Lecturer in the Humanities Core

The Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago is now accepting applications for a one year full-time Lecturer to teach in the Humanities General Education (“Core”) sequences with a start date of September 1, 2017.

First-year general education courses in the Humanities engage students in the pleasure and challenge of humanistic works through the close reading of literary, historical, and philosophical texts.  These are not survey courses; rather, they work to establish methods for appreciating and analyzing the meaning and power of exemplary texts.  The class discussions and the writing assignments are based on textual analysis.   Further information on the Humanities General Education sequences can be found in the College Catalog:  http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/thecurriculum/

Duties include teaching a maximum of six class sections per academic year.  A minimum of one section per quarter will be assigned.  Section assignments might be unevenly arranged across the three academic quarters and non-consecutive.  Teaching assignments might span more than one course sequence.  In addition to teaching, lecturers are required to participate in the regular meetings of the teaching staff of the sequence, and other events (lectures, performances, etc.) associated with the Core sequence(s) to which they are assigned.

This position requires a completed Ph.D. in a relevant humanities discipline and evidence of teaching excellence.  The salary is $48,000 plus applicable University benefits.

To apply for this position, submit your application through the University of Chicago Academic Career Opportunities website, https://academiccareers.uchicago.edu, select requisition #03395, and upload 1) curriculum vitae; 2) cover letter (no longer than 3 pages in length) describing your academic specialty and teaching interests; 3) teaching portfolio include a teaching statement (not to exceed 750 words) describing the applicants methods and goals in teaching a text in the Humanities Core.  Applicants should write about a text of their own choosing (examples include  Homer’s Iliad, Plato’s Phaedrus, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Augustine’s Confessions, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, or Wright’s Native Son); 4) proof of Ph.D. (copy of diploma or official transcript); 5) names and contact information for two references.  Teaching evaluations (not older than two years) is optional.  

Applications must be completed by August 18, 2017. Only complete applications will be considered.

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