Assistant Teaching Professor

Job Summary

The Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and the College of Arts & Sciences Residential Academic Program (A&S RAP) at the University of Colorado Boulder invite applications for a joint Assistant Teaching Professor position. The successful candidate will teach lower and upper-division undergraduate courses for PWR with opportunities to contribute toan Interdisciplinary Writing Certificate , a minor in Writing and Public Engagement , and PWR’s ten areas of academic expertise .

The candidate will also teach lower-division undergraduate courses for the A&S RAP. We seek a colleague committed to first-year composition as well as to sustainability with experience developing inclusive writing pedagogies focused on environmental writing, environmental rhetorics and justice, andrhetorics of science. We especially seek candidates whose teaching attends to the intersections of environmental and social justice,pointing to the ways in which climate, policies, and discourses impact vulnerable communities and the planet.

An anticipated startdate for this position is fall 2026.

To support this joint appointment, we especially seek a candidate who is committed to lower-division writing education and to creating a dynamic, collaborative learning environment for CUBoulder’s incoming class of students. We strongly desire candidates who engage in innovative digital pedagogy and strive to enhance students’ digital, information, and AI literacy. A strong interest in working with first-year and transfer students is also highly valued.

CU is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We are committed to creating a workplace where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity, and we encourage individuals from all backgrounds toapply, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

This Assistant Teaching Professor role is designed as a dual position, with the successful candidate teaching for both the Program for Writing & Rhetoric (PWR) and for the A&S Residential Academic Program (RAP).

PWR is an active community of teachers, scholars, and writers committed to making writing central to undergraduate education.

Many teaching professors are active writers, publishing op-eds in local newspapers; poems , fiction , and creative non-fiction for literary journals; and scholarly worksfor composition studies and beyond. Through small class sizes and intensive workshops, we trainstudents to think critically and write persuasively in diverse genres, modes, and media and contexts—academic, civic,professional, and personal.

PWR’saward-winning program has been made possible by a long tradition of highly valuedand long-serving teaching professors working alongside a small group of tenure-track faculty. Together, PWR faculty strive toexpand students’ critical literacy practices and open up opportunities for students to present their work publicly , engage withcommunityorganizations , and produce journals of undergraduate writing such as Hindsight. PWR is also committed to expanding applied writing curricula atCU Boulder by working on writing across the curriculum and writingin the disciplines initiatives.

Like CU Boulder on the whole, PWR is committed to generating acommunity and a curriculum whose excellence is premised on diversity, equity and inclusion. PWR seeks candidates who sharethis commitment and demonstrate understanding of the experiences ofthose historically underrepresented in higher education. PWRwelcomes applications from minoritized racial and ethnic identities, ciswomen, non-normative genders and sexualities,persons with disabilities, and others who have encountered legacies of marginalization.

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