The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for two renewable, full-time Assistant Teaching Professor positions in Spanish Language and Culture. SCU is a welcoming and inclusive community of teaching scholars whose work is grounded in the university's fundamental values. Those values, which include academic excellence, social justice, and community engagement, are infused with a culture of care that defines our community-upholding the dignity of all. The university draws on the many resources of the greater Bay Area, including Silicon Valley, where we are located. We will be looking primarily for candidates with success in proficiency-based and Standards-oriented language teaching at the lower division level. We especially welcome documented expertise in digital media and information technology in the language classroom. We are looking for profiles focusing on at least one of these areas of expertise, applied to the Spanish classroom: LGBTQI+ Studies, Environmental Studies, Afro-Hispanic Studies, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Translation and Interpretation, Spanish for Heritage Speakers, Language Testing and Assessment, or other related areas. Demonstrated experience in Medical Humanities or Spanish for the professions are a plus but not required and candidates must demonstrate superior ability to integrate the teaching of language, cultural awareness and critical thinking at all levels of instruction, expertise with proficiency and standards-based assessment, and creativity in course design and development so as to contribute to our department's continued efforts to promote global competence in the Jesuit model of education. The successful candidate will start on September 1, 2026. This is primarily a teaching position. The teaching load consists of seven courses (primarily lower-division, with opportunities to teach upper-division), distributed across three quarters (e.g., 2-3-2), which constitutes 70% of any annual evaluation. The successful candidate will be expected to also engage in professional activity (15%) and perform service (15%) for the department, college, and university. SCU is on the quarter system. Assistant Teaching Professors are appointed for an initial term of three years. Reappointment to subsequent terms of three years depends upon the availability of funds, persistent programmatic need, and superior teaching, service, and professional activity. Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor and then Teaching Professor is possible under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement. As with most of the departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures is strictly an undergraduate program. Experience working with diverse groups of students is valued.