Job: Emory Writing Program: Assist. Teaching Professor

Reposting this job opportunity as we enter into the thick of application season. Delighted to answer any questions about the position, and please circulate widely!

The Emory Writing Program at Emory University is hiring a teaching-track faculty colleague in technical/professional communication and cultural rhetorics. This hire will join a robust community of teacher scholars in a multi-year, non-tenure track appointment with opportunities for professional development, promotion, and research support.

We are especially interested in applicants who can contribute expertise in Black rhetorical traditions and/or digital race and information studies. The successful applicant will design and teach undergraduate courses across the Emory College of Arts and Sciences that emphasize our program’s strengths in public and technical/professional writing, writing with quantitative data, digital rhetorics, and more. Applicants could grow our program through their work with critical race studies, critical data studies, data visualization and visual rhetorics, or critical AI studies. They will also have the chance to contribute to graduate education and mentorship in the Dept of English and work amongst the University’s many interdisciplinary programs and departments.

Applicants should have:

  • PhD specializing in composition and rhetoric, writing studies, or related field.
  • Demonstrated expertise in technical communication, writing with quantitative data, digital rhetorics, or other area of digital humanities.
  • Demonstrated expertise in cultural rhetorics, including but not limited to Black, Asian/American, Latine/o/a/x, Indigenous, and/or Middle Eastern rhetorics.

You can find the complete job posting here on Interfolio: http://apply.interfolio.com/156162

All applications submitted before Nov 27 will be given full consideration.

Please share widely with any interested parties and feel free to direct questions to Sarah Salter, Director Emory Writing Program and search committee chair, at sarah.h.salter.

Sarah H. Salter PhD (she/her)

Professor of Pedagogy, English Department

Director, Emory Writing Program

Emory University Atlanta GA

Emory’s Atlanta campus is located on the ancestral homeland of the Mvskoke Nation, whose members have lived with the land since time immemorial. The Nation was forcibly Removed in 1821.

Editor, American Periodicals

Secretary, Council of Editors of Learned Journals