Term Assistant Professor, English (Literature/Composition), Fall 2025

George Mason University Korea invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Literature and Composition position beginning August 2025. This is a full-time, non-tenure track position.

About the Position

This is a full-time instructional position, with the expectation of teaching 12 credit hours per semester. This is typically accomplished by teaching four 3-credit courses each semester. Term faculty are eligible for multi-year contracts and promotion. This position requires in-person teaching at Mason Korea; the work cannot be carried out remotely.

George Mason University has a strong institutional commitment to achieving excellence and diversity among its faculty and staff, and strongly encourages candidates to apply who will enrich Mason’s academic and culturally inclusive environment. All international hires include support for relocation expenses, furnished housing, home leave allowance, health insurance in Korea’s excellent health care system, and dependent tuition benefits. The initial term is one year, with the opportunity for renewal and multi-year contracts.

Responsibilities 

The primary responsibility of faculty in this position will be to teach a combination of required second-year literature, first-year composition, and/or advanced composition courses in the Mason Core (Mason’s general education program). While the literature courses have flexibility of content, the composition courses are tightly coordinated courses and faculty are expected to follow the curricular approaches of the home department in at the US campus. During the first year, faculty new to teaching in Mason’s Composition program are required to teach program-designed curricula.

Qualifications 

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in English language literature
• At least one year’s experience teaching college-level composition in a U.S. institution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Graduate coursework in composition pedagogy
• Experience with second language pedagogies

Application Instructions:

For full consideration, applicants should do the following by August 31, 2024.

Submit applications in our hiring site (click on "Apply for this Job" on the right)

• Complete and submit the online application;
• Upload the following required documents:
  • a cover letter that includes a brief explanation of how the candidate has employed pedagogical approaches that serve diverse student populations such as Mason’s,
  • a current C.V., and
  • a syllabus (with calendar) and assignment from a recent college-level composition class.

If selected for an interview, we will request two letters of recommendation.

About George Mason Korea

George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with national distinction in both academics and research. It is among the 115 or so top “R1” ranked research universities in the US and in the top 200 of the Shanghai World Ranking of Universities. A public university located in Fairfax Virginia, George Mason is the largest and most diverse university in Virginia with students and faculty from all 50 states and over 135 countries studying in over 200 degree programs.

George Mason University Korea is George Mason’s campus in Songdo, South Korea. Mason Korea was established as part of George Mason University’s commitment to education on a global scale and its belief in the power of international perspective and connection. Mason Korea is located on the Incheon Global Campus (IGC), which it shares with three other international branch campuses. Mason Korea students, staff, and faculty have access to modern facilities and resources on the IGC for a terrific living and work environment. Songdo, South Korea is a modern “smart” city designed from the start with large parks, plentiful walking and bike paths, and excellent public transportation. Songdo is convenient to Korea’s Incheon International Airport—around a half hour by car—as well as to the capital city of Seoul—around an hour by car. Further information on Mason Korea can be found at: http://masonkorea.gmu.edu/.