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Job Ad: Tenure-Track in Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University

Elon University invites applications for the following tenure-track faculty position in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) program. If you or someone you know is particularly enthusiastic about working closely with colleagues to make a rhetorically focused professional writing education come alive for undergraduate students, please consider applying or encouraging interested colleagues to apply.

 

The ad below offers a description of the position, but first some additional information about the program and Elon:

 

PWR is “major-like”:  Officially a “concentration” within an English department, the program requires six core PWR courses, including an internship and a studio course, as well as multiple and wide-ranging elective opportunities. PWR students get a rhetorical education that is quite “major-like,” and consequently, faculty have opportunities to teach a wide variety of courses.

 

PWR is dynamic:  PWR program is still a dynamic, growing program at Elon. Though the faculty, students, and courses share a strong mission and general vision, there are many new developments underfoot and much room for other growth. Our students and faculty work closely together on various research projects, client-based and service-learning projects, and workshops, all supported through our Center for Undergraduate Publishing and Information Design (CUPID). We also have a growing interdisciplinary minor in Professional Writing Studies that is attracting attention on campus.

 

PWR faculty are widely interested and active:  Elon is a place where people can pursue a wide variety of interests and participate in a wide variety of ways. In addition to teaching PWR classes, PWR faculty teach and have taught study abroad courses, advanced interdisciplinary seminars, special topic courses in English outside of PWR, and courses in interdisciplinary programs like environmental studies, multi-media authoring, classical studies, and leadership studies. The PWR faculty are involved in an expansive array of campus, administrative, and community service work. And PWR faculty pursue active and diverse research agendas.

 

PWR students are widely interested and active, also:  PWR students share a common commitment to rhetoric and professional writing, and many have double majors or double concentrations within English, most have at least one minor/cognate, a great number study abroad, and almost all have at least one internship experience. To see what our students are up to, read our CUPID blog maintained by student CUPID Associates at http://blogs.elon.edu/cupid/. Our students go on to pursue an exciting variety of post-graduate experiences, from publishing to public relations, editing to writing for non-profits, Teach for America and graduate and law school, and more creative pathways in hospital fundraising, university student affairs, lobbying, and even forestry.

 

You can learn more about our program at http://www.elon.edu/pwr/.

 

Please consider applying or encouraging others to apply.

 

Official Ad: 

 

ENGLISH Rhetoric and Writing. Elon University invites applications for a tenure-track, Assistant Professor position in Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) in the English department starting August 2014. Ph.D. in Professional Communication, Rhetoric and Writing, or related field, and record of excellence in teaching required. The successful candidate will teach courses within the concentration’s core and PWR electives, as well as first-year writing and courses within the University’s General Studies program.  Preferred areas of specialization include visual rhetorics, international rhetorics, or writing for non-profits or NGOs.  Send letter of application, CV, teaching philosophy, research interests, and three letters of recommendation to the search chair Dr. Rebecca Pope-Ruark at ENGPWR@elon.edu, including in the subject line your name, please.  Application materials must be received by January 15, 2014.  Position will remain open until filled.  Elon is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning.  To learn more about Elon, please visit our website (http://www.elon.edu/).  Elon University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body and welcomes all applicants.

Job Ad: Lecturer in Composition at Elon University

ENGLISH  Composition. Elon University invites applications for a position as a permanent lecturer in English composition beginning mid-August 2014.

 

The candidate will principally teach in the first-year writing program and will also support Elon University’s General Studies program.  Lecturers teach seven courses per year. Opportunities for writing program leadership and teaching an introductory TESOL course are possible.

 

Lecturers are permanent faculty members with a continuance process and opportunity for promotion to Senior Lecturer, annual travel funds, and the opportunity to apply for other forms of university support.

 

Requirements: Master’s degree or higher in composition/rhetoric or a related area; two years of teaching experience at the college level and a record of excellence in teaching; and demonstrated professional commitment to teaching first-year writing courses.  Primary teaching and research interests must be in composition.

