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Faculty

The University Writing Program (UWP) at Johns Hopkins University, an independent writing program, is seeking candidates for multiple faculty positions at the rank of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. These are full-time, non-tenured but renewable, career-oriented faculty positions starting in Fall 2025. Lecturers are hired on 3-year renewable contracts, and Senior Lecturers on 5-year renewable contracts.

The successful candidate will join the UWP at an ongoing moment of transformation. The program has recently launched a universal first-year writing requirement and is helping departments to integrate more writing into the majors, while also developing an increasing diverse array of writing electives, including especially community-engaged writing classes, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. New faculty will join a collaborative, creative faculty in the midst of crafting a new culture of writing at a distinguished research university.

The search committee seeks candidates with expertise in writing in the disciplines, especially in applied linguistics and/or rhetoric of public health and medicine in both their teaching practices and research agendas, to build a more comprehensive representation of these subfields. An ideal candidate would also bring to this specialization demonstrated experience with community-engaged pedagogy, anti-racist pedagogy, assessment, and/or teaching for transfer.

The full-time teaching load is 2-2. In addition to teaching first-year writing, UWP faculty develop and teach courses in areas such as public writing, digital writing, professional writing, advanced academic and research writing, and more, as well as serve on committees and in leadership positions in the program.

The expected academic base salary range for these positions is: $50,000-$100,500. The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will be based on factors including, but not limited to, the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate – e.g., years in rank, training, field, discipline, other work experience, and other similar factors; geographic location; internal equity; external market conditions; and other factors as reasonably determined by the University.

Questions about the application process can be addressed to Wenqi Cui, Senior Lecturer and Associate Director of the UWP Writing Center (wcui9@jh.edu).

UWP Teaching Fellows

The University Writing Program invites recent Hopkins PhD graduates to apply for Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships for the 2025/26 academic year. 

To be eligible, the PhD must have been received no earlier than July 1, 2020, and the defense must be scheduled for no later than May 1, 2025. Review of applications will begin on March 15th, 2025.

In Spring 2025, we will extend the deadline for the dissertation defense to June 1^st on the following conditions:

• We need a letter from the student’s advisor stating that they fully expect the defense to happen before June 1st
• This letter needs to be received by April 1st at the latest, and ideally with the application, which is due on March 15th.
• Once the defense is scheduled, we need to be informed.

Please note that review of applications begins March 15th.

Questions about the application process can be addressed to Sandy Koullas, the Teaching Fellows Program Coordinator (skoll1@jhu.edu).

Department Writing Fellows

The University Writing Program’s Department Writing Fellows program serves the dual purpose of 1) providing departments with material support as they deliver new writing requirements in the major, a recent change across the Krieger curriculum; and 2) supporting graduate students and recent graduates with training in writing pedagogy and faculty mentoring as they prepare for the job market. 

Graduate students may apply for either a part-time (8-10 hours/ week supplementary hourly pay) or full-time position (the equivalent of a graduate student package, working nearly but less than 20 hours per week).

Postdoctoral fellowships are full-time, 9-month appointments paid over 12 months. Current compensation, determined by the Krieger School, is $46,500 plus qualified benefits. The expected workload for postdoctoral fellows is the equivalent of a 2-2 teaching load plus service.

As part of the application process, the host department/ program and the fellow will propose specific duties to support writing in the major, which may include:  

• Designing and piloting a new class that contributes to the major’s writing curriculum 
• Creating new instructional materials or updating existing materials (such as assignments, peer review processes, or handbooks/ manuals for writing in a course or major)
• Providing students with feedback and grading
• Offering other types of writing support, such as writing workshops or office hours, to benefit students across multiple courses
• Mentoring students working on independent research projects
• Creating programming to enhance the culture of writing in the major and beyond (for example, organizing a talk in which a faculty member in the department discusses the writing process around a recent publication)
• Other teaching-related activities or projects identified by the department to support writing in the major
• Working with other departments/ majors identified by the UWP and/ or documenting practices for the Teaching Writing Toolkit to support writing in Krieger

Fellows will work closely with faculty in their department or program and will receive training and mentoring from UWP faculty in writing pedagogy. Full-time graduate and postdoctoral fellows are expected to enroll in or audit the Teaching Writing Workshop, a 3-credit graduate-level course on the theory and practice of teaching writing that meets weekly in the fall. 

While the duties of a Department Writing Fellow may, in some circumstances, be similar to those of a Teaching Assistant, the Department Writing Fellows program emphasizes activities that contribute to building the writing curriculum in the major, with the potential to have an impact beyond the tenure of the fellowship.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as long as funds are available, with an initial round of review beginning on April 1. More details about the application can be found on the application form below, where applicants will be asked to submit the following documents:

• CV and cover letter from the candidate describing their interest in and qualifications for the role
• A letter of support from the DUS and/ or Chair of the department or program, describing the proposed duties of the fellow and how they will support the development of the undergraduate writing curriculum

Questions about the fellowship or application process can be addressed to Rebecca Wilbanks, Associate Director of the UWP for Writing in the Majors (rwilban2@jhu.edu). We welcome inquiries from departments or programs that are considering hosting a fellow.