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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear All, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please consider forwarding this job description (pasted below) to anyone you think might be interested. I’m happy to answer any questions about the teaching track as well as questions regarding the connection between the Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh and Qatar campuses.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We’ve posted this ad on the MLA and TESOL job lists, as well as AAAL.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Danielle<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Danielle Zawodny Wetzel, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Director, First-Year Writing Program<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Associate Teaching Professor of Rhetoric and English<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carnegie Mellon University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: Baker Porter 259<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Direct: 412-268-4468<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Department: 412-268-2850<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fax: 412-268-7989<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:dfz@andrew.cmu.edu">dfz@andrew.cmu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"Swallow your pride occasionally--it's not fattening." Frank Tyger<o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>Assistant Teaching Professor (Rhetoric/Composition, Second Language Writing)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>DESCRIPTION OF POSTION:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'> The Department of English at Carnegie Mellon invites applications for a full-time (9-month), position as Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon’s Qatar campus beginning in Fall 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>Carnegie Mellon’s Qatar campus is a highly selective branch campus of Carnegie Mellon University and has served a diverse student body since 2004. We offer undergraduate majors in Biological Sciences, Business Administration, Computational Biology, Computer Science, and Information Systems. Current enrollment is approximately 350 students representing 39 countries. Approximately 40% of the students are Qatari. All classes are coeducational, with 52% female students. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>A 2/2 teaching load will include courses within the First-year Writing Program as well as an occasional upper-level course that would appeal to students as a General Education elective; a Professional Writing minor or English Studies minor requirement or elective; or meet a writing/communications requirement in a major. The course would typically relate to the faculty member’s area of specialization. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>APPOINTMENT AND RANK</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>: <span style='color:#262626'>Assistant Teaching Professor is a nontenure-track faculty career position with provision for renewal and promotion to Associate Teaching and Full Teaching Professor. </span>Full Teaching Professors must fulfill two criteria: (1) to be outstanding educators within <span style='color:#262626'>Carnegie Mellon, for example, through </span>excellence in classroom teaching, curricular development, program leadership, and student advising and mentoring; and (2) to be <span style='color:#262626'>nationally or internationally known for contributions to education or to research. Assistant and Associate Teaching faculty must demonstrate that they will, in due course, fulfill these criteria. Salary is competitive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'> Requirements include a PhD in Rhetoric/Composition, Professional/Technical Writing, Second Language Writing, Second Language Studies, or related field. Knowledge and experience related to teaching writing is also required.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'> We desire a candidate with knowledge related to teaching English in transnational contexts. We also desire candidates with research agendas that demonstrate synergies between their scholarship, pedagogy, and professional development that are relevant to the Carnegie Mellon Qatar campus. Such synergies might include, but are not limited to, studies of professional and technical writing contexts, especially global and/or multilingual; writing in the disciplines, especially science and engineering; rhetoric of science; and new media, especially web design and social media. We are open to social science as well as humanities methodologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRomanPSMT","sans-serif";color:black'>The university is especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>APPLICATION PROCEDURE:</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'> Candidates are encouraged to submit PDFs of materials electronically to </span><a href="mailto:vm29@andrew.cmu.edu"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>vm29@andrew.cmu.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>. Send letter of application, CV, three current letters of reference, sample course syllabi, recent course evaluations and a writing sample to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Professor Danielle Zawodny Wetzel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>c/o Vickie McKay<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ATTN: Assistant Professor - Qatar<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Department of English, Baker Hall 259, Pittsburgh, PA 15213<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'>Screening of application materials will continue until the position is filled. Materials must arrive by email or be postmarked no later than <b>February 17</b> to be assured of full consideration. If materials are mailed, please send email indicating that they have been sent. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#262626'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Carnegie Mellon is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>