Assistant Professor of English‐Creative Writing

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DeLand, Florida, United States Stetson University Full time

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

POSITION:
Assistant Professor of English‐Creative Writing
Stetson University invites applications for a position as Assistant Professor of English-Creative Writing; the
successful candidate will hold the position of Director of the MFA of the Americas Program, the distinctive
low-residency graduate program in creative writing in the English Department and College of the Arts and
Sciences. The position is a tenure track, twelve-month appointment and features the MFA academic
calendar and two ten-day residencies, which occur in December and May.

QUALIFICATIONS:
We seek a dedicated teacher-scholar with administrative experience who can guide our MFA of the
Americas creative writing program. An MFA in Creative Writing is required along with a record of
publications in prose. The successful candidate should have three to five years of
administrative/management experience and college-level teaching experience. Experience in
organizing program travel outside of the United States is preferred. We are particularly interested
in candidates with experience or interest in engaging students from diverse backgrounds.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
In this twelve-month position, the MFA Program Director is responsible for the academic excellence and
vitality of the MFA program, including a curriculum and structure that aligns with AWP hallmarks for lowresidency programs.

The MFA Program Director is responsible for administering the program:
this will
include coordinating two annual MFA residences, one of which is local, overseeing admissions, recruiting,
and marketing, supervising staff and MFA adjuncts, and handling the budgeting.
This position also includes teaching two creative writing (ENCW) classes in prose each year.
The successful candidate should demonstrate a record of excellence in teaching, combined with a record of
creative publications in prose. Creative activity leading to publication in peer-reviewed journals and
service to the Department, the College of Arts and Sciences, the University, and the profession are required.
For more information on our expectations in teaching and scholarship, our tenure policies, and our support
for faculty development, please see the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs website:

THE DEPARTMENT
The English department is a vibrant community of undergraduate, graduate, and faculty writers
that supports the English major and minor, the Creative Writing Minor, and the MFA of the
Americas program; we likewise support area studies programs, the Gender Studies program, the
Pre-Law advisory program, and the University Writing Program. We are committed to engaging our
students and colleagues in scholarship, critique, and creative practice. For more information, see
the department web


page:
The MFA of the Americas is designed to develop writers whose creative practice embodies an
expanded notion of inquiry, making, contexts and kinships. The curriculum emphasizes craft,
experimentation, reading strategies, collaboration, translation, site-specificity and an exploration of
the political, social, aesthetic and cultural constellations that form us and our work. For more
information, see the MFA Experience

page:
Since 1995, the Sullivan Creative Writing program has sponsored curriculum, student scholarships
and faculty support for creative practitioners who make work using text.

THE
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES:
Stetson's College of Arts and Sciences ) is the largest and
most diverse of the University's colleges and schools. With nineteen academic departments and
nine interdisciplinary programs, the College is the liberal arts core of the University; it includes the
humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, education, and creative arts. A great strength of the
College is its faculty of approximately 150 full-time teacher-scholars. The College offers 38
undergraduate majors and 40 undergraduate minors; six graduate degrees are offered in
Education, Counselor Education, and Creative Writing. Every undergraduate major requires a
senior research project, giving students the opportunity to design and carry out independent
research under faculty mentorship. Our academic programs are shaped by the values of social
justice and civic responsibility.
All our courses and programs of study promote engaged learning, whereby students create
connections between the classroom or lab and the local, regional, and global community. The
academic programs of the College of Arts and Sciences prepare students to live significant lives, to
interact with and positively affect the world around them.

THE UNIVERSITY:
Founded in 1883, Stetson University ) is a private, selective university
comprised of a rich array of liberal arts and professional academic programs. Collectively, Stetson's
faculty works with nearly 3,700 students in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs.
The University's historic main campus, located in DeLand, enrolls more than 2,300 students in
undergraduate programs in the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Business Administration,
and the School of Music. Stetson University College of Law, Florida's first law school, moved from
the main campus to Gulfport in 1954, and, with the addition of the Tampa Law Center, serves
approximately 1,000 students working full-time or part-time toward J.D. or LL.M. degrees. Graduate
programs offered include Business, Accounting, Educational Leadership, Counseling, and Creative
Writing. Florida's oldest private institution of higher learning, Stetson has regularly been ranked
among the best regional universities in the Southeast and was the first private college in Florida to
be granted a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Stetson University provides an inspiring education that engages students with rigorous academic
and creative study grounded in liberal learning and promotes civic values of personal and social
responsibility. Working closely with faculty and with one another, students cultivate abilities to
explore issues deeply, think critically, reason empirically, speak persuasively, and connect ideas
creatively. Firmly committed to inclusive excellence, our vibrant community of teacher-scholars
nurtures the potential of individual students to lead lives of significance and prepares each to meet
the challenges of shaping the future—locally, nationally, and globally.

THE COMMUNITY:
DeLand is a picturesque residential community of 38,000 located 20 miles west of Daytona Beach
and 35 miles northeast of Orlando. The area offers extensive cultural as well as recreational
activities.

SALARY:
Salary is competitive.

STARTING DATE:
July 1, 2024

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