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Assistant Professor of Professional / Workplace Writing with Specialization in Social Media

Job no: 533154
Location: San José State University, San José, California, USA

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. 
Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $ 85,000 - $90,000. 
See Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent employment benefits.

Target Start Date: August, 2024

Application Deadline: December 1, 2023

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 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.

For a complete job description and to apply: https://jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/533154/assistant-professor-of-professionalworkplace-writing-with-specialization-in-social-media?1ApplicationSubSourceID=11266

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