 

Elon is a dynamic, private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning.  To learn more about Elon, please visit the University web site at (http://www.elon.edu).

 

Review of applications will begin November 15, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a statement of teaching philosophy to englecturer@elon.edu.Please include your name in the subject line.

 

Elon University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff and student body and welcomes all applicants.

New employees paid by direct deposit only.

Call for Nominations: CarolinasWPA Executive Board

The Carolinas WPA serves as an affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. All Executive Board members should be a member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (or be willing to obtain such membership upon election to the board).

 

Nomination Process
To nominate someone or yourself, please review the open positions below. You may nominate someone with their permission for any of the positions listed below. You may, of course, nominate yourself for one of the available positions.

 

Send an email indicating clearly the person’s name, status at their institution (Assistant Professor, Doctoral Student, etc.), their affiliation, and the position for which you are nominating. You may include a very brief paragraph as to why this person might be a good fit for the board/position and for the organization.

 

Once the deadline for nominations has expired, the board will develop a ballot to be sent via the CWPA Listserv where all who are subscribed to the CWPA list will have an opportunity to vote on the candidates nominated for each position. The board will count and verify votes. Once the voting has ended and the votes have been verified, we will announce the new board members and their respective positions.

 

Please send all nominations to Tony Atkins atkinsa@uncw.edu and Lynne Rhodes lynner@usca.edu no later than Friday, October 11.

 
1) President-Elect position.
This person will serve a term of one year in this role: January 1, 2014, until January 1, 2015, at which time this person will become president of the organization for a 2-year term beginning January 1, 2015, through January 1, 2017.
[Typically, the President-Elect is a two-year term. Circumstances have dictated that we deviate from our usual practice. In this case, the President-Elect will serve for one year before moving into the President Position.]

 

The President-Elect has two distinct roles. First the President-Elect is responsible for organizing the Meeting in the Middle (working with the host institution, developing the theme, inviting speaker/s, food, program, etc.) Second, the President-elect works directly with the President to help provide or otherwise submit panels to SAMLA and other related conferences (such as TYCA, NCETA, and/or NCEI). Additionally, the President-Elect will help in other capacities like contributing to the Annual Fall Retreat each year and organizing our annual Conference on College Composition and Communication recruitment event. This person is also expected to move into the President role upon completing a term as President-Elect.

 

2) Secretary Position
This person will serve a term of three years in this role: January 1, 2014-January 1, 2017.
This person is responsible for taking detailed minutes of each board meeting and sending them to the board for review. The secretary is also responsible for managing our constitution, and helping the board and president follow proper protocol for any elections or motions made during board meetings. (Secretary should be familiar with Robert’s Rules of Order, keep detailed notes, and maintain records of all meetings.)

 

3) At-Large Position: South Carolina Representative
This person will serve a term of two years in this role: January 1, 2014-January 1, 2016.
At-Large positions on the board serve multiple purposes. One is to ensure representation from both states (NC/SC). Another is to conduct out-reach within the representative state to recruit other members from NC/SC and community colleges. At-Large positions help to organize both the Meeting in the Middle and the Annual Fall Retreat. At-Large positions manage or otherwise put together panels for other conferences like SAMLA, TYCA, NCETA and/or NCEI with the help of the board). They may contribute in other ways as initiatives arise.

 

4) At-Large Position: North Carolina Representative
This person will serve a term of two years in this role: January 1, 2014-January 1, 2016.
At-Large positions on the board serve multiple purposes. One is to ensure representation from both states (NC/SC). Another is to conduct out-reach within the representative state to recruit other members from NC/SC and community colleges. At-Large positions help to organize both the Meeting in the Middle and the Annual Fall Retreat. At-Large positions manage or otherwise put together panels for other conferences like SAMLA, TYCA, NCETA and/or NCEI with the help of the board). They may contribute in other ways as initiatives arise.

