Department of Rhetoric & Writing Seeks Assistant Professor

The Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) at The University of Texas at Austin seeks to hire an entry-level assistant professor in one of the following areas:

Cultural Rhetorical Studies

We seek candidates who have demonstrated strong scholarly promise at the intersections of rhetoric, ethnicity, identity, culture, and the public sphere.

Emerging Communication Technologies and Digital Media

We seek candidates who have demonstrated scholarly promise in the area of rhetoric and technology studies.

As a member of the DRW, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to design and teach a wide variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels all with the support of our nationally renowned Computer Writing and Research Lab (CWRL), which includes state-of-the-art computer classrooms, multimedia labs, independent servers, and instructor prep labs.

The successful candidate also will demonstrate a commitment to excellent teaching and undergraduate writing instruction, as well as an ability to contribute to the undergraduate major in Rhetoric & Writing and to the doctoral programs in Rhetoric and/or in Computers and English Studies.

The DRW boasts a dynamic, collegial, nationally and internationally recognized faculty with interests in the history, theory, and criticism of rhetoric; composition theory and pedagogy; technologies of writing; visual rhetoric; empirical research; writing in the disciplines and professions; rhetoric and poetics; and language and literacy studies. Sub-units of the DRW include the Undergraduate Writing Center; the Computer Writing and Research Lab; and the College of Liberal Arts Writing Across the Curriculum Initiative. Teaching load is 2/2; salary is competitive.

Application Deadline is November 1, 2007. Submit a letter of application, a curriculum vita, three letters of recommendation, a dissertation abstract, and a statement of teaching philosophy (no longer than one page) to...

Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Chair
Department of Rhetoric & Writing
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B5500
Austin TX 78712-0200

The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.