Assistant Teaching Professor, Creative Writing

Description

The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Teaching Professor position in Creative Writing with an anticipated start date of August 2025. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible appointment made on an academic year basis (Aug 16 – May 15). Teaching Professors typically teach four classes per academic term. Because this position entails significant administrative/service in the area of online curricular development, the teaching expectation would be three classes per academic term.

Essential Functions of the job: 

• Develop online creative writing courses and curriculum.
• Teach undergraduate students in creative writing courses both in-person and online.
• Oversee and participate in online curriculum development as their central service commitment.
• Engage in additional professional, university, and community service or professional development, as appropriate.

About the Department of English

The Department of English’s motto—“Start here, go anywhere”—captures the unique value of our undergraduate and graduate English degrees, ones that can serve students in any art form, any discipline, and any profession. In fact, our degrees can take students anywhere they wish to travel. The Department of English faculty is internationally renowned for innovative research and teaching and explores the pan-world expression of the English language and its literature, which span the global yet connect directly to the local. The skills of critical thinking, reading comprehension, and analytic expression cultivated in the degrees are transferable into any endeavor. In particular, such skills provide the foundation for creative problem-solving and cultivate individual and collective expression. The department takes as its purview not just historical positioned work, whether linguistic or textual, but includes all forms of expression and all modes of new media, whether analogical or digital. We emphasize writing—academic, creative, personal, public, and workplace—that explores difference reflectively and functionally. Our goal is to educate citizens who can think, read, write, and act in robust and significant ways to meet new challenges.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• MFA or PhD in Creative Writing or closely related field by the time of appointment
• A strong, active publication record in fiction, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction
• Evidence of strong commitment to undergraduate teaching and at least three years of experience teaching at the college level
• Demonstrated ability to teach in at least one area of expertise (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction)
• Demonstrated experience teaching in online or hybrid formats

Desired Qualifications: 

• Experience developing online classes/curriculum
• Experience writing and teaching in multiple genres (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction); experience teaching literature courses aimed at writers
• At least one published book of fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty, staff, students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter

Application Instructions

The application deadline is December 5, 2024. Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled. Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following application materials: 

1. A curriculum vitae

2. A letter outlining a teaching philosophy that includes a description of how the applicant’s experiences fit the area(s) of expertise listed above

3. Three (3) names with contact information for professional references to provide a letter of recommendation 

No paper applications, faxes or emails will be accepted. 

The applicant’s last name should appear in each uploaded file name. Questions about the position should be directed to the search committee chair Professor Matthew Bell at mdbell2@asu.edu. 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

A background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.

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