Visiting Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies

The Women’s and Gender Studies Department in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University seeks candidates for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor faculty position beginning Fall semester 2025. Our department is home to a thriving Women’s and Gender Studies major and minor program and, as of Fall 2025, will also house a minor in LGBTQ+ Studies and Disability Studies. We welcome a broad range of scholars from the humanities and social sciences whose work and teaching expertise will expand our department’s strengths and further our commitment to diversity, social justice, and inclusive pedagogy.

The successful candidate will teach the lower-division course WGST 1100: Race and Gender in the Contemporary U.S., as well as other lower-division classes (course descriptions can be found here). Depending on their expertise, they may also be invited to design and lead an upper-division seminar in their area of specialization. We highly value scholarship and teaching that advance interdisciplinary perspectives using transnational, Indigenous, and critical race approaches to Gender Studies, Disability Studies, and LGBTQ+ Studies. We encourage teacher-scholars with doctoral degrees in Women’s and Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, or related interdisciplinary fields to apply. Candidates holding PhDs in other social science and humanities disciplines with designated emphases in these areas will also be considered. While a PhD is required, ABD applicants who anticipate completing their doctorate by August 15, 2025, are welcome to apply.

The Department places a high priority on intersectional perspectives, structural justice, and inclusive pedagogy in fostering academic excellence. Candidates must show promise in both research and teaching.

Application Process

Interested applicants are invited to submit application materials via the LMU Human Resources application portal. Applicants must include:

• A cover letter addressing research and teaching experience, including a discussion of how they approach feminist and/or queer methods in their teaching. Candidates may choose to describe how they would teach in a dream course or within the department’s introductory course.
• Curriculum vitae.
• Writing sample.

Three letters of recommendation must be submitted separately to wgst@lmu.edu. Only online applications will be accepted. Please direct questions to Mairead.sullivan@lmu.edu. We will begin our review of applications on March 21, 2025. The application will remain open until the position is filled.

Faculty Regular

Reasonable expected salary: $68,640.00

Loyola Marymount University, a Carnegie classified R2 institution in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks outstanding applicants who value its mission and share its commitment to inclusive excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an environment free from discrimination and harassment as defined by federal, state and local law. We invite all persons in the full diversity of their being, life experience, and beliefs to apply. (Visit www.lmu.edu for more information.)