"Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian"

Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian

The Russian Department at Middlebury College announces an opening for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Russian beginning the Fall semester of 2026. Superior language proficiency in both Russian and English are required. The area of specialization for the position is open.

The successful candidate will primarily teach Russian language courses at all levels, from beginning to advanced, and potentially one content course in English. As part of a full teaching load, the candidate will also occasionally contribute to Middlebury's First Year Seminar Program and Winter Term course offerings. Candidates must hold a PhD degree, and must have prior experience teaching Russian at the college level, preferably in a liberal arts college setting.

Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in both faculty teaching, research, and service. It is also an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering a truly open, and supportive learning, teaching, and working environment. The College hires faculty from a myriad of life experiences, cultures, frames of reference, social identities, and learning perspectives to help cultivate and advance innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our talented and distinguished student body. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.

The deadline for submitting application materials is December 30, 2025.

Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. At Middlebury, we strive to make our campus a respectful, engaged community that embraces difference, and a full range of views and opinions, with all the complexity and individuality each person brings. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to members of the search committee. The letter should focus on the candidate's pedagogical approach to teaching, their prior experience teaching Russian to nonnative speakers at the college level, non-language courses that the candidate would be interested to teach, and the candidate's research interests. In addition, the application must include (i) an up to date CV, (ii) a syllabus for a Russian language class that the candidate previously taught at the first or second year level, and (iii) at least one syllabus of a non-language class in English that the candidate either previously taught or would like to teach in the future (iv), a confidential letter of recommendation which speaks to teaching ability which is to be submitted via Interfolio. Candidates who make it to the preliminary interview stage will also be asked to arrange for two additional confidential and updated letters of recommendation, at least one of which must speak to teaching ability, to be submitted directly by the recommenders to Interfolio. Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to Timothy Portice, Associate Professor of Russian and Chair of the Russian Department, at tportice@middlebury.edu.

Salary range: $92,577-96,355.

To apply, please follow this link: https://apply.interfolio.com/177878