[Air-L] Job Call - Department Chair - Humanities - Michigan Technological University

[Jason Archer]

The Department of Humanities <https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/> at Michigan
Technological University
<https://www.employment.mtu.edu/en-us/job/494059/mtu.edu> seeks an
experienced scholar and leader with a commitment to interdisciplinarity to
serve as department chair at the rank of full professor or associate
professor nearing promotion to full in line with Michigan Tech. The Chair
will lead our collaborative, multidisciplinary department in implementing a
shared vision for excellence in scholarship, creative work, and teaching.
The Chair will be responsible for developing and supporting new
departmental initiatives as well as ongoing efforts to foster innovative
interdisciplinary research and advance graduate and undergraduate program
success. The Chair will also facilitate the involvement of Humanities in
the new Michigan Tech Forward 2.0 and 100 PhD’s initiatives currently
underway.

Our department offers undergraduate degrees in Communication, Culture and
Media; English; and Scientific and Technical Communication, as well as
graduate degrees in Rhetoric, Theory, and Culture. (For a complete list of
our major and minor degree programs, please go to:
https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/.) Our faculty specialize in communication,
composition, creative writing, gender studies, literature, media studies,
modern languages, philosophy, rhetoric, visual studies, technical
communication, technology studies, and user experience, which are all
integral to our university and broader community. The department houses the
MTU First Year Writing Program, which prepares students for reading,
writing, and information literacy at the university level and beyond. The
department also stewards the Walker Labs for Arts & Humanities, WLAH, a
unique media-production, computing, game studies, and language-resource
center, a vital resource for students across campus. The Chair is supported
by an Associate Chair, two administrative staff, a Director of Graduate
Studies, Director of Composition, and Directors of the Undergraduate Degree
Programs.

The position will remain open until filled; review of applications will
begin December 1, 2025. Please submit application materials to:
http://www.employment.mtu.edu/cw/en-us/job/494059.


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Jason E. Archer
Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Technologies
Department of Humanities <https://www.mtu.edu/humanities/>
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Culture and Technology
<https://www.mtu.edu/circt/>
<https://www.mtu.edu/circt/>
Michigan Technological University
Website: jasonearcher.com