"Visiting Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures"

Fairfield University is a co-educational, comprehensive Jesuit university with a 200-acre campus located along the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, CT. The University is comprised of approximately 3,500 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students pursuing degrees within 5 schools: The College of Arts and Sciences, The Charles F. Dolan School of Business, The School of Engineering, The Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies, and School of Education and Human Development. As an expression of our Jesuit, Catholic mission and identity, Fairfield embraces a liberal humanistic approach to education, encouraging critical thinking, cultivating free and open inquiry, and fostering ethical and religious values.

Job Description:

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fairfield University’s Meditz College of Arts and Sciences invites applications for a full-time non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian in any field beginning fall 2026 pending final budget approval. Applicants must have completed a PhD in Italian Studies or a related field by the time of their appointment.

We welcome applicants who demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and innovative research. We are particularly interested in those with experience developing new technologies and methodologies for the language classroom. The successful candidate will teach 4 courses per semester and will be a dynamic teacher of all levels of Italian language as well as of upper-level content courses.

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures consists of 15 full-time faculty members representing a range of specialties. It currently offers 9 languages and majors and minors in French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Salary and benefits for the position are highly competitive. Fairfield University is a Jesuit Catholic university, consistently ranked as a top comprehensive university in New England, located in the scenic shoreline community of Fairfield, CT, one hour from New York City along Long Island Sound. Our five Colleges and Professional Schools enroll approximately 5,300 undergraduate and 1,400 graduate students.

For full consideration, please click “Apply Now” and submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching philosophy, 2-3 recent course evaluations, names of three references, and a teaching video (if available). Review of applications will start immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Please direct questions to Dr. Mary Ann Carolan, Search Committee Chair, at mcarolan@fairfield.edu.

Category: Academic - Faculty Non-Tenure Track