Assistant Teaching Professor at Villanova University – Villanova, Pennsylvania

Villanova University’s first-year seminar program, the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program (ACSP), seeks one full-time continuing non-tenure track (CNT) faculty members to teach its two-semester humanities seminar. With a reading list grounded in the Augustinian, Catholic, and liberal arts traditions, the Augustine and Culture Seminar (ACS) is reading-and-writing-intensive and also facilitates student engagement in the intellectual, cultural, and artistic life of the University and the greater Philadelphia area. Students from all four colleges (Liberal Arts & Sciences, Nursing, Engineering, and Business) take the two courses (1000 Ancients and 1001 Moderns) in this collegial program taught by 20+ full-time faculty from a wide range of disciplines. A signature feature of the first-year experience at Villanova is the Communitas: First-Year Learning Community program that is a result of the coordinated effort between ACSP and the Division of Student Life.

The position is a renewable 12-month academic appointment at the rank of assistant teaching professor with a 2/2 teaching load (classes capped at 16).The successful candidate will provide evidence of teaching effectiveness or potential and demonstrate a willingness to explore and teach the Augustinian and Catholic intellectual traditions as well as texts in and outside of one’s discipline and areas of expertise. The position is primarily and essentially a teaching position, and ACSP cultivates a cooperative community of teacher-scholars dedicated to meeting the perennial and the changing needs of our students through an ongoing program of faculty development activities.

CNT faculty in ACSP are expected to engage in service to the program, college, and university. CNT faculty at Villanova are eligible for promotion. Villanova offers a competitive benefits package to all full-time faculty.

Applicants must apply on-line at http://jobs.villanova.edu. All materials must be received by April 20, 2026. Questions about the position can be directed to Dr. Gregory Hoskins, Director of the Augustine and Culture Seminar Program at Gregory.hoskins@villanova.edu or Mary Beth Simmons, Senior Director of the Writing Center at mary.beth.simmons@villanova.edu

For more information about ACSP and about Communitas: First-Year Learning Community, please see the respective websites:

Candidates invited to interview must provide:

Competitive