22.4807, Jobs: Specialty Open: Chair, Texas Tech University

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Subject: 22.4807, Jobs: Specialty Open: Chair, Texas Tech University

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Date: 02-Dec-2011
From: Mary Jane Hurst [maryjane.hurst at ttu.edu]
Subject: Specialty Open: Chair, Texas Tech University, USA


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Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:24:52
From: Mary Jane Hurst [maryjane.hurst at ttu.edu]
Subject: Specialty Open: Chair, Texas Tech University, USA

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University or Organization: Texas Tech University 
Department: English
Job Location: Texas, USA 
Web Address: http://www.english.ttu.edu/
Job Rank: Chair of Department  

Specialty Areas: Specialty Open


Description:

The Department of English at Texas Tech University invites applications for 
the position of chairperson to begin July 15, 2012. Applicants should have 
academic credentials commensurate with appointment to rank of tenured 
full professor and must have strong administrative, research, and teaching 
records. 

We are looking for a judicious scholar- administrator of national or 
international reputation who can contribute to one or more of the 
department's core areas of research and teaching, work cooperatively with 
faculty and students of diverse disciplines, and demonstrate experience 
with managing budgets, supervising instructors and staff, and assessing 
academic programs. 

This individual will guide the administration of programs in composition and 
rhetoric, creative writing, film, linguistics, literary studies, and technical 
communication. The successful candidate must be able to provide 
leadership in realizing the department's strategic vision, promoting the 
humanities, addressing the challenges of public higher education, and 
cultivating civic engagement.

It is expected that the chair, like all new faculty, will be engaged in 
scholarship or creative activity that attracts outside funding in the form of 
fellowships, grants, exhibits, and similar kinds of support.

The Department of English is large (52 faculty, 500 undergraduate majors, 
150 graduate students), dynamic, and diverse, with B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. 
degrees in English and B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in Technical 
Communication. We lead the university in online education. The 
department cooperates in interdepartmental programs in linguistics and 
comparative literature at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The 
department supports three scholarly journals (Conradiana, The Eighteenth 
Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Technical Communication 
Quarterly), and three literary journals (32 Poems, Harbinger, and Iron 
Horse Literary Review) as well as the Digital Humanities Lab, LetterPress 
Lab, Multiple Literacies Lab, and Usability Research Lab. We have hosted 
several national conferences and will host the Western American Literature 
Conference in November 2012. For more information, please visit 
http://www.english.ttu.edu.

Texas Tech University is a growing state-supported institution, with a law 
school and medical school and colleges of Arts and Sciences, Agriculture, 
Architecture, Business Administration, Engineering, Human Sciences, 
Mass Communications, and Visual and Performing Arts. The College of 
Arts and Sciences represents 35% of the total enrollment of 32,000.

Candidates must apply online at the application URL below (#84370) with 
letter of application and vita by January 15, 2012. Screening starts January 
16. Letters of recommendation will be solicited later from exceptionally 
qualified candidates. Please direct inquiries to John Zak, Associate Dean of 
Arts & Sciences, at john.zak at ttu.edu.


Application Deadline: 15-Jan-2012 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://jobs.texastech.edu/ 
Contact Information:
	Dr. Mary Jane Hurst 
	Email: maryjane.hurst at ttu.edu 




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