Adjunct Instructor, English
- English
- Adjunct Instructor
Title: Adjunct Instructor, English
Position Number: 200025
Unit/Department: English
Salary: Per credit hour
Department Summary:
The English department's most recent external review reports numerous strengths in our faculty, courses, and overall curriculum:
- Excellent, innovative, and rigorous teaching.
- Extraordinary care for students.
- Innovation of curriculum, with plentiful opportunities for students to apply their learning beyond the classroom.
- Connections between the department's mission and the goals of the University.
- Talented students with a strong commitment to their majors.
- Faculty who are active, productive scholars while fully committed to their teaching and administrative responsibilities.
Job Summary:
We are seeking to hire someone to teach a lower-level writing course, either Reading and Writing the Short Story, or Reading and Writing Poetry. Student enrollment in the course will be 20. The instructor for this course will hold 1.5 office hours per week.
We are also seeking someone to teach a section of English 63: Professional Communication, a course that serves both humanities majors and students in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. Student enrollment in the course will be 20. The instructor for this course will also hold 1.5 office hours per week.
Minimum Qualifications:
MA in a related field
Preferred Qualifications:
MA in a related field
Special Instructions to Applicants:
For consideration, you must apply online. Please include a resume and cover letter.
If you have any questions about this job positing or the application process, please email jeff.karnicky@drake.edu .
Review of Applications Begins:
For full consideration, apply by March 30. The position will remain posted until filled.
For faculty positions, selection will depend on the receipt of recommendation confirming the candidate's scholarly achievements and teaching abilities and/or on the candidate's satisfactory passing of a teaching demonstration if selected for an on-campus interview. For staff positions, selection will depend upon careful review of each applicant’s references, education, and, if applicable, experience.
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