Call for Proposals: Fall Carolinas WPA Conference at Wildacres

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Carolinas WPA

 

Making Connections: The WPA as Worker, Writer, and Scholar

 

September 16-18, 2013 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

 

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 26, 2013

 

Conference Theme and Design– The Carolinas Council of Writing Program Administrators will hold its annual fall gathering at Wildacres Retreat Center celebrating our 10th Anniversary of Affiliate Status. While the group met before earning affiliate status, we find this the occasion to celebrate! Come and celebrate with us the change of seasons and the sustainability of the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators with Featured Speaker Doug Hesse who will provide a keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop.

 

This year we want to celebrate the work that we do as WPAs. We invite proposals that consider the writing, service, and work that we do. How do you represent that work in your scholarship? Facilitated by Doug Hesse, we plan to conduct a writing workshop that helps us as researchers and scholars to consider all of the work that we do and how we write and research about that work.

 

Conference Schedule and Format– The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about who we are as writers, researchers, and WPAs.

 

Featured Speaker

Doug Hesse: “Writers or Administrators?  Writerly Identities v. Bureaucratic Gravities.”

 

This talk will include an exploration of three kinds of core identities for WPAs: writer, scholar, and administrator.  These certainly can and do overlap, and to assert that any one of them predominates in a WPA’s work (or in the orientation of the field of WPA work) is to risk a false trinary. We are in an historical moment in which the administrative identity threatens to swallow the others, with detrimental effect.  Much of this is due to strong forces in higher education and beyond, and some of it, to the professionalization of the WPA position. Hesse will make a case for countervailing writerly identities that complicate and enrich administrative roles, roles certainly vital but also dangerously beguiling.

 

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 16, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 18.

 

Proposals – We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 500 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes your project
  • One paragraph about your intended audience or publication/presentation venue
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project

 

Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis pending space. Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Lynne Rhodes (lynner@usca.edu) and Anthony T. Atkins (atkinsa@uncw.edu) by Monday, August 26, 2013.

 

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding for all participants. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

 

Registration and Cost – The registration price of $165 includes lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. The registration deadline is Friday, August 30, 2013, with no refunds after September 7, 2013. Prior to September 7, 2013, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

 

This year while registering for the conference you will have an option to purchase a $10.00 Carolinas WPA 10th Anniversary Commemorative Long-sleeve t-shirt. Be sure to indicate the size shirt you prefer.

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Lynne Rhodes at lynner@usca.edu or Anthony T. Atkins at atkinsa@uncw.edu. 

Meeting in the Middle 2013 Agenda

Seventh Annual Meeting in the Middle

Friday, February 22, 2013

9:30 AM – 3:00 PM

UNC Charlotte Center City Building, Room 905-906
320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

http://centercity.uncc.edu/

Theme:  Advocacy in Composition Studies

 

Invited Speaker

 

Amanda Wray
UNC Asheville

Dr. Wray teaches courses in “History of the English Language and the Teaching of Writing” (linguistics and writing pedagogy for teaching licensure students earning a literature or creative writing degree), “Foundations of Academic Writing” (first year writing), “Professional Writing,” creative nonfiction workshops, as well as social activism rhetorics and literature. In all the courses she teaches, students can expect to talk and think critically about intersecting structures of oppression including racism, homophobia, sexism, and classism.

 

Conference Agenda

  • 9:30 am:  Meet and Greet (coffee and pastry)
  • 10:00 am:  Welcome/ Agenda/Announcements
  • 10:15am:  Dr. Amanda Wray Featured Presentation, UNC Asheville
    “Storytelling as Advocacy Work: A Critical Dialogue Project”
  • 11:30 am:  Marsha Lee Baker, Western Carolina University
    “Advocacy in Public Policy about Guns in Schools”
  • 12:00 pm:  In-house Luncheon (room 906)            (Board Meeting)
  • 1:00 pm:  Wendy Sharer, Michelle Eble, and Tracy Morse, East Carolina University
    “Advocating for Local Change: Improving Writing and Writing Instruction”
  • 2:00 pm:   Jan Rieman, Tonya Wertz-Orbaugh, Debarati Dutta, and Beth Caruso, UNC Charlotte
    “The Advocacy Role that WPAs play in Preserving Intellectual Rigor”
  • 3:00 pm:  Closing remarks/Announcements

