<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-9f3512ea-7fff-6d23-01e0-b4f5500a9abf"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Writing Studies Position in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Department of Writing Studies invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track or tenured faculty position beginning fall semester 2025 (8/25/2025). Appointment will be made at the rank of Advanced Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor. The Department of Writing Studies has a strong commitment to advancing equity, accessibility, and diversity in all aspects of our work and we are interested in candidates who can support and expand this commitment. We seek a candidate with an active research agenda in technical and professional communication, which we conceive of broadly to include scholarship and teaching that investigates writing with and about technology and technical knowledge for a wide range of audiences and purposes. In conjunction with this specialization, we seek candidates whose research and teaching engage with contemporary key issues in the field such as emerging technologies and literacies, user experience, international/transnational communication, social justice and narrative inquiry, queer rhetorics, disability studies, and/or accessibility.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For more information, and to apply, visit </span><a href="https://hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Find a Job | University of Minnesota Office of Human Resources</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. To find the position select external candidate or U of M employee and search for job code 365749. Priority will be given to completed applications received by December 13, 2024, but applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Questions can be sent to </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:writ@umn.edu">writ@umn.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. </span></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:1rem 0rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#404d5b">--</font><br><b><font color="#000000">Molly Margaret Kessler, PhD | </font></b></span><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px">she/her/hers</span><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><br></span></font><font style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#000000">Associate Professor<br>Director of Graduate Studies </font><font color="#404d5b">| </font></font><a href="https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies/graduate/research-programs" style="letter-spacing:0.45px" target="_blank"><font color="#660000">MA & PhD in RSTC</font></a>, <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies/graduate/professional-programs" style="letter-spacing:0.45px" target="_blank"><font color="#660000">Cert. & MS in TC </font></a><br><font style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#000000">Associate Chair |</font> <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies" target="_blank"><font color="#660000">Department of </font></a><a href="https://cla.umn.edu/writing-studies" target="_blank"><font color="#660000">Writing Studies</font></a><font color="#741b47"> </font></font><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#000000">| </font></span><font><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#000000">University of Minnesota</font><br></span></font><span style="letter-spacing:0.45px"><font color="#000000">Assistant Editor</font></span><span style="color:rgb(64,77,91);letter-spacing:0.45px"> | </span><a href="http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/index" style="font-style:italic" target="_blank"><font color="#660000">Rhetoric of Health and Medicine </font></a></font></p><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>