Position Announcement: Assistant Professor in Professional Writing and Cultural Rhetorics (tenure-track) at Colorado State University
The Department of English at Colorado State University seeks applicants for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Cultural Rhetorics. We especially encourage candidates who have cultivated an active commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, social and environmental justice, anti-racism, culturally sustaining practice, and/or access/ibility within their research, teaching, and service programs. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate an active research and teaching program at the nexus of professional writing and cultural rhetorics.
This is a tenure-track, 9-month appointment beginning August 16, 2025. The successful candidate will teach two courses per semester. Post-tenure there is an expectation that the successful candidate will serve a term/s as a program director within the department. Full job description here: https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/150428
Responsibilities
- Maintain an equity-driven research program in Writing Studies.
- Teach four courses per year in the University Composition Program (UCP), Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy (WRL) English B.A. concentration, or Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Change (WRSC) Graduate M.A. program, and/or English Department until tenure.
- Contribute to developing and teaching courses and certificates in culturally-informed professional writing, including participating in professional development curriculum for department instructors and graduate teaching assistants.
- Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students.
- Collaborate with faculty, students, university stakeholders, and community partners on strategic initiatives associated with professional writing and cultural rhetorics at CSU.
- Provide service to the department, college, university, and community.
- Serve a term(s) post tenure in a programmatic leadership role within the WRL/WRSC/UCP programs (e.g., Director of Writing Center; Director of WRSC MA Program; Director of WRL BA Program; Director of University Composition Program; Director of gtPathways).
Department Information
The English department at CSU is an energetic and diverse community of poets and linguists, literacy researchers and teacher educators, novelists and literary scholars, and rhetoricians and composition specialists. This department is home to 35 tenure stream faculty, 48 contract, continuing, or adjunct faculty, 6 administrative personnel, and approximately 325 undergraduate majors and 75 graduate students.
We share a passion for exploring the multiple and dynamic ways that the English language is used to meet the demands of life in the twenty-first century. Students, staff, and faculty are committed to inclusive excellence, intellectual growth, and the creation of a more just and sustainable world. Moreover, the department houses the University Composition program that serves over 6,000 students across lower- and upper-division writing and rhetoric courses focused on preparing students to succeed in university and professional writing contexts. We offer ten lower-division and upper-division courses in writing and rhetoric, including College Composition (CO150), Writing in the Disciplines: Sciences (CO301B), Writing in Digital Environments (CO302), Writing and Style (CO401), and Principles of Digital Rhetoric and Design (CO402). To learn more about the Department, visit our website at: https://english.colostate.edu/
The salary range for this position is $72,000-76,000. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) on October 18, 2024.
Questions can be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Timothy Amidon (tim.amidon).
Tobi Jacobi
(she, her)
University Composition Program
Professor of English and Assistant Chair
Community Literacy Center Director