Assistant Teaching Professor in English-Composition and Rhetoric

The Department of English at Santa Clara University (SCU), a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a full-time, renewable, non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor. The Department seeks a faculty member who will teach lower and upper division writing courses, primarily Critical Thinking and Writing (Santa Clara’s 2-quarter first year writing sequence). Past research experience related to writing studies and/or scholarship of teaching and learning preferred. The appointment start date is September 1, 2025.

The position duties include teaching/advising (70%), service (15%), and professional activity (15%). The expected teaching load is 7 undergraduate courses over three academic quarters (Fall, Winter, and Spring). This faculty member will be part of Santa Clara’s non-tenure track faculty union, Service Employees International Union Local 1021. The successful candidate will have a mentor appointed to assist them as they begin at SCU. Assistant Teaching Professors are appointed for a term of three years. Reappointment to subsequent terms of three years depends upon the availability of funds, persistent programmatic need, and superior teaching, service, and professional activity. Promotion to Associate Teaching Professor and then to Teaching Professor is possible under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Located in the heart of northern California’s Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is a Catholic, Jesuit University committed to promoting social justice in a liberal arts educational setting and educating students who will build a more humane, just, and sustainable world.

As with most of the Departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the English Department is strictly an undergraduate program. Candidates with experience working with underrepresented groups and students from diverse backgrounds, and candidates with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion are preferred.