First Year Composition Instructor (Multiple positions available)

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The English Department engages students in reflective reading creative inquiry critical analysis and effective expression. The study of literature writing film and visual media prepares graduates to pursue a variety of careers including law business government professional writing publishing and education. These students also prepare students for graduate programs.

The Department of English offers four major emphases: literature literature with a teaching endorsement creative writing and creative writing with a teaching endorsement. All four programs lead to the Bachelor of Arts in English. English: Literature Emphasis focuses on the study of literature in historical and cultural contexts and includes course work in English language and literature literary and rhetorical theory creative writing and composition technical writing film and visual medial. English: Creative Writing Emphasis focuses on writing in fiction drama poetry and in nonfiction prose and it is complemented by courses in language and literature. We also offer two parallel degrees that include a teaching endorsement for those who wish to pursue teaching at the secondary level.

The Department of English provides a dynamic intellectual environment and learning community. Faculty members introduce new genres fields and methods of critical inquiry and technologies to provide our students with the best possible education. The department offers small student-centered classes innovative pedagogy and close faculty-student interaction. English faculty members have earned numerous awards for excellence in teaching research and writing they are nationally and internationally recognized in creative and critical fields. Our students have amassed an impressive record of placement in graduate programs and professional positions.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the English Department support Westerns mission which states that together with our students staff and faculty we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women people of color people with disabilities veterans and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The English Department is currently teaching in-person classes and would require applicants to be available to teach in person.

The English Department is hiring instructors to teach in our First Year Writing program (ENG 101). Instructors will teach 2-3 sections of ENG 101 during our fall quarter. These Instructors will be responsible for designing and teaching classes grounded in our First Year Writing standard curriculum responding to and evaluating student work holding weekly office hours and maintaining student records and grades.

The Department the College and the University value teaching and we expect you to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning including discussion writing and analysis; and to maintain high standards regarding course content. We expect you to provide students with feedback on their course work and examinations and to be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours. You will be expected to have your students evaluate your courses using the standard University evaluation forms and to make those evaluations available to the department chair and faculty for annual review.

• Graduate of WWUs MA/MFA program or similar Masters program with experience teaching at least 3 sections of ENG 101 (or equivalent instructional experience).
• Commitment to teaching the 1st Year Writing Programs standard curriculum ( of a commitment to teaching excellence which can be demonstrated by original/revised assignments articulation of teaching practices and/or student evaluations and subsequent pedagogical responses
• Demonstrated commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

• Familiaritywith WWUs First Year Writing program (ENG 101)

Salary

$1028 - $1324 per Credit commensurate with experience and qualifications (MA at the lower end of the range and MFA and PhD at the upper end of the range)

Bargaining Unit

United Faculty of Western Washington

Application Instructions

Applications close on May 11 2026.

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