Michigan State University
Location
East Lansing, MI | United States
Job description
English Education Coordinator- Associate Professor
The Department of English in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University (MSU) is seeking an English Education faculty member at the rank of tenured Associate Professor who will also serve as coordinator of the English education program concentration. This is a full-time, academic year (9 month) appointment, beginning August 16, 2024. English education at MSU prepares preservice secondary English teachers through coursework and experiential learning that focuses on theoretical and practