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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 ([email protected]).

UWP Teaching Fellows

The University Writing Program welcomes two types of Teaching Fellows (TFs): Postdoctoral TFs and graduate student TFs. The program therefore invites recent Johns Hopkins PhDs and current graduate students with teaching experience to apply for teaching fellowships.

All fellowships are awarded for one year, pending satisfactory completion of the Teaching Writing Workshop (TWW) and Writing Center (WC) training in the fall. Fellowships for subsequent years are possible, depending on satisfactory performance and UWP’s teaching needs.

• Graduate student TFs who successfully complete the TWW and WC training in the fall will teach one section of Reintroduction to Writing (Reintro) in the spring.
• Postdoctoral TFs who successfully complete the TWW and WC training in the fall will teach three sections of Reintro in the spring. Postdocs also join UWP colleagues in the intellectual and pedagogical work of UWP and are welcome participants in UWP faculty meetings.

The Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship is a 9-month appointment paid over 12 months. Salary and benefits begin on July 1 and run through June 30 of the next year; the PhD defense must take place before July 1.

Compensation for graduate student TFS is the same as the package graduate students receive through their home departments. The university is currently in negotiations with TRU-UE, the graduate student union. The results of that negotiation may affect the standard graduate stipend.

Applications for all teaching Fellowships are due the Friday before spring break.

• For more information on the responsibilities of TFs, please see UWP Teaching Fellow Position Descriptions (PDF).

Questions about the application process can be addressed to Sandy Koullas, the Teaching Fellows Coordinator: [email protected].

Department Writing Fellows

The University Writing Program is piloting a new program for departments working on delivering Foundational Ability #1 (Writing and Communication): “department writing fellows,” a new type of graduate assistantship. The goal is to meet multiple needs, including:

• Providing departments with material support as they deliver new writing requirements in the major, a recent change across the Krieger curriculum
• Supporting graduate students, as they prepare for the job market, with training in writing pedagogy and faculty mentoring

Graduate students can come to these positions in two ways:

• They apply of their own volition and if selected, would be assigned by the UWP to a department in need of help designing and delivering FA #1
• A department identifies a writing-oriented curriculum project and endorses a grad student’s application for this internal project

Full and part-time fellowships are available. We have extended the application deadline for full-time fellowships in 2024-2025 and will continue to review applications as they come in through the end of May. Applications for part-time positions may be submitted anytime and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Questions about the application process can be addressed to Rebecca Wilbanks, Associate Director of the UWP for Writing in the Majors ([email protected]).