Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Professional and Technical Writing

Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science

Classification: 9-month Instructional Faculty

Job Category: Instructional Faculty

Job Type: Full-Time

Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk)

Location: Fairfax, VA

Workplace Type: On Site Required

Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience

Criminal Background Check: Yes

The Department of English offers an undergraduate minor and concentration in Writing and Rhetoric, along with an M.A.concentration in Professional and Technical Writing, and a Ph.D.program in Writing and Rhetoric. For more information about the department, visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). ; for detailson programs in Writing and Rhetoric, see .

The Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Professional and Technical Writing will bolster the university's national profile in researcharound professional and technical writing, engaging key issues inthe field with a focus on critical AI literacies. The faculty member will design and teach courses at the undergraduate andgraduate levels, consult with the Department about effective and ethical engagement of AI, advise graduate and undergraduatestudents doing projects on AI from a humanistic perspective;

andbring a humanities centered perspective to collaborations acrossthe university on programming, coursework, and research in AI. This position would also allow for the development of AI-related policies, research, and curricular initiatives in CHSS and the university.

The 2:2 course load includes undergraduate teaching opportunities in upper-division technical writing and graduate courses inrhetoric and technical communication at both the MA and PhDlevels.

• Maintains an active research agenda and publication record at arate appropriate for eventual tenure and promotion at an R1university.

• Teaches courses in the English Department; mentors and supervises undergraduate and graduate student researchers.

• Provides service to the English department, college, and university by participation on faculty committees.

• Ph.D. in professional writing, rhetoric, technicalcommunication, or a related field; and
• Research and teaching focus on critical AI literacies and technical communication, workplace studies, and/or rhetoricaltheory.

• Teaching experience or coursework in: research methods,document design, technical communication, editing, visual rhetoric,or usability;
• Experience with a range of methods and methodologies in technical writing research, including qualitative, quantitative,and mixed methods;
• Experience advising at the undergraduate, MA, and/or PhDlevels;
• Prior workplace experience in professional and technical writing;
• Active research program in professional and technical writing,engaging key issues in the field with focus on critical AIliteracies; and
• Field- and industry-specific knowledge about how to make connections to and prepare students for careers in professional and technical writing.

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