We’re hiring ! The Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall of academic year 2026-27. We seek candidates with scholarly expertise in the theory and history of rhetoric, preferably with a pre-contemporary focus, and a secondary scholarly investment in any sub-discipline in rhetoric and writing studies that would contribute to our graduate and undergraduate programs.
Position expectations include maintaining an active research agenda, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, directing dissertations, area exams, and honors theses, and engaging in the service missions of the Department, the College, and the University.
The selected candidate will have the opportunity to design and teach an array of courses that contribute to the undergraduate major in Rhetoric & Writing and the Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Writing Studies, and they will enjoy the full support of our nationally acclaimed sub-units: the University Writing Center (UWC) and the Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL).
The DRW boasts a dynamic, collegial, and internationally recognized faculty with interests in rhetorical history and theory; composition theory and pedagogy; public rhetorics; digital writing and rhetoric; visual, sonic, and computational rhetorics; feminist and cultural rhetorics; media studies; empirical research; and rhetoric and poetics.
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Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167807. Application deadline is early—August 15!
Jacqueline Rhodes, Ph.D.
Kelleher Centennial Professor of
Rhetoric and Composition
Director, University Writing Center
Department of Rhetoric and Writing
The University of Texas at Austin
208 W. 21st St., Stop B5500
Austin, TX 78712-1038
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