Position Openings

Visiting Instructor of English

Alma College invites applications for a visiting instructor of English composition. This one-semester (Fall 2012) position would include teaching a minimum of three composition courses with an option for a fourth course for additional compensation. The position requires at least a M.A. in English and relevant teaching experience. The ideal candidate will have a commitment to liberal arts education at the undergraduate level in an environment emphasizing close faculty-student interaction.

Review of applications will start immediately and continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, vita, sample composition syllabus and assignment by email to: Laura von Wallmenich (vonwallmenich@alma.edu), Chair of the English Department, Alma College.

A Phi Beta Kappa institution, Alma is a selective, baccalaureate liberal arts college committed to academic excellence and an equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff, and student body. For more information about the College, visit www. alma.edu.

 

Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.

 

Faculty Profile

Dr. Andrew Thall
Departments: Mathematics and Computer Science

Dr. Andrew Thall is a man of many talents — as an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College, he majored in mathematics, but was only interested in pure mathematics theory. After college, he worked as a baker, and then in a photo lab, before going back to school part-time.

“When I began my graduate work at Carolina, I happened to wander into the computer science building,” the associate professor of mathematics and computer science says. “This was when they were designing their own graphics supercomputers and just starting to work with virtual reality. It was then I decided to study computers.”