Colorado State University is hiring: Assistant Professor in Professional Writing

Posting Detail Information

Working TitleAssistant Professor in Professional Writing and Cultural Rhetorics

Position LocationFort Collins, CO

Work LocationPosition is fully in-office/in-person

Posting Number202400257F

Proposed Annual Salary RangeThe salary range for this position is $72,000-76,000. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Employee Benefits

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Position TypeFaculty

Work Hours/Week40

Description of Work Unit

Founded in 1870, Colorado State University is among the nations leading research universities and enrolls approximately 32,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Located an hour north of the Denver metro area, Fort Collins is situated on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains with views of 14,000-foot peaks. Fort Collins is a vibrant community of approximately 170,000 residents that offers the convenience of a small town with the amenities of a large city (e.g., access to numerous cultural, recreational, and outdoor opportunities).

The English department at CSU is an energetic and diverse community of poets and linguists, literacy researchers and teacher educators, novelists and literary scholars, and rhetoricians and composition specialists. This department is home to 35 tenure stream faculty, 48 contract, continuing, or adjunct faculty, 6 administrative personnel, and approximately 325 undergraduate majors and 75 graduate students.

We share a passion for exploring the multiple and dynamic ways that the English language is used to meet the demands of life in the twenty-first century. Students, staff, and faculty are committed to inclusive excellence, intellectual growth, and the creation of a more just and sustainable world. Moreover, the department houses the University Composition program that serves over 6,000 students across lower- and upper-division writing and rhetoric courses focused on preparing students to succeed in university and professional writing contexts. We offer ten lower-division and upper-division courses in writing and rhetoric, including College Composition (CO150), Writing in the Disciplines: Sciences (CO301B), Writing in Digital Environments (CO302), Writing and Style (CO401), and Principles of Digital Rhetoric and Design (CO402).

To learn more about the Department, visit our website at: https://english.colostate.edu/

Tenure/Tenure Track?Yes

% Research35%

% Teaching50%

% Service15%

% Administration0

To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (MT) on10/18/2024

Number of Vacancies

Desired Start Date08/16/2025

Position End Date

Position Summary

Assistant Professor in Professional Writing and Cultural Rhetorics

The Department of English at Colorado State University seeks applicants for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Cultural Rhetorics. We especially encourage candidates who have cultivated an active commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, social and environmental justice, anti-racism, culturally sustaining practice, and/or access/ibility within their research, teaching, and service programs. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate an active research and teaching program at the nexus of professional writing and cultural rhetorics.

This is a tenure-track, 9-month appointment beginning August 16, 2025. The successful candidate will teach two courses per semester. Post-tenure there is an expectation that the successful candidate will serve a term/s as a program director within the department.

Responsibilities

+ Maintain an equity-driven research program in Writing Studies.

+ Teach four courses per year in the University Composition Program ( UCP ), Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy ( WRL ) English B.A. concentration, or Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Change ( WRSC ) Graduate M.A. program, and/or English Department until tenure.

+ Contribute to developing and teaching courses and certificates in culturally-informed professional writing, including participating in professional development curriculum for department instructors and graduate teaching assistants.

+ Mentor and advise undergraduate and graduate students.

+ Collaborate with faculty, students, university stakeholders, and community partners on strategic initiatives associated with professional writing and cultural rhetorics at CSU .

+ Provide service to the department, college, university, and community.

+ Serve a term(s) post tenure in a programmatic leadership role within the WRL / WRSC / UCP programs (e.g., Director of Writing Center; Director of WRSC MA Program; Director of WRL BA Program; Director of University Composition Program; Director of gtPathways).

General Information

Students, staff, and faculty of the English Department at Colorado State University are committed to inclusive excellence, intellectual growth, and the creation of a more just and sustainable world.

Conditions of EmploymentPre-employment Criminal Background Check (required for new hires)

Required Job Qualifications

+ Ph.D/Ed.D. in English, Rhetoric and Composition, Technical and Professional Communication, or a closely related field at time of appointment.

+ A promising record of scholarship and teaching excellence in writing studies.

+ Educational background, pedagogical experience, and/or a record of scholarship that directly addresses the relationship between professional writing theory/practice and cultural rhetorics, (dis)ability, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and/or socioeconomic status within writing studies.

+ A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively.

Preferred Job Qualifications

+ A promising record of scholarship and teaching excellence across the nexus of professional writing and cultural rhetorics.

