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

New York University; New York (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Management Communication Program, is inviting applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor position. The successful candidate will teach four sections of first-year writing-intensive courses and work with a faculty mentor to enrich the curriculum.

The appointment is two years, with possible renewal for up to one additional year, non-tenure track, with a competitive base salary and benefits. Equity and inclusion are core NYU values.

Qualifications

• Doctorate in a field grounded in text-based analysis, awarded within the last 4 years or defended prior to appointment.
• Interdisciplinary approach to literature, sociology, history, or media studies.
• Experience engaging university students in discussion and writing is ideal.

Responsibilities

• Teach four sections in first-year writing-intensive courses for Stern's undergraduate program: Commerce & Culture (fall) and Business & Society (spring).
• Coordinate with course directors and mentors, select texts, and develop instructional materials.
• Supervise undergraduate teaching fellows and contribute to instructional programming.

Skills

Teaching Writing-Intensive Courses

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Education

PhD in a text-based analysis field

Job description

New York University: NYU - NY: Leonard N. Stern School of Business: Management Communication Program

Location

New York, NY

Open Date

Oct 29, 2026

Deadline

Jan 31, 2027 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description

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.

Qualifications

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.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its recruitment and hiring process without regard to age, alienage, caregiver status, childbirth, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, domestic violence victim status, ethnicity, familial status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital status, military status, national origin, parental status, partnership status, predisposing genetic characteristics, pregnancy, race, religion, reproductive health decision making, sex, sexual orientation, unemployment status, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. All interested persons are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.

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