Assistant Professor of Writing Languages and Literatures (Composition and Rhetoric)

FACULTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

DEPARTMENT OF WRITING, LANGUAGES, AND LITERATURES

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF WRITING, LANGUAGES, AND LITERATURES (COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC)

FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK

THE UNIVERSITY: California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), one of the 23 California State Universities, is a comprehensive university serving the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley. We are proud of our mission to support a richly diverse student body through academically rich and culturally relevant learning experiences. We are designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) as well as an Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI), and we have the second highest percentage of Black students in the CSU system. Our student population reflects a variety of abilities and identities. Many are the first in their family to attend college. Our students come from a number of regional community colleges and high schools. The successful candidate will bring with them expertise or an openness to creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all of our students. 

We are known for our award-winning programs, expert instruction, diverse student body, and a choice of more than 100 career-focused fields of study. With an enrollment of approximately 10,000 students and 900 faculty, the University offers bachelor’s degrees in 49 fields, minors in 52 fields, master’s degrees in 34 fields, 16 credentials programs, 18 certificate options, and one doctoral degree program. Cal State East Bay has three locations: the main 342 acre campus in the Hayward hills, the Concord Center, and the downtown Oakland Center.

For more information on CSUEB, please visit: http://www20.csueastbay.edu/ or https://www.csueastbay.edu/about/mission-and-strategic-planning/index.html

THE DEPARTMENT: Our newly formed Department of Writing, Languages, and Literatures (WLL) believes in the transformative power of writing. Bringing together the Departments of English and Modern Languages and Literatures in fall 2024, WLL consists of 40 educators (15 tenure-line, 25 lecturer faculty) with varied lived experiences and interests. Our department serves diverse students across campus through our composition program and other general education (GE) offerings. Our GE offerings focus on themes of diversity, social justice, and environmental justice in composition, literature, creative writing, and cultural studies.

For our more than 130 English and Spanish majors and 90 minors in English, creative writing, and five distinct languages, we offer courses in literature, creative writing, composition, linguistics, languages, cultural studies, and language arts pedagogy. Our BAs in English and Spanish foster understanding and appreciation of English- and Spanish-language literatures and writing from around the globe, with emphasis on works by and about ethnic and cultural minorities and women; the history, structure, and socio-cultural aspects of English, Spanish, and other languages; and the aims and processes of creative and critical writing. Our department strives to provide safe and supportive spaces for our students with various life experiences through collaborations with programs like GANAS, Project IMPACT, and Project Rebound. 

THE DUTIES OF THE POSITION: The department seeks a tenure-line teacher/scholar/administrator/activist in composition, rhetoric, and writing studies. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in the Writing, Languages and Literatures majors, composition, and other general education areas. The successful candidate will coordinate the current composition program and creatively direct sustainable writing pedagogies and curriculum. As our department collaboratively works to reinvigorate and reimagine our composition program, this position provides space for   growing and evolving our composition coursework through innovative and culturally relevant methods. The successful candidate should sustain an active research agenda, coordinate professional development to support composition faculty, and provide support to university initiatives such as increasing first-year retention rates and eliminating equity gaps for historically underserved students in first-year composition. 

The successful candidate’s teaching, research, and administrative experience engage with