+ Prior pedagogical experience teaching and/or developing curriculum in culturally-informed professional writing, user experience design, content strategy, project management, grant writing, science communication, and/or editing.

+ Expertise in multimodal literacies, multimodal composing, and digital cultural rhetorics.

+ One or more years of work experience within industry, government, and/or non-government organizations performing user experience design, content strategy, grant writing, project management, science communication, and/or editing.

+ Desire to develop inclusive and interdisciplinary partnerships and courses with units outside of English.

Special Instructions to Applicants

CSU is committed to full inclusion of qualified individuals. If you are needing assistance or accommodations with the search process, please reach out to the listed search contact.

Please note, applicants may redact information from their application materials that identifies their age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.

Please submit a letter of interest that speaks directly to the position qualifications, a curriculum vitae, a scholarly writing sample, a teaching philosophy, and two letters of recommendation (please note: references will be invited via email to upload a letter of recommendation immediately after the application is submitted).

Applicants are specifically invited to use the application materials to articulate purposeful linkages between cultural rhetorics and professional writing in their research, teaching, and service programs, detailing how cultural rhetorics inform their approach to professional writing. Applicants are also encouraged to use the application materials to demonstrate an active commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, social and environmental justice, anti-racism, culturally sustaining practice, and/or access/ibility.

Those advancing to the finalist stage will be asked to prepare and submit a brief portfolio of practice that includes evidence of prior experience in professional writing (e.g., grant writing; user experience research reports; content strategy; editing), and teaching and pedagogical effectiveness prior to a campus visit in late November or early December.

Hard copy applications cannot be accepted. Application materials of semifinalist candidates will be made available for review by the entire faculty of the Department of English.

Questions can be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. Timothy Amidon, at tim.amidon@colostate.edu.

To ensure full consideration, application must be received by 11:59pm (MT) on October 18, 2024.

Background Check Policy Statement

Colorado State University strives to provide a safe study, work, and living environment for its faculty, staff, volunteers and students. To support this environment and comply with applicable laws and regulations, CSU conducts background checks for the finalist before a final offer. The type of background check conducted varies by position and can include, but is not limited to, criminal history, sex offender registry, motor vehicle history, financial history, and/or education verification. Background checks will also be conducted when required by law or contract and when, in the discretion of the University, it is reasonable and prudent to do so.

EEO Statement

Colorado State University is committed to providing an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based on race, age, creed, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, or pregnancy in its employment, programs, services and activities, and admissions, and, in certain circumstances, marriage to a co-worker. The University will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Colorado State University is an equal opportunity and equal access institution and affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce and complies with all Federal and Colorado State laws, regulations, and executive orders regarding non-discrimination and affirmative action. TheOffice of Equal Opportunity (https://oeo.colostate.edu/) is located in 101 Student Services.

The Title IX Coordinator is the Director of the Office of Title IX Programs and Gender Equity, 123 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-0160, (970) 491-1715,titleix@colostate.edu.

The Section 504 and ADA Coordinator is the Director of the Office of Equal Opportunity, 101 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, CO 80523-0160, (970) 491-5836,oeo@colostate.edu.

The Coordinator for any other forms of misconduct prohibited by the Universitys Policy on Discrimination and Harassment is the Vice President for Equity, Equal Opportunity and Title IX, 101 Student Services Building, Fort Collins, Co. 80523-0160, (970) 491-5836,oeo@colostate.edu.

Any person may report sex discrimination under Title IX to theOffice of Civil Rights, Department of Education (https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/howto.html) .

Diversity Statement

Personal and professional commitment to diversity and inclusion as demonstrated by involvement in teaching, research, creative activity, service to the profession and/or diversity/inclusion activities.

Search ContactTim Amidon - Tim.Amidon@colostate.edu

Essential Duties

Job Duty CategoryInstruction, Advising, Mentoring

Duty/Responsibility

Instruction, Advising, Mentoring

Percentage Of Time50%

Job Duty CategoryResearch, Scholarship, Creative

Duty/Responsibility

Research, Scholarship, Creative

Percentage Of Time35%

Job Duty CategoryUniversity/Professional/Public Service and Outreach

Duty/Responsibility

University/Professional/Public Service and Outreach

Percentage Of Time15%

References Requested

References Requested

Minimum Requested2

Maximum Requested2

Supplemental Questions

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Applicant Documents

Required Documents

+ Curriculum Vitae

+ Cover Letter

+ Statement of Teaching Philosophy

+ Writing Samples

Optional Documents