[Air-L] Texas Tech Open Rank Professor in Composition/Writing Studies

[Michael Faris]

Texas Tech’s Technical Communication & Rhetoric program is pleased to announce the following job opening:

Open Rank Professor of Technical Communication & Rhetoric in Composition/Writing Studies

Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication & Rhetoric program in the Department of English invites applications for an open-rank position in composition/writing studies to begin August 2022. This is a 9-month appointment. We are especially interested in applicants who specialize in composition/writing studies with research and teaching focuses in Latinx studies, cultural rhetorics, writing in the disciplines, multilingualism, and/or antiracist pedagogies/assessment. Preference will be given to applicants with a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition.

Applicants with administrative experience, online teaching experience, and a record of scholarship supported by funding are strongly encouraged to apply. Service to the department, college, and university is expected, including program-building as well as graduate teaching. The teaching load is 2-2, with further teaching reductions possible for administrative or national service. With around 120 students in our robust graduate program, our fifteen faculty have opportunities to teach graduate courses in our areas of interest, and we all serve on dissertation committees.

We offer the BA in Technical Communication, the MA in Technical Communication, and the PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric in onsite, hybrid, and online delivery modalities. We also offer graduate certificates in Grants & Proposals and in Teaching Technical Communication. Our program affords excellent facilities, including communication-rich computer classrooms, and opportunities to conduct research through the Usability Research Lab, the Media Lab, and the Letterpress Studio. The English department also houses the university’s recently revitalized First-Year Writing Program, which serves roughly 3,500-4,000 students a semester. Our university’s strategic plan emphasizes educating and empowering a diverse student body, enabling innovative research and creative activities, and transforming lives and communities through outreach and engaged scholarship. Experience working with diverse student populations and first-generation students is highly desirable.

Texas Tech University is designated a Carnegie Tier One (Highest Research Activity) institution and a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI). It has a law school, a medical school, and colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, Architecture, Business Administration, Engineering, Human Sciences, Media and Communication, and Visual and Performing Arts. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest of these, representing approximately 29% of the total enrollment of 40,000. The university is located in Lubbock, a rapidly growing city of more than 300,000 on the high plains. Lubbock enjoys 260 days of sunshine every year, little traffic, and a relatively low cost of living.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. The university welcomes applications from minoritized candidates, women, protected veterans, persons with disabilities, and dual-career couples.

See https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/programs/tcr <https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/programs/tcr/index.php> for more information. If you are interested in working with passionate, productive colleagues and motivated, talented students, please apply for one of these positions through https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hr/workattexastech <https://www.depts.ttu.edu/hr/workattexastech/> (25650BR) with a letter of application and vita. Dossiers solicited later from exceptionally qualified candidates. Candidates must apply by October 22, 2021. Direct inquiries to the search committee chair, Dr. Michael J. Faris (michael.faris at ttu.edu <mailto:michael.faris at ttu.edu>).

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Dr. Michael J. Faris
Associate Professor, Technical Communication and Rhetoric
Acting Associate Chair, Department of English
Texas Tech University
Co-editor, Kairos, http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/