Position Rank and Title: Assistant Professor of Professional/Workplace
Writing with Specialization in Social Media (Tenure-track)

School/Department Name: English and Comparative Literature

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as
established by the CSU Salary Schedule
<https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/careers/compensation/Pages/salary-
schedule.aspx>.
Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $ 85,000 – $90,000.
See Benefits Summary
<https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/careers/benefits/Documents/employee-
benefits-summary.pdf>
for details about the CSU’s excellent employment benefits.

Target Start Date: August, 2024

Application Deadline: December 1, 2023

Position Description

The Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Jose State
University seeks an Assistant Professor to teach advanced writing courses;
to develop and teach courses in social media, workplace writing, editing
for writers, and other areas related to writing for professional
publication; and to contribute to and work with other writing faculty and
administrators in a multi-faceted, comprehensive writing program.

Preferred: Experience and expertise in current workplace writing practices
and technology (graphics, audio, and video), including production, content
management, and digital publishing tools. Workplace/industry experience is
highly desirable. Successful applicants would teach in a large department
that includes First Year Writing, our BA concentrations in English, Teacher
Prep, Creative Writing, Professional and Technical Writing, and graduate MA
and MFA programs in Literature and Creative Writing.

The successful candidate would be joining a department whose diverse
students and faculty produce an award-winning student-run journal that is
the oldest literary magazine west of the Mississippi, Reed Magazine;
oversee the Center for Literary Arts, a speaker series which brings a
continually changing array of the best of contemporary creative writers to
campus a half dozen times a year; support the Martha Heasley Cox Center for
Steinbeck Studies which in turn oversees the Steinbeck Fellows, a residency
program for creative writers as well as a scholarship program for graduate
students; run a vast range of interdisciplinary events and programming
funded by our college’s Artistic Excellence Programming Grants; work with
the Lurie Visiting Author, a Creative Writer chosen each year to join us as
a faculty member for a semester; and focus on empowering students from a
variety socioeconomic backgrounds to claim careers in education, tech and
other industries. Our university will also be the site for a new NEH-funded
Digital Humanities Center next Fall.  Located in the heart of Silicon
Valley, SJSU educates a large number of alumni who go on to work at
companies whose technology shapes the national and international
discourse.  It is thus imperative that our students are prepared with the
critical thinking and writing skills needed to take on transformative roles
in our society.

Required Qualifications

   – Ph.D in a field such as Professional and Technical Writing, Rhetoric
   and Composition, or English
   – Ability and interest in teaching courses in writing for social media
   and other areas relevant to a growing program in Professional and Technical
   Writing
   – Applicants should demonstrate an awareness of and sensitivity to the
   educational goals of a socially and economically diverse student population
   as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching, and
   other comparable experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Priority will be given to candidates who possess one or more of the
following:

   – Industry experience in technical and/or professional writing.
   – Experience teaching or working in digital writing and rhetoric;
   editing; technical communication; multimodal composition; and new media
   – Interest and ability in teaching and mentoring students who may be
   focused on a variety of fields that our large department covers, including
   First Year Writing, our BA concentrations in English, Teacher Prep,
   Creative Writing, Professional and Technical Writing, and graduate MA and
   MFA programs in Literature and Creative Writing as well students from
   across the college.

Key Responsibilities

   – The candidate will teach and develop classes in our Professional and
   Technical Writing Program and potentially contribute elsewhere in the
   department or college curriculum such as teaching for our Journalism
   Department or our Humanities Marketing internship class (HA 187).
   – The candidate will participate in shared governance, usually in
   department, college, and university committees and other service
   assignments.
   – Faculty shall organize all their classes within the Canvas Learning
   Management System (LMS).
   – The candidate must demonstrate awareness and experience understanding
   the needs of a student population of great diversity – in age, abilities,
   cultural background, ethnicity, religion, economic background, primary
   language, sexual orientation, gender identity, and academic preparation –
   through inclusive course materials, teaching strategies and advisement.

For more information, see here:
https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/533154/assistant-professor-of-professionalworkplace-writing-with-specialization-in-social-media