Job ID:
228692
Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Director of WAC/WID & STEM Initiatives for the Writing Center (Tenure Track)
Old Dominion University
Job Title
Assistant Professor of Writing Studies and Director of WAC/WID & STEM Initiatives for the Writing Center (Tenure Track)
Department
ENGLISH
Position Number
F0145A
Job Description
The Department of English at Old Dominion University invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor of Writing Studies to teach courses and serve as the Director of WAC/WID & STEM Initiatives for the Writing Center and General Education Program. This 10-month appointment begins July 25, 2024, and includes it opportunities for summer teaching and/or administrative work.
This position will expand ongoing WAC/WID efforts of the Writing Center and support the English General Education Program’s efforts to foster dynamic transfer from 200-level research-based general education composition courses into the major-level writing intensive courses. The successful candidate will have opportunities to teach courses in Composition and Writing Studies for the general education program, the English major, and the graduate programs. The position will yield exciting possibilities for collaborative research.
Though we are excited to learn about each candidate’s vision for the position, we foresee the successful candidate’s role will include the following:
- collaborating with the Director of the Writing Center to provide programming and resources for faculty across campus, particularly STEM faculty, train tutors to respond more effectively to STEM genres, and help recruit and train writers from across the disciplines to work in the writing center;
- contributing to our program and department’s our ongoing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts through providing leadership and creating professional development opportunities that support the newly revised 200-level research-based general education composition courses;
- facilitating communication among teachers of the 200-level composition courses and the major-level writing intensive courses across campus to encourage vertical and dynamic transfer; and
- working with the Associate Chair of Writing Studies and the Directors of the Writing Center, Writing Placement & Support, and General Education Composition and Literature, to continue to respond to student and faculty needs and improve our programs.
We seek a colleague with:
- Experience in college-level tutoring and teaching first-year writing or composition, using teaching practices informed by current writing studies pedagogy and scholarship;
- Leadership experience related to Writing Centers, writing programs, and/or WAC/WID initiatives (this includes Graduate Assistant WPA roles);
- A research agenda related to Writing Centers, writing programs, WAC/WID initiatives, and STEM writing (this includes published scholarship, grants, dissertations, and conference presentations); and
- Evidence of commitment to collaboration, teamwork, and team-building (this includes participation in campus initiatives, professional organizations, committees, scholarship, and problem-solving with colleagues).
Minimum Qualifications - Education or training
Candidates must have completed all requirements for a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, Writing Studies, or a related field by July 24, 2024.
Minimum Qualifications - Special licenses, registration or certification
Preferred Qualifications
Preference will be given to candidates with:
- Experience as a director, co-director, assistant director, or graduate assistant director of writing center, writing program, WAC/WID program, or related program;
- A record of scholarship and/or administrative decision-making intended to support and foster diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility; and/or
- Experience tutoring or mentoring graduate students working on thesis and dissertation projects.
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