Continuing Instructor or Assistant Professor

The Emory & Henry English Department is seeking a Continuing Instructor or Assistant Professor and Director of Writing Center/Writing Support Services (rank contingent on qualifications) to start in January 2025. Our ideal candidate will be a specialist in first-year writing instruction and will have experience with the administration of a Writing Center or Writing Support Services. Experience with online instruction would be beneficial.

The annual teaching load for this position is 18 credit hours a year, or a 3:3 course load. Candidates will also take on duties associated with being Director of Writing Center and Writing Support Services, which is equivalent to teaching a fourth class each semester.

Essential Duties:

• Teach three first-year writing courses per semester, split between ENGL 100 and ENGL 101
• Take an active role in the department’s operation, including advising students, attending on-campus recruitment events, etc.
• Contribute to the college’s strategic objectives and service needs in areas such as Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, and interdisciplinarity and retention.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree in English at time of employment (MA, MFA, or PhD), preferably with experience in composition/rhetoric 
• Experience teaching college composition courses
• Experience working in or directing a Writing Center

To apply, please submit/upload the following: 

• Letter of application
• Statement of Teaching Philosophy, to include a statement of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging 
• Curriculum Vitae
• Graduate transcripts (finalists will be required to submit official undergraduate and graduate transcripts)
• 3 recommendation letters, at least one of which focuses on teaching. Letters should be sent directly to jkrause@emoryhenry.edu.

Review of applications will start on November 11 and will continue until the position is filled.

Please contact Dr. Jennifer Krause, Chair of the English Department and Head of this Search Committee, with questions or for more information (jkrause@emoryhenry.edu). 

About us:

Located in the Highlands of Virginia, Emory & Henry College has devoted itself since 1836 to the belief that education can have a transformative effect on an individual, a place and ultimately the wider world.

Inspired by the motto “Increase in Excellence,” the first faculty challenged students to grow and develop intellectually, spiritually and physically.

Today, our mission continues to focus on students as they follow a path of intellectual and spiritual growth on their way to successful futures. That mission, in turn, is extended to others through a broad program of active engagement and community service.

You will discover that Emory & Henry is a place of promise made up of warm-hearted, caring people who care about your fulfillment. This is a community that embraces people from all walks of life as they work together to improve the individual and the world. We are people with a mission and a long history devoted to transforming lives and increasing excellence.

Emory & Henry views diversity, equity, and inclusion as foundational to our institution, and strives to continually “increase in excellence” in this endeavor. In doing so, we recognize the forced removal and stolen labor at the heart of the very founding (and naming) of our College. We also acknowledge the negative impact of power imbalances, discrimination, and exclusion on generations of marginalized groups dating back to the inception of Emory & Henry College. We also recognize that, while this statement is important, it is an insufficient approach to the liberation of impacted peoples.

It is the policy of Emory & Henry College to provide equal employment, educational and social opportunities for all persons, without regard to race (or traits historically associated with race including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender identity or expression, age, veteran status, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation or genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Minorities, women, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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