Position(s): Lecturer in Classics

Starting Date: September 22, 2025

Salary: Approximately $8,872.12 per course (pending final budget approval) Appointment is eligible for renewal depending on need, funding and performance.

*** All appointments are contingent upon the appointee being able to provide, in accord with
Federal law, evidence of authorization to work in the United States ***

*** This position is funded pending enrollment ***

*** Internal candidates receive first consideration ***

Qualifications:

Minimum requirements are an M.A or higher in Classics or a related field. Priority will be given to candidates with training in Classical Studies and experience and success in teaching Classics at an American university.

Ph.D. or ABD is a preferred qualification. So too is experience teaching Classical receptions.

Duties:

Duties consists in teaching 8 courses in Classics, which may vary slightly from year to year; courses of instruction include lower-division lecture courses, elementary Latin, as well as advanced readings courses in Latin and Greek. Duties also consist in undergraduate student advising, service to the Classics program, and support of UCR undergraduate students and the major in Classical Studies.

It is the expectation of the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages that all language lecturers adhere to departmental norms for language instruction as well as to curricular and pedagogical norms in the language program (or programs) in which they teach.

Courses of instruction:

Fall:
Classics 10b, "Ancient Civilization: Classical Greece"
Latin 001, "Introduction to Latin"
Latin 101g, "Virgil"

Winter:
Classics 10c, "Ancient Civilization: Rome"
Latin 002, "Introduction to Latin"
Greek 101t, "Hellenistic and Later Greek"

Spring:
Latin 003, "Introduction to Latin"
Latin 101o, "Livy"

Application Procedure:
Please provide cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample syllabus or syllabi, teaching evaluations (written and numeric) and 3 letters of recommendation. Materials should be uploaded using UCR's on-line application system:

https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/JPF02130. Letters of recommendation must be confidential. Please use the APRecruit system to have your recommenders upload them directly.

Applicants who use Interfolio should use the feature that allows letters to be uploaded directly into AP Recruit. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio refers to this as "Online Application Deliveries". The following link at Interfolio shows how to set up the feature: https://product-help.interfolio.com

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until position is filled. To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by Aug. 18, 2025.

Department Contact person: Kyle Khellaf (kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu)