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Assistant Professor, Department of English

4 months ago

Riverside, United States La Sierra University Full time

The Department of English seeks to broaden the diversity of our full-time faculty with an opening for a full-time tenure track faculty position beginning July 1, 2025. The primary responsibility will be teaching undergraduate English courses including first-year composition, literature, and writing courses, as well as teaching graduate students in our MA program. 

 

Candidates should have university teaching experience and be committed to high quality instruction. In addition to teaching courses, all faculty members are expected to provide service to the department through student mentoring, recruitment, and curriculum development and assessment. Service on university committees and pursuing scholarship/research is also expected.

 

 

About the Department

The Department of English is responsible for providing the first-year writing courses for general education, offers an undergraduate English major with two tracks, and offers the only MA English program in the NAD. 

 

Wage Range: $66,560 to $68,000.00 (salary and rank are commensurate with qualifications and experience) plus generous benefits. 

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

 

Areas of specialization are open, but we are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of the following:

  • Composition and rhetoric

  • American and/or contemporary literature, an emphasis on race and ethnic studies would be appreciated

  • Experience and/or preparation for mentoring graduate students for teaching first-year writing courses

  • Writing instruction beyond first-year composition, including professional or creative writing 

  • Writing across the curriculum

 

Education/Experience/Qualifications

Earned terminal degree (MFA, PhD), or will have completed degree requirements by September 2025. Candidates must be members of the Seventh-day Adventist church.

 

Certificates and Licenses

Training and/or experience in teaching multilingual learners is desirable.

 

Application deadline: November 1, 2024

 

Position Available

Beginning July 1, 2025

 

Application

Qualified candidates should apply through the automated system. A letter of interest and curriculum vitae that lists references must be submitted electronically (when uploading a letter of application and CV on the automated system, it needs to be one document), as well as submit the same documents to:

Dr. Lora Geriguis (via lgerigui@lasierra.edu)

Chair, Department of English

La Sierra University

4500 Riverwalk Parkway

Riverside, CA 92515

 



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