Apply Now: Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor of Great Books at Belmont Abbey College

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Apply Now: Assistant/Associate Professor of Great Books, Belmont Abbey College

 

Belmont Abbey Honors College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate professor position to begin August 1, 2022.

Responsibilities will include a 4/4 teaching load, primarily in the Great Books program, and service to the students in the Honors College. Service includes being present at Honors College social and academic events, student advising, helping with recruitment, and contributing to the development of the program through fundraising and awareness efforts when appropriate.

First and foremost, a successful candidate must view his or her teaching in light of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and as directed towards having students encounter the fundamental human questions through the study of the great books of Western Civilization. The candidate should also be excited about helping to lead a community of morally serious and intellectually curious students.

As an interdisciplinary program, the position is open to those with the Ph.D in a number of fields. However, most faculty who teach in the program come from the humanities or social sciences. Successful candidates should be excited about the possibility of teaching courses and texts that are not in their normal area of expertise and should be open to employing the Socratic seminar method of teaching. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

The successful candidate will be a talented and dedicated academic deeply and enthusiastically committed to the Catholic mission of Belmont Abbey College. Preference will be given to those candidates who can demonstrate 1) a record of excellence in undergraduate teaching and a sense of teaching as a vocation; 2) a philosophy of teaching that supports the approach to education expressed in St. John Paul II’s Ex Corde Ecclesiae; and 3) a strong desire to teach at a liberal arts institution where the academic program is “guided by the Catholic intellectual tradition and the Benedictine spirit of prayer and learning.”

Qualifications:

As an interdisciplinary program, the position is open to those with the Ph.D in a number of fields. However, most faculty who teach in the program come from the humanities or social sciences.

Application Instructions:

Please apply by email to facultysearch@bac.edu using the subject line “Great Books Search.” Include:

  1. a letter of application;
  2. a curriculum vitae;
  3. the names and contact information of at least three references;
  4. and a written response in which you explain how your work engages with the Catholic intellectual tradition in the context of a Benedictine liberal arts college and how your own faith tradition informs your vocation as teacher and scholar.

(Evidence of teaching excellence and official transcripts are optional at this stage but required for interview.)

For more information and to apply, click here >>

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

 


 

From the school

Belmont Abbey College educates students in the liberal arts and sciences so that in all things God may be glorified. We are guided by the Catholic intellectual tradition and rooted in the Benedictine hallmarks. Both inside and outside the classroom, we provide programs that foster virtue and excellence.

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