Wake Forest University’s Department of Classics invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level beginning July 1, 2022. The area of specialization is open; it must include race, racism, and Greek & Roman studies as a substantial part of the broader scholarly agenda. A Ph.D. in Classics or a related area is required by start of employment. The teaching load is 3–2/2–2 (nine courses over two years), with a semester of leave in the third or fourth year on the tenure track (or a full year at half pay).

Candidates should be ready to teach courses in language, literature, and culture that will appeal to students in and out of Classics. We also welcome candidates with expertise in material culture, art history, archaeology, or religion. Candidates should specifically be prepared and eager to teach the department’s Classics Beyond Whiteness course in rotation with other department faculty, as well as courses in the College’s core curriculum, which includes first-year seminars and the recently adopted Power, Inequity, and Global Contexts curriculum. Priorities for this search include advancement of the department’s Diversity Action Plan. Faculty in the Classics department are actively engaged in interdisciplinary work and regularly collaborate with other departments and programs, such as the Department of Women’s Gender, & Sexuality Studies and the new African American Studies Program, and we are seeking a candidate who will value and expand such interdepartmental connections.