Graduate Instructor​/Adjunct Faculty

Graduate Instructor / Adjunct Faculty

Number of openings: 4

Department/Program:
Writing Center 45000

Work Location:

Arapahoe Campus (Hybrid).

Reports to:

NWC director. FLSA Classification:
Exempt/Salaried. FTE: 15% (6 hrs/week). Compensation: $1,300 Undergrad.

Final date to receive applications: 7/1 or until filled.

The Naropa Writing Center (NWC) & Jack Kerouac School (JKS) seek to hire Naropa JKS MFA graduate instructors or recent Naropa JKS MFA graduates as adjunct faculty to teach in first‑year writing and the JKS gateway course.

• COR
  110, COR
  110e & COR
  210E "Writing Thinking & Being":
  This first‑year writing seminar is designed to meet students where they are and stretch their writing and thinking using mindful, present‑moment practices, blending creative and critical work, embodied and academic learning, and generative writing experiments to develop ideas while examining how social locations intersect dialogic arguments and discourse communities. The workshop also cultivates research writing through first‑person inquiry and explores radical revision as students become active readers and collaborators.
• WRI
  210 "Experimental and Activist Literatures":
  This course introduces Black Mountain Poets, the Beats, New York School, Black Arts Movement, Language Poets, New Narrative, and Jack Kerouac School faculty work‑poetic movements and writers that continue to influence Naropa's writing landscape, innovations, aesthetics, and activism. Students explore experimental lineages, archives, and contemporary trends, engaging as readers, writers, and activists to inform the writing process and culminate in a creative portfolio.

• Teach a 3‑credit writing course (descriptions above).
• Develop and teach lessons with a professional level of preparedness for 3 hours per week for the duration of the 15‑week semester, including experiential, collaborative, and contemplative activities.
• Facilitate the workshopping of writing assignments with the whole class and with small groups.
• Prepare a course syllabus according to Academic Affairs syllabi instructions and submit it by the established deadline.
• Grade all assignments and provide timely feedback; submit final grades by Registrar deadline.
• Attend all instructor meetings.
• Provide one hour of office hours each week and be available to students by appointment through meetings, phone, e‑mail, Zoom, as needed.
• Meet with students for mid‑semester check‑ins.
• Obtain permission from the copyright owner for any copyrighted material used in sourcebooks.
• Complete all faculty and staff trainings as required by Human Resources or Academic Affairs within the designated period.
• Position may include increased teaching credit hours to work as a professional consultant in the Naropa Writing Center. Duties include (but are not limited to):
  • 2 hours per week per additional credit hour consulting in the NWC.
  • Remote and residential consulting on a set schedule.
  • Attend staff meetings and professional development opportunities.
  • Answer emails and perform admin tasks as assigned.
  • Support the NWC with classroom visits to UG and graduate courses as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Naropa Master's degree candidate with a minimum of 9 credits of graduate work; or Naropa University Master's degree in Creative Writing, English Literature, or a related field.
• Successfully passed WRI
  700:
  Writing Pedagogy Seminar with a grade of A‑ or better.
• Advanced writing abilities.
• Potential for or compatibility with constructivist, contemplative, experiential, and process‑based pedagogies.
• Advanced teaching and lesson‑planning abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative work skills, attention to detail, and initiative to teach a college‑level writing course.
• Understanding of the dynamics of privilege and oppression and their impact on equity, access, and opportunity in higher education or workplace.
• Commitment to co‑create an inclusive community and actively participate in related professional development, openness to feedback, and ongoing self‑examination.

• Previous teaching experience.
• Previous training in learning disabilities, multilingual…