English Department Non-Tenure-Track Pool

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Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students, and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master’s‑granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western’s greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive.

In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, students, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the English Department support Western’s mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.

The English Department is currently teaching in‑person classes and would require applicants to be available to teach in person.

The English Department maintains a vacancy pool of qualified persons interested in non‑tenure‑track teaching positions. In anticipation of possible openings throughout the academic year and summer sessions, we accept applications continuously for temporary, full, and part‑time, non‑tenure‑track positions at the instructor level. Although most non‑tenure‑track faculty receive their course assignments for the upcoming academic year by mid‑July, positions may become available at any time and are filled on a quarterly basis.

We expect you to be an exemplary teacher; to be current in your discipline; to engage students actively in their own learning, including discussion, writing, and analysis; and to maintain high standards regarding course content. You will be expected to provide students with feedback on their coursework and examinations, be available to students through regularly scheduled office hours, have your students evaluate your courses using the standard University evaluation forms, and make those evaluations available to the department chair and faculty for annual review.

• MA/MFA or above in English, Linguistics, Rhetoric and Composition, Film Studies, Technical Writing, or Creative Writing
• Demonstrated successful experience teaching at the college or university level
• Demonstrated commitment to cultivating learning environments that are equitable and inclusive of students with diverse social identities and backgrounds

• PhD in English,…