Employment
Tenure-Track Positions
Assistant Professor: Japanese
The Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages at San Diego State University seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member in Japanese at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin Fall 2024. The candidate is expected to have native or near-native proficiency in Japanese and the ability to teach in Japanese and English.
Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.
Assistant Professor: Syntax/Semantics
The Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages at San Diego State University seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant Professor with expertise in syntax or semantics, to begin Fall 2024. Candidates should conduct research in formal syntax or formal semantics but possess the ability to teach undergraduate courses in both areas and Master’s-level courses in the area of primary expertise. Additional expertise in fieldwork, language documentation, experimental methods, or computational linguistics is highly desirable.
Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin September 15, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.
Part-Time and Temporary Lecturers
The Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages is accepting applications
for its pool of part-time and temporary lecturers to teach one or more courses in
the following areas: Developmental Writing for international/bilingual students, College
Composition and Advanced Composition for international/bilingual students, and Academic
Reading and Writing for Second Language Students. View current positions available for temporary lecturers.
Teaching Associates
Teaching Associates typically are responsible for providing classroom and/or laboratory instruction, making assignments to students, preparing course materials, administering examinations, assessing student performance, tutoring students and determining course grades. Also, incumbents may assist faculty with field experience, supervision, simulation exercises and/or research projects. View current positions available for teaching associates.
Graduate Assistants
Typical activities of Graduate Assistants may include: assisting in the instruction of students by conducting small discussion groups related to large lecture or television courses and the like, supervising laboratory periods, workshops, production courses or other course activities, assisting by handling equipment, performing demonstrations, maintaining office hours to provide direct individual contact between student and graduate assistant, clarifying course material or course content for students, providing assistance to faculty conducting authorized research by collecting and arranging data, developing source materials, summarizing reports, searching the literature and compiling bibliographies, developing and operating research equipment, preparing and caring for research materials, assisting in the conduct of experiments, etc., and/or generally assisting faculty in evaluating student work and examinations, preparing course materials and aids, or performing other functions requiring knowledge and background beyond that generally possessed by undergraduate assistants.
Instructional Student Assistants
Under supervision, Instructional Student Assistants perform teaching, grading or tutoring duties for the majority of work hours in a given appointment in a given academic department or equivalent administrative unit over the course of an academic term. View current positions available for student assistants.