 

Parking

There is no charge for people that have a main campus hangtag but it is $5 each for cars without one. Folks who are not from UNCC can just park in the lot (but not use the permit) at 11th and Brevard.  Attendees will need to park in a numbered spot and pay $5 cash in the corresponding number at the pay box in the lot. Click here to view a parking map.

CFP: Meeting in the Middle (Proposals due February 8, 2013)

Carolinas WPA Meeting in the Middle

Friday, February 22, 2013

UNC Charlotte’s Center City Campus

Charlotte, NC

10:00am-4:30pm

 

Theme:  Advocacy in Composition Studies

 

Many writing courses are integrating advocacy issues that are important to students, teachers, and their local communities. For instance, some instructors create assignments that ask students to create or develop Facebook pages dedicated to a particular issue, or to create an “advocacy website” that has an impact on viewers or readers so to promote the action advocated. As program administrators and writing instructors, we may consider questions like:

  • Who decides or selects the focus for advocacy?
  • What happens if students select an advocacy approach that may be considered “bad” or unethical?
  • How should advocacy work be evaluated or assessed?
  • How do you coordinate your needs as a teacher, the needs of the students as evolving writers, and the needs of the “clients” with which you and your students work in a class that incorporates advocacy?

 

Request for Proposals

The Carolinas WPA encourages active participation at its conference.  To broaden our theme of advocacy, we are requesting brief proposals that consider the questions above, as well as proposals about activities/projects that can help us advocate for writing instruction and writing programs. In other words, we are looking for proposals that promote and publicize what we do as writing teachers and program directors.

 

If you would like to participate in this conference, please submit a proposal that addresses any area of writing and advocacy.  Please submit a 100-word abstract by Friday, February 8, 2013 to Anthony T. Atkins [atkinsa@uncw.edu].  Be sure to include names of presenters, institutions, and email addresses for participants. As always Carolinas WPA encourages graduate student participation.

 

Conference Outline

We aim for the conference to be interactive.  The morning and afternoon sessions will feature speakers. The afternoon session will also feature round table discussions about advocating college-level writing and the duties of writing program directors. A detailed conference outline is forthcoming and will be posted on the website before the conference begins.

 

As always there will be plenty of time to meet informally with colleagues.

 

 

Registration Fee

$25.00 includes lunch and “break” food.

To increase Carolinas WPA visibility:  Bring a Friend for Free, but you must register your friend when you register yourself.

 

Click Here to Register

 

 

Proposal Deadline—Friday, February 8, 2013

 

Registration Deadline—Friday, February 15, 2013

 

Elon University: 2 First-Year Writing Positions

#1

Elon University invites applications for a tenure track, assistant professor in the Department of English beginning mid-August 2013. Terminal degree in English required, preferably in composition/rhetoric or a related area; two years of teaching experience at the college level; demonstrated professional commitment to teaching first-year writing courses and a record of excellence in teaching. Teaching responsibilities will include a six course load focused primarily on first-year writing with the opportunity to teach other English courses and the expectation of teaching within Elon’s General Studies program.  Preference will be given to applicants with proven scholarship in writing studies.  Elon is a dynamic private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning. To learn more about Elon, please visit our website (http://www.elon.edu).  Review of applicants will begin October 22, and applications must be received by November 21 to be assured of consideration. Send letter of application, CV, one-page teaching philosophy, research interests, and names of references to Janet Warman, Search Chair, at  engttwriting@elon.edu and include your full name in the subject line.  Elon University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body and welcomes all applicants.

