Teaching Assistant or Associate Professor_ Composition and Disability Studies

The Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor specializing in Composition and Disability Studies to join its active and innovative Composition program beginning Fall 2025, pending budgetary approval. The successful candidate will contribute to longstanding and sustained work related to Disability among Composition faculty and will also contribute to the growing interdisciplinary Disability Studies certificate. This position carries a 2/2 teaching load and will also include work with the Writing Institute, which houses the university’s Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines initiatives. This work will include curricular development, outreach, and programming for writers with disabilities (undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff) and for teachers of writers with disabilities. The position includes departmental service such as administrative or committee work and guiding undergraduate research. This undergraduate-focused, full-time, renewable non-tenure track position also has paths to administrative positions.

Applications must include the following, submitted through the University's Talent Center portal, by December 1, 2024:


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