Posting Title - Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor, Teaching Track

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

The Writing Program in the Emory College of Arts & Sciences (Atlanta, GA) is accepting applications for an at the rank of Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor in the Emory Writing Program starting in Fall 2027; anticipated start date for this position is August 01, 2027. We seek colleagues with preferred specialization in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing to join our Writing Program’s interdisciplinary team of teaching-track faculty.

We welcome collaborative, innovative administrators and instructors who will complement our strengths in inclusive pedagogy, cultural rhetorics, community-based writing, digital humanities, and writing with quantitative data.

The successful candidate will be prepared immediately to serve as the Director of First-Year Writing (FYW). As such, we seek candidates with expertise in first-year composition pedagogy and related research and assessment experience. First-year writing serves about half of the Emory undergraduate student body (~800 students/year) and the director’s responsibilities include training and mentoring instructors at all levels, supporting prospective and enrolled students, developing and assessing curriculum, and running continuing education for writing instructors.

While serving as Director of First-Year Writing, they will also collaborate with faculty in the Writing Program to develop and teach a writing pedagogy practicum for graduate student instructors.

The Emory Writing Program, housed in the Department of English, offers a minor in Rhetoric, Writing, and Information Design (RWID) and has an integrated English Language Learners (ELL) program. We support students in the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond in our long-standing Writing Center. We provide training and support to faculty through WAC/WID initiatives. Our Technical Writing Program reaches students across eighteen departments in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Our new faculty member will teach courses like First-Year Writing, Technical Communication, existing courses in the RWID minor, and those developed from their own expertise.

Successful applicants will join a highly collaborative team of approximately twenty teaching-track faculty, administrative staff members, and postdoctoral fellows. Members of our program are researchers, writers, and educators who contribute to multidisciplinary and multicultural communities across campus and beyond.

Emory’s Atlanta campus is located on the ancestral homeland of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. In recognition of responsibility to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, as well as of the historical relationship of the Cherokee Nation to the US Southeast, Emory’s Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative seeks to make Indigeneity part of the way Emory does things, in every respect. The successful candidate for this position will have the chance to join Emory’s robust interdisciplinary communities across campus, including the Departments of African American Studies and the Institute of African Studies, Department of data and Decision Sciences, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, the Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Initiative, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies Program, the Linguistics Program, and the Institute for the Liberal Arts.

Teaching-track appointments at Emory are career…