Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Studies

Location: El Paso, TX Category: Liberal Arts Job Type: Full-time Posted On: Wed Oct 7 2026

Our department is one of the most productive at UTEP in terms of research, and our faculty have won many of the most prestigious awards in their fields, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, and many others. Faculty members have secured NEH funding to support professional development initiatives with K-12 teachers, lead community-engaged projects in partnership with businesses, cultural institutions and nonprofit organizations, and conduct scholarship that addresses local, international, national, and global concerns.

Faculty in the department have served in leadership roles and on governing bodies of major scholarly and professional organizations, including the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the American Studies Association (ASA).

We are committed to achieving the highest quality of scholarship and teaching, and we pride ourselves on welcoming and supporting our students at all levels, from their first semester in the university to the completion of their highest degree.

The Department of English at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Writing Studies position beginning Fall 2027.

We seek a scholar whose research and teaching examine the intersections of rhetoric, writing, literacy, artificial intelligence (AI), and emerging technologies. Applicants may hold a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Studies, English Education, Literacy Studies, Technical and Professional Communication, or a closely related field. We are interested in candidates whose work explores the relationships between AI and emerging technologies with humanistic approaches to writing processes, composing practices, teaching of writing, writing assessment, professional communication, and public discourse.

The successful candidate will join the Department of English and may contribute across multiple programs and areas within the department, including English Education, First-Year Composition, Literature, and Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

As part of this role, the candidate is expected to participate in the leadership of UTEP's nationally recognized First-Year Composition (FYC) program, including service as Director of FYC on a rotating basis.

This position is grounded in UTEP's commitment to multilingual writers, particularly native speakers of Spanish, access-oriented education, and innovative writing instruction. Because FYC serves thousands of students annually and constitutes the University's primary writing curriculum, the successful candidate will contribute leadership in developing ethical, accessible, and scalable approaches to AI and writing instruction. The position includes responsibilities related to writing program administration, curriculum development, graduate instructor education, assessment, professional development, and institutional conversations concerning AI, emerging technologies, literacy, and writing.

• Writing processes, including pedagogy and assessment
• Writing program administration
• Multilingual Writing
• Digital rhetoric and emerging technologies
• Cultural Studies
• Its influence on the humanities, including literary studies
• Ethics, policy, and governance related to AI
• Human collaboration in writing and composing
• Its use in academic and/or public composing, writing and literacy practices

• PhD in Rhetoric and Composition, Writing Studies, English Education, Literacy Studies, Technical and Professional Communication, or a closely related field by the date of appointment.
• Evidence of an established or emerging research agenda in Artificial Intelligence in Writing Studies.
• Evidence of successful teaching or strong potential for excellence in teaching.

Preference will be given to candidates who can demonstrate experience designing, studying, or teaching AI-informed approaches to writing and who can translate that scholarship into graduate instructor education, writing program leadership, and First-Year Composition instruction.

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