Sociolinguistics
 
Reed College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Linguistics, with a focus in Sociolinguistics, for the 2025-26 academic year, to commence in August 2025.
 
Reed is a highly selective, undergraduate-only liberal arts institution with a commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship. The successful candidate will join a small but comprehensive undergraduate linguistics department to offer five semester-long courses: two sections of our spring introductory course (Sociolinguistic Patterns) along with three upper-division courses in Sociolinguistics, two in the fall and one in the spring. The candidate will also supervise several year-long senior thesis projects on an array of topics within linguistics.
 
Candidates with expertise in social theory, quantitative methods, and understudied or minoritized languages or language varieties are particularly encouraged to apply. Teaching experience as well as experience advising student research projects are also highly desirable. A PhD or ABD in Linguistics is required for appointment.
 
Through Interfolio, please submit a letter of application, a CV, and one sample of your scholarly work (e.g., a journal article, proceedings paper, or dissertation chapter). Please submit the names and contact information for three recommenders.
 
In your letter of application please address the following:
?      Scholarly interests.
?      Teaching experience: solo teaching, TAing, mentoring students, and/or advising student research projects.
?      Teaching interests: identify existing courses from our catalog that you would be interested in teaching, and describe one or two new courses that you could offer.
?      Contribution to diversity and inclusion: Reed College is a community that values cultural diversity and inclusive educational practices as essential to the excellence of our academic program. Please describe the ways in which your past and current teaching, scholarship, mentorship, and/or community service have supported these values. Please also convey the ways in which your work at Reed will support the commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion articulated in the College’s diversity and anti-racism statements (https://www.reed.edu/institutional_diversity/diversity-statement.html).
 
All application materials must be received by Wednesday, January 8th. For further information about this position, please contact Kara Becker (kbecker@reed.edu).
 
An Equal Opportunity Employer, Reed values cultural and intellectual diversity as essential to the excellence of our academic programs, and encourages applications from members of underrepresented groups.
Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics - Sociolinguistics
Organization: Reed College
Location: Portland,  OR 
United States
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Date Posted: 11/20/2024
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Status: This listing expires on: 2/18/2025
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Name:
Reed College
Address:
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Reed College Department of Linguistics
Portland,  OR 97202-8138
United States
Email:
kbecker@reed.edu
Phone:
(503) 517-7432
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Contact:
Kara Becker