LINGUIST List 33.3707
Sat Dec 03 2022
Jobs: Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature: Assistant Professor of Writing, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Date: 03-Dec-2022
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Subject: Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature: Assistant Professor of Writing, University of Alaska Anchorage, AK, USA
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Department: Department of Writing
Job Location: Alaska, USA
Job Title: Assistant Professor of Writing
Job Rank: Assistant Professor
Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Ling & Literature
Description:
The Department of Writing, within the Community and Technical College at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor to teach writing courses in a vibrant interdisciplinary academic community that serves students from a wide array of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We respond to the lifelong learning needs of students by providing writing instruction for dual enrollment, military personnel, immigrants, and returning students, with special attention to non-traditional, at-risk, and English language learners. Our writing courses serve the general education mission of our campus by developing critical capacities like reading, writing, and critical thinking, while maintaining a commitment to social and linguistic justice. Writing courses offered range from developmental to discipline-specific, including sections designated for academic Honors.
Duties:
Teaching: This tenure-track position carries a full-time instructional workload within a vibrant interdisciplinary academic community that serves a racially and ethnically diverse student body, including Alaska Native/Indigenous students. The successful candidate will teach four undergraduate writing courses each semester, with course release opportunities available for research or community engagement projects. Courses may include, but are not limited to, developmental reading and writing, introductory general education writing, writing courses within a vertical curriculum that branches into disciplines (humanities, sciences, professions), and topic courses that contribute to an occupational certificate in professional writing.
Service: Faculty are expected to engage in meaningful service at the department, college, and/or university level, depending on their interests and career goals (e.g. assessment, curriculum development and review, student success initiatives, shared governance, community-engaged projects). Service assignments will be explored in consultation with the Department Chair and approved by the College Dean.
The University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), situated in the state's largest city, recognizes and values the diversity of our unique location in Southcentral Alaska, the ancestral homelands of the Dena'ina Athabascan, Ahtna Athabascan, Alutiiq/Sugpiak and Eyak peoples.
We are seeking a colleague with the knowledge and skills to engage with UAA's unique cultural environment. Campus diversity flows from the wellspring of Pacific Rim cultures, and the successful candidate will interact daily with students from Alaska Native, East Asian, and Pacific Island backgrounds and will need to provide compassionate support for each of these groups.
The successful candidate will join a department whose primary focus is writing instruction and whose faculty come to the work from a variety of backgrounds (creative writing, composition and rhetoric, humanities, and literature).
For full information and to apply, please visit the application link below.
The position is open until filled with an initial review date of December 19, 2022. To ensure consideration in the initial review, please apply prior to 11:55 PM Alaska Standard Time on December 18, 2022.
*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction. Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.
Application Deadline: 19-Dec-2022 (Open until filled)
Web Address for Applications:
https://careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/522330/assistant-professor-of-writing Contact Information:
Professor Jacqueline Cason
Email: jecason
alaska.edu
Phone: 907-786-4367
Page Updated: 03-Dec-2022