 

#2

Elon University invites applications for a lecturer track position in English composition and rhetoric beginning mid-August 2013.  Lecturers teach seven courses a year, participate in departmental and university service, and are permanent faculty members with a continuance process and opportunity for promotion to Senior Lecturer.  Master’s degree or higher in composition/rhetoric required; two years of teaching experience at the college level; demonstrated professional commitment to first-year writing courses, and a record of excellence in teaching.  Primary teaching, service and professional development interests should be in composition.  Teaching responsibilities will principally reside within the College Writing program, which includes Elon’s required first-year writing course and a co-requisite course for students who desire extra writing support during the first year, as well as the expectation of teaching within Elon’s General Studies program.  Elon is a dynamic, private, co-educational, comprehensive institution that is a national model for actively engaging faculty and students in teaching and learning.  To learn more about Elon, please visit the University web site at (http://www.elon.edu).  Review of applicants will begin October 22, 2012. Applications must be received by November 21 to be assured full consideration. Send letter of application, CV, and one-page teaching philosophy to the Search Committee at ENGLecturer@elon.edu , and include your full name in the subject line.  Elon University is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body and welcomes all applicants.

 

CarolinasWPA Fall Conference Schedule

Carolinas Writing Program Administrators 9th Annual Fall Conference

Writing Program Assessment: Tapping Institutional Opportunities

September 17-19, 2012

Wildacres, Little Switzerland, NC

 

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Monday, September 17

  • 4:00-6:00        Check-In, North Lodge Lobby (light snacks will be available in the Canteen)
  • 6:30                    Dinner
  • 7:30                    Welcome and Opening Session – Featured Speaker: Shelley Rodrigo – Writing on the Go: the What, Why, and How
  • 8:30                    Social / Networking in the Canteen

 

Tuesday, September 18

  • 8:00                       Breakfast
  • 9:00 – 9:15         Announcements / Charge for the day
  • 9:15 – 10:15       Session #1: Collaborations – Presenters:
    • Casie Fedukovich – Can I Safely Navigate a Cross-Department Initiative? (STEM)
    • Denise Paster – A Collaboration Between FYC and the Library
  • 10:30-11:30       Session # 2: Technologies – Presenters:
    • Susan Miller-Cochran and Dana Gierdowski – Designing a Flexible Classroom Space (IT)
    • Brent Simoneaux & Robin Snead – Multimodal Composing Across the Disciplines
  • 11:30-12:00     Question/Answer/Discussion
  • 12:15 – 1:15       Lunch
  • 1:45 – 2:45        Session #3: Program Goals – Presenters:
    • Laura Aull – Considering Directed-Self Placement (DSP)
    • Jean Coco – Hitch Your Wagon to a Star (Case study for CAC)
    • Collie Fulford- Priority Convergence in an Undergraduate-Faculty WPA Research Partnership
  • 3:00 – 4:30         Breakout sessions: Representing Carolinas WPAs at SAMLA
    • QEP cluster
    • Strategic planning and partnerships cluster
    • Current Issus in WPA Work
  •  4:30-6:00           Free time (hike/walk/rest) & Board Meeting (if needed)
  • 6:00 – 7:00         Dinner
  • 7:30 – 8:30         Featured speaker: Will Banks (with Kerri Flinchbaugh and Steph West-Puckett) – (Re)Framing Collaboration and Professionalization
  • 8:45                        Social in Canteen/Bonfire

 

Wednesday, September 19         

  • 8:00                    Breakfast
  • 9:00                    Wrap Up: Plans for MiM and other venues

CFP: Fifth Annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing

Building Bridges: Extending the Work of Composition Beyond the Classroom

The Fifth Annual North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing

February 15-16 2013, NC State University

http://go.ncsu.edu/ncwritingsymposium

 

