Those with a specialization in Technical Communication or related areas are encouraged to apply for a tenure-line Assistant Professor position with a 2/2 teaching load in Digital Humanities with a partial appointment (25% teaching) in our new School of Data Science. The salary range for this position is $77,000-$80,000 (with a possible additional increment from the School for Data Science). The Department of English, with more than 30 full-time faculty, 300 majors, and 60 graduate students, offers BA and MA degrees with area emphases in Creative Writing, Literature and Culture, Children’s Literature, Linguistics, Pedagogy, and Technical/Professional Writing. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which is projected to achieve R1 status in 2025, is the second largest institution within the UNC system. This past Fall, we enrolled over 31,000 students and experienced record growth with our incoming first-year class and graduate programs. Nearly 42% of our students identify as members of historically underrepresented groups and 33% of undergraduates identify as first-generation college students. The university is located in the largest city in North Carolina, with a metro population of over 2,800,000 and home to the seventh busiest airport worldwide. Please forward this ad to those you know who might be interested in this position.
The Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is conducting a search for an Assistant Professor of English in Digital Humanities with a Partial Appointment in Data Science.
The position has a 2-2 teaching load in the English Department with shared teaching responsibilities in the School of Data Science.
Successful candidates will have expertise in areas such as archival studies; born-digital literature and/or media; computational and/or corpus linguistics; cultural analytics; data visualization; digitally mediated communication; distance reading; human-computer interaction; narratology; science, technology, and society; interface design and multimediality; or related areas.
The full announcement and description for the position can be found here.
Screening of applicants will begin on Nov. 20, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. Please direct inquiries to the Chair of the Search Committee, Professor Juan Meneses, at juan.meneses.
Gregory A. Wickliff, PhD
Associate Professor of English
University of North Carolina at Charlotte