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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Penn State's Department of Landscape Architecture is seeking applications for a non-tenure track Assistant Teaching Professor position with a focus on the practice of contemporary landscape architectural design.

The nine-month position provides an opportunity for emerging professionals to delve into a research inquiry through studio or seminar courses, develop research methods and tools in an engaged and innovative community of scholars, and deepen critical design pedagogy in both the graduate (MLA) and undergraduate (BLA) programs.

The successful candidate will teach two courses per semester. Courses will draw on the instructor's strengths and interests, and may include design studios, landscape representation, landscape technologies, or landscape architectural theory. Connections to professional practice and current emerging trends in the profession are highly desirable.

We seek applicants who teach through their own work as well as through classes and critiques, who work effectively with faculty, staff and students from diverse backgrounds, and who contribute to the department's mission: Inspired work grounded in environmental and social good. Candidates should have experience in teaching and professional practice, and a love of learning and designing.

Candidates must be skilled at nurturing creative design explorations that integrate the array of disciplines now informing landscape architectural practice, and at developing these skills in students in both studio and non-studio settings. The department seeks individuals who have compelling interests, clear ideas and experience in conveying lessons from the practice of landscape architecture to a new generation of landscape architects, especially as these lessons pertain to emerging landscape challenges of the 21st century.

This full-time non-tenure track term appointment will start on August 15, 2025 and is funded through June 30, 2026, with the possibility of renewal for the following academic year. Full University benefits apply.

Qualifications A terminal degree in Landscape Architecture or a related discipline, with at least one professional degree in Landscape Architecture. A minimum of one year of teaching, including as a teaching assistant, OR one year of professional practice, with a preference for candidates who have both professional and teaching experiences. Licensure in landscape architecture is preferred.

To Apply To apply, submit: (1) a current C.V. or resume; (2) a cover letter describing your research or creative practice focus and teaching approach and interests; (3) names of three references; (4) a portfolio of your creative work and research, including professional projects and/or publications. Upload these materials to Penn State's electronic application system: [TK - link and listing number] For full consideration, submissions must be received by April 15, 2025 however, applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Please direct any questions to Department Head Roxi Thoren atrthoren@psu.edu.

About the Department Penn State Landscape Architecture resides in the Stuckeman School, which also houses the Departments of Architecture and Graphic Design. Generous endowments support several Chairs, Professorships, and grant opportunities, and a so provide funding for faculty travel, visiting critics, lectures and exhibitions, research assistants, and course enhancement funds. The Stuckeman School includes three research centers: the Hamer Center for Community Design, the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, and E+D: Ecology + Design. All three offer a robust research community, facilitation of community and industry connections, grants assistance, and funding for student research support, course support, and research travel.

The Department offers professionally accredited BLA and MLA degrees, a post-professional MS in Landscape Architecture, a landscape architecture research track under the PhD in Architecture, as well as a Minor in Landscape Architecture that attracts students from many disciplines throughout the college and university.

Penn State is an internationally highly ranked Tier 1 research institution and land grant university located in State College, in central Pennsylvania's ridge & valley system, surrounded by productive farmland and wooded mountains, and within driving distance of several major east coast cities including Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.

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