Assistant Professor - School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication

Assistant Professor - School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication

The School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication is a vibrant, independent writing program with over thirty faculty representing a wide variety of research and teaching interests. We welcome a colleague who shares our program’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and to building an equitable, linguistically diverse, and creative environment for teaching and scholarship. The position comes with a 3/3 teaching load, and there will be opportunities for the successful candidate to teach across all levels of our graduate, undergraduate, and General Education offerings.

The College of Arts and Letters, in which WRTC is located, enrolls over 3,400 undergraduate majors and about 150 graduate students across ten academic units in the humanities, social sciences, and communication studies. Home to several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the College employs 270 full-time faculty. It is a university leader in student and faculty diversity and belonging and has made significant faculty investments in racial and social justice, Latinx studies, and African-American studies. It embraces the teacher-scholar model, supporting excellent teaching, innovative service, and strong programs of research and creative inquiry across the disciplines. The College provides rich opportunities for faculty to collaborate across the College and the entire university.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The School of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication (www.jmu.edu/wrtc) at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track position in technical communication at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2023. We look forward to welcoming a colleague whose research and teaching advances diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field, and who is excited to contribute to DEI initiatives/efforts across our campus and in professional and community contexts. We are particularly interested in working with a colleague who brings innovative, social justice-oriented approaches to areas such as user experience, content strategy, grant writing, and writing for government and industry. The hiring for this position aligns with JMU’s commitment to faculty diversity and advances its commitment to an anti-racist agenda throughout Academic Affairs. We particularly encourage applications from candidates whose teaching and research intersect with the College of Arts and Letters programs in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD), Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies (LAXC), and Women’s , Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS).

Qualifications:

A Ph.D. in technical communication or a closely related field is required by time of appointment; applications from early-career assistant professors are also welcome.

To learn more and to apply, go to joblink.jmu.edu and reference posting F1962 or go to https://joblink.jmu.edu/postings/12677. Review of applications begins 10/06/2022. Salary will be commensurate with experience. For more information regarding the position, contact the search chair Dr. Seán McCarthy at mccartsr@jmu.edu. 

James Madison University is committed to creating and supporting a diverse and inclusive work and educational community that is free of all forms of discrimination. This institution does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, genetic information, national origin, parental status, political affiliation, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation or veteran status We promote access, inclusion and diversity for all students, faculty, staff, constituents and programs, believing that these qualities are foundational components of an outstanding education in keeping with our mission. The university is interested in candidates whose experience and qualifications support an ongoing commitment to this core quality Anyone having questions concerning discrimination should contact the Office for Equal Opportunity: (540) 568-6991.