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Boston College: Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences: Slavic & Eastern Languages

Location: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

Description:

Boston College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics for the academic year 2026-2027, renewable for a second year. This is a full-time, non-tenure-track appointment in Linguistics, an academic unit housed within the Department of Eastern, Slavic, and German Studies. The position entails a 2/3 teaching load, beginning July 1, 2026.

Courses to be taught include:

• A single-semester introduction to Linguistics, our gateway course into the Linguistics major and minor
• Two upper-division courses designed for Linguistics majors and minors, in any two of these subareas:

Field Methods
Phonetics and Phonology
Syntax (a second-semester course)
Semantics
Morphology

• Two courses that would enroll both early majors / minors in Linguistics alongside students with no background in the field. Some plausible topics include (but are not limited to) constructed languages; language and the law; bilingualism; corpus linguistics; introduction to computational linguistics; the history and structure of a specific language or language family.

The expected 9-month salary range (paid over 12 months) for this position is $76,000 - $79,000. The actual pay offered to the selected candidate will depend based on factors such as, but not limited to, candidate qualifications and prior experience, scope of responsibilities, internal equity, and market considerations.

Qualifications:

PhD in Linguistics in hand
Excellence and breadth in teaching
Experience working with both Linguistics majors and non-Linguistics majors