Assistant Professor – Disability Rhetorics

Clemson University's English Department seeks an outstanding scholar and teacher at the assistant professor rank in Rhetoric/Composition with a specialization in Disability Rhetorics. Possible areas of emphasis: critical disability theory, queer and/or crip theory, rhetorics of disability justice, accessibility and universal design, poetics, new media, professional communication, technical communication. The successful candidate will collaborate with current faculty to enhance well-established curricular and institutional programs, including a robust English major at the BA level, MA programs in Writing, Rhetoric, and Media (MAWRM) and English (MAE), as well as an interdisciplinary PhD in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design (RCID).

Clemson is an R-I land grant institution located in upstate South Carolina—a global university with a mission to serve the diverse communities of our state. In 2016 Clemson inaugurated Clemson Forward, a strategic plan to strengthen its research profile, diversity, and workplace quality of life. The English Department has taken a leading role in pursuing these goals by confronting legacies of political violence and nurturing traditions of intellectual invention and survival on our campus. For this reason, the search committee is especially interested to hear from candidates who bring to their research and teaching the diverse perspectives that come from non-traditional educational backgrounds or an understanding of the experience of those under-represented in higher education.


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