Core Teaching Fellow

Mount Saint Mary's University•Emmitsburg, MD

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg Maryland is seeking to hire a full-time teaching fellow for its common, integrated, sequential interdisciplinary core curriculum. The positions will begin August 17, 2026. The fellowship will be renewable contingent upon satisfactory evaluations and budgetary conditions.

Requirements

Applicants should be ABD or have earned a PH.D.
Provide a cover letter addressing qualifications.
Provide a curriculum vitae.
Provide a teaching philosophy statement.
Provide teaching evaluations (if available).

Nice To Haves

Specialty or competence in systematic theology.
Competency in teaching philosophy core classes.

Responsibilities

Teach 4-3 courses.
Teach in the Mount’s First Year Symposium, the introductory course in the Mount’s core curriculum, which functions as students’ introduction to college level writing and research, draws on the reading of great authors to engage students in the questions, “What does it mean to be human? What does it take to live significantly? And how are humans responsible to others?”
Serve as students’ academic advisors during the freshman year.
Teach theology courses in our common, sequential core: Foundations of Theology and Made in God’s Image.
Explain how the candidate’s experience and specialties position them to teach transformative theology courses, in deep engagement with the Catholic tradition, to a broad variety of contemporary college undergraduates.
Teach philosophy core classes.