2027-28 Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in the Management Communication Program

2027-28 Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in the Management Communication Program . New York University: NYU - NY: Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Management Communication Program . New York, NY .

The Management Communication Program at the Stern School of Business is accepting applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP). This position is designed for recent (within 4 years) PhD recipients. The VAP will teach 4 sections in the first-year, writing-intensive courses required in Stern's undergraduate program: Commerce & Culture (fall) and Business & Society (spring). This writing-intensive curriculum examines the relationship between business and society to build students’ writing and critical-thinking skills while introducing them to business inquiry.

The fall course, Commerce & Culture, focuses on representations of business in fiction—novels, films, plays, and short stories. Through discussion-based sessions and analytical papers, students examine how texts portray the interplay of market forces, society, and individuals. The spring course, Business & Society, turns to the theoretical texts underlying economic and business discourse (from Adam Smith to Elinor Ostrom to R. Edward Freeman), teaching students to engage with conceptual texts and apply them to contemporary business situations.

Writing assignments include analytical claims about conceptual ideas, research-based analysis of social issues, and proposals for business action. In addition to teaching these small, interdisciplinary seminar classes, VAPs will work closely with an assigned faculty mentor, coordinate with course directors about texts or concepts from their area of expertise that may add to the curriculum, and have the opportunity to take on additional roles such as supervising the courses' undergraduate teaching fellows or developing instructional programming. Appointments are for an initial term of two years, and may be renewed for up to one additional year, for a maximum appointment period of three years, contingent upon satisfactory performance reviews, program teaching needs, and mutual agreement. VAPs are non-tenure track.

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $60,000 - $80,000. This pay range represents base pay only (for 9 months) and excludes any additional items such as incentives, bonuses, clinical compensation, or other items. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. . Candidates should hold a doctorate degree in a discipline grounded in text-based analysis, preferably with specific or complementary interest in connections to business/economics/markets.

Candidates should have received their degree within the past 4 years or have successfully defended their doctoral dissertation prior to appointment. Successful instructors in these first-year courses come from a wide range of fields, including Literature, Sociology, History, and Media Studies, and often bring an interdisciplinary approach. Experience engaging university students in thinking through class discussion and writing is ideal. . Applicants should submit to Interfolio a letter of application, curriculum vitae , teaching portfolio (dependent on experience, but might include a teaching statement, two syllabi from courses previously taught or created, teaching evaluations, and one or two sample assignments), two letters of recommendation, as well as any additional materials relevant to evaluating the candidate’s potential.

Application should be received no later than January 31, 2027.