Teaching Professor (all ranks)/Asst Director, Writing Programs (Fiscal)
Teaching Professor (all ranks)/Asst Director, Writing Programs (Fiscal)
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Job Description
The Department of English atArizona State Universityinvites applications fora Teaching Professor (all ranks) position with a concurrent appointment as Assistant Director in Writing Programs. The anticipated start date is July is a full-time benefits-eligible non-tenure eligible appointment made on a fiscal year basis (July 1 June 30). Teaching Professors typically teach four classes per academic term. Because this position entails significant administrative/service the teaching expectation would be two to three classes per academic term.
Essential Functions of the job:
- Contribute to the leadership team of ASUs Writing Programs assuming duties assigned by the Director of Writing Programs
- Participate in relevant committee work associated with Writing Programs operations
- Oversee operations associated with Writing Programs event
- Manage operations associated with annual evaluations
- Provide mentorship and oversight to Faculty and Graduate Instructors in the Writing Programs
- Work with English ATF consortium to maintain appropriate transfer standards and protocol among Arizona public universities
About theDepartment of English
The Department of Englishs motto - Start here go anywhere - captures the unique value of our undergraduate and graduate English degrees ones that can serve students in any art form any discipline and any profession. In fact our degrees can take students anywhere they wish to travel. The Department of English faculty is internationally renowned for innovative research and teaching and explores the pan-world expression of the English language and its literature which span the global yet connect directly to the local. The skills of critical thinking reading comprehension and analytic expression cultivated in the degrees are transferable into any endeavor. In particular such skills provide the foundation for creative problem-solving and cultivate individual and collective expression. The department takes as its purview not just historical positioned work whether linguistic or textual but includes all forms of expression and all modes of new media whether analogical or digital. We emphasize writingacademic creative personal public and workplacethat explores difference reflectively and functionally. Our goal is to educate citizens who can think read write and act in robust and significant ways to meet new challenges. See for more information.
About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University committed to improving communities on a local national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College our faculty engage with a large curious student body guiding them as they grow into socially aware critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences please visit .
About Arizona State University
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in theASU Charter ASU is a comprehensive public research university measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
Required Qualifications
- PhD in English or Rhetoric and Composition or closely related fields in hand by the time of appointment
- Evidence of strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and at leastthree years of experience teaching at the college level
- Evidence of excellence in teaching courses in writing studies
- Evidence of excellence in teaching inonlineor hybrid formats
- Experience with Writing Programs Administration
Desired Qualifications:
- Active participation in Rhetoric and Composition conferences and/or professional development associated with writing studies
- Active research in writing programs and/or WPA
- Experience developing online classes/curriculum
- Evidence of excellence in teacher training and mentorship
- Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty staff students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