As a field, composition has a rich history of actively engaging with pedagogy. Learning and the work of the classroom are never far from writing instructors’ thoughts, conversations, and research. Institutions of learning have recently had to respond to increasing fiscal constraints and a variety of pressures for reform and restructuring, however, and working conditions for writing instructors have continued to either remain stagnant or deteriorate. In such an academic climate, writing teachers have had many reminders that the world outside our classroom walls and the perceptions of the work going on within them matter a great deal. While it may at times be convenient to be seen as grammarians or academic discourse “coaches” in service of other courses, this misperception can be dangerously confining and reductive for writing teachers, programs, and studies, as our field has much more to offer than the drills and basic formulae these roles imply. And although Louise Wetherbee Phelps and John M. Ackerman’s 2010 CCC report on The Visibility Project is encouraging, the story told through the data collected by The Adjunct Project is much less so. For our fifth symposium, the North Carolina Symposium on Teaching Writing would like to respond to calls like Doug Hesse’s, at last year’s symposium, for writing teachers to reach beyond their physical and virtual classrooms to participate in the community of their departments, institutions, and discipline, by exploring how writing teachers build bridges—bridges across classrooms, pedagogies, disciplines, institutions, levels, spheres, genres, media, technologies, modes, languages, cultures, time, etc. Proposals for papers and panels about partnership, collaboration, cross-fertilization, and synergy, as well as about dialogue, debate, translation, framing, and compromise are all welcome.

 

Related topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Collaborating with colleagues/students/counterparts/administrators/others;
  • Participating in administration and governance;
  • Communicating between departments, colleges, institutions;
  • Building bridges between faculty/instructors/administration;
  • Advocating for programs/students/faculty;
  • Fostering cross-institutional connections;
  • Building K-16 connections;
  • Connecting through service learning and extension;
  • Communicating the work of composition to external stakeholders;
  • Partnering the academic with professional, public with private;
  • Translating the work of composition to the public sphere;
  • Writing across/through/between disciplines;
  • Developing vertical writing curricula;
  • Engaging with alternative pedagogies/approaches/perspectives;
  • Building bridges through/with technology;
  • Transposing and engaging with alternative genres, modes, and media;
  • Connecting within/without the classroom;
  • Developing bridges between classrooms;
  • Building international, trans-lingual, and trans-cultural bridges;
  • Linking texts, pedagogies, problems, moments.

 

The keynote for this year’s symposium will be Tim Peeples, Professor of English and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs at Elon University. While at Elon, Peeples has built many bridges on campus, playing a central role in the creation and administration of numerous programs, centers, and initiatives across campus, including Writing Across the Curriculum, the program in Professional Writing and Rhetoric, the Writing Center, the university’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and Elon University’s School of Law. A leader in faculty governance and development, Peeples has also been a key figure in increasing the number of tenure-track faculty at Elon. Before coming to Elon, Peeples served in several administrative roles and taught a range of composition and professional writing courses at Northern Arizona, Purdue University, and West Georgia College. He also developed a summer writing program for first-generation Native American engineering students. Read more about Peeples at: http://www.elon.edu/directories/profile/?user=peeples

 

Specific Guidelines for Submission: Individual paper proposals should be 200-300 words in length. Panel submissions should not total more than 1000 words. Panels will be 75 minutes in length, including Q&A. All sessions will be held in rooms with Internet access and projection capabilities. Please indicate any other technology requirements. We encourage participation from all faculty ranks, and we particularly encourage contingent faculty, K-12 faculty, TYC faculty, and graduate student participation.

 

The deadline for proposals is Friday, October 19th.

 

Submit proposals as a Microsoft Word compatible attachment (.doc or .docx) or PDF to: writingsymposium@ncsu.edu. PLEASE INCLUDE ALL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION—TITLE, NAME(S), AFFILIATION(S), AND EMAIL ADDRESS(ES)—IN THE EMAIL. THE ONLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN THE PROPOSAL DOCUMENT ITSELF SHOULD BE THE TITLE.