Full-time, Tenure-Track Humanities Faculty

Division: Academic Affairs; Humanities Division
Union Affiliarion: MSCA
Supervision Received: Humanities Department Chair and Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Supervision Exercised: Subordinate professional, classified, and student personnel in areas of responsibility

Massachusetts Maritime Academy invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Humanities beginning Fall 2027. The position is a 4/4 teaching load that includes teaching core courses (College Writing and Writing About Literature, depending on departmental needs) as well as upper-level courses.

General responsibilities:

• Ability to teach an academic course load of 12 credits per semester (Fall and Spring) within the Humanities Department. These duties will include teaching college writing and the ability to teach writing about literature, depending on departmental needs. Writing Faculty in the Humanities Department teach a wide range of electives based on faculty expertise and enrollment. The department’s curriculum may be viewed on the Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s website.
• Massachusetts Maritime Academy is a teaching-focused university, with faculty having many research possibilities and publication pathways towards reaching tenure.
• The selected candidate will be expected to participate in and complement the department’s goals and agendas, including the advancement of General Education throughout the Academy.
• Faculty are expected to serve as the academic advisors to assigned student advisees and follow all academic procedures and practices of Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
• All teaching positions at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy require an understanding of the Academy's unique mission and regimental structure.

Qualifications and Requirements

• A Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric, Technical or Professional Communication, and/or Writing Studies by Fall 2027.
• Experience teaching College Writing and the flexibility to teach first-year Writing about Literature.
• The Humanities Department values principles that foster community, broad representations of experiences and worldviews and will prioritize applications that directly incorporate these values into teaching, research, and service. We seek empathetic teachers, innovative scholars, and collaborative colleagues. We especially encourage candidates with skilled student-centric classroom design to apply. Successful candidates will be outstanding teachers and active contributors to the department, college, and local community.

• Demonstrated potential to fulfill evaluation criteria of teaching, service, and advising at the university level Academic rank of the successful candidate determined by licensure, academic background and experience.

  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• We are particularly seeking to hire a colleague with demonstrated interests in pedagogies that are democratic, engage with various local and global communities and their respective needs in our current society, and understand the lived experiences of varied embodiments in the classroom. Applicants should also demonstrate these commitments in their application materials.
• Secondary learning environments or experience with students’ transition from high school to college preferred
• Military, regimental, and/or non-traditional learning environments preferred
• Preferred candidates will demonstrate experience developing and facilitating curricular goals and/or assessment processes.
• Preferred experience with teaching Technical Writing and/or Business Communications electives.
• Candidates who can synthesize their research with teaching students with various perspectives, particularly those from non-traditional educational backgrounds, under-represented in higher education, and/or are first generation.
• Experience teaching in both face-to-face and online modalities.

• A record of effective teaching appropriate to the applicant’s career stage.

  
  

Salary: $63,000 - $68,000, based on education, qualifications and experience.

Academic rank of the successful candidate determined by licensure, academic background and experience.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy is a top-ranked, fully accredited, four-year, co-educational state university with 7 undergraduate degree programs focusing on science, engineering, technology, math and business that are highly regarded in the domestic and international maritime industry and its related business sectors. Located at the western end of the scenic Cape Cod Canal, MMA is an hour’s drive from the thriving urban communities of Boston, MA and Providence, RI and offers easy access to beautiful Buzzards Bay and the pristine beaches of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. The Academy offers generous benefits packages and competitive salaries commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Core Benefits

• Pension Eligible 10 year Vesting (ORP optional)
• Medical (eight different options) (Pretax)
• CVS Caremark Prescriptions
• Dental / Vision Discount through Union or Dept Of Higher Ed
• Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Long Term Disability
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Smart Plan Deferred Comp
• Liberal sick and vacation time and paid holidays
• Free parking

Additional Benefits

• Hinge Health
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Dependent Care Accounts (DCA)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• AFLAC - Additional Insurance options payroll deduction
• Metro Credit Union
• Tuition Reimbursement

Please note that benefits are subject to change at any time.

Applicants selected for interview must be prepared to deliver a twenty-minute presentation on a relevant topic provided by MMA.

Massachusetts Maritime Academy is a drug-free workplace, an Equal Opportunity Employer, and conducts employment verification through E-Verify.

Offers of employment will be contingent on successfully passing a pre-employment background check and drug screen.