Employment Opportunities

Fuel your passion for teaching, research, and mentoring by exploring the job opportunities in the College of Arts and Letters.

Join us and you’ll find a deep commitment to rigorous intellectual debate in a diverse academic community. Teach in a city known for its sandy beaches, warm weather, and proximity to the U.S./Mexico border. 

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Tenure-Track Faculty Positions

Assistant Professor: Black Atlantic Literature and Culture

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University seeks a scholar of Black Atlantic and/ or Diasporic Literature and Culture for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level.  We are open to relevant areas of specialization or secondary concentration that might include, but are not limited to, the literatures and languages of the Caribbean, post-colonial literature and theory, and the literatures of Atlantic-adjacent countries or regions. SDSU’s English and Comparative Literature department offers a range of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including several in creative writing, and the successful candidate will be encouraged to contribute to the department’s broad commitment to diversity by meeting curricular needs and proposing new areas of study. 

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin October 31, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.

Assistant Professor: Composition

The Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies at San Diego State University seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of assistant professor with pedagogical knowledge and scholarly expertise in Composition & Rhetoric to serve as Director of Writing, beginning Fall 2024.  Qualifications for the position include an earned Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing Studies, or a closely related field at the time of hire, teaching and writing program administration experience, and demonstrated scholarly activity.   

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin October 23, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.

Assistant Professor: Environmental Sustainability Geographer

The Department of Geography at San Diego State University (SDSU) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in the areas of Geography and Environmental Sustainability whose research, teaching, and outreach addresses issues of sustainability, resource management (water, food, energy, land), climate, development, and/or policy, with a focus on human-environment interactions from a human geography perspective.  

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin November 3, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.

Assistant Professor: Immigration Policy

The Department of Economics at San Diego State University invites applicants for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Labor Economics, with a strong preference for candidates with a research specialization in U.S. immigration policy.  The successful candidate will show promise in publishing in leading scholarly journals in economics and be able to teach courses at both the undergraduate and master’s levels. 

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin November 27, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.

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: Politics of East Asia

The Political Science Department at San Diego State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in East Asian Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin Fall 2024. Applicants should demonstrate a well-developed research agenda, a promise of sustained scholarship, and a record of effective teaching. 

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin September 21, 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.

Assistant Professor: Urban Geographer

The Department of Geography at San Diego State University (SDSU) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with expertise in urban geography to begin in Fall 2024. We are specifically looking for candidates whose research addresses social and/or racial inequalities and their relationships to individual, community, or population wellbeing from a geographic perspective using qualitative methods. 

Apply via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2023, and the position will remain open until filled.

Part-Time, Temporary Faculty Positions

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Staff & Management Positions

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