Council of Writing Program Administrators

Stanford University seeks several qualified teacher-scholars for our Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR), a unit within the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

1) Senior Lecturer / Director, Writing in the Major Program 2) One or two Senior Lecturers

1) We seek a Senior Lecturer to serve as Director of the Writing in the Major Program and Associate Director of Stanford’s Hume Writing Center. The WIM Program includes roughly 130 courses taught across the disciplines, each of which is certified by the Writing and Rhetoric Governance Board. The WIM Director oversees all aspects of the program by providing leadership and vision for the program’s mission; by offering support for and outreach to faculty and TAs through workshops, seminars, and individual meetings; by serving as liaison to chairs/directors and staff administrators across campus; and by administering the WIM budget. The Director also works closely with the Hume Writing Center, the senior administrative staff of PWR, and the Writing and Rhetoric Governance Board to support student writing, especially at the upper division level.

2) We also seek one or two additional Senior Lecturers to develop and teach intensive first- and second-year writing courses that fulfill the undergraduate writing and rhetoric requirement and to provide pedagogical, intellectual, and administrative leadership in PWR. We seek applicants with exceptionally strong records of teaching and scholarship, and successful experience developing and administering curricular and extra-curricular initiatives related to writing and rhetoric. Senior Lecturers will develop syllabi for their sections, participate in and provide leadership for professional development activities, train and mentor graduate student instructors, and participate in the work of the Hume Writing Center.

Positions are continuing appointments beginning in the fall of 2009 dependent on approval by appropriate university committees and the Office of the Provost.

Qualifications: Candidates should hold an advanced degree in English (Ph.D. preferred) or a related field and have demonstrated excellence in the teaching of writing and rhetoric and a proven ability to provide innovation and leadership in a writing program. Candidates with graduate training in other fields will be considered if they have demonstrated experience in and commitment to writing programs and the field of rhetoric and composition.

For further Information about these positions as well as the PWR and WIM programs, see http://pwr.stanford.edu and http://wim.stanford.edu.

To apply: Please send a letter of application (outlining your relevant administrative and teaching experience and interests in the teaching of writing and the field of rhetoric and composition), curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and a teaching portfolio including a statement of teaching philosophy, syllabi for writing courses, assignments, and evaluations by November 15, 2008 to Professor Andrea Lunsford, Director, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Bldg. 460, Rm. 223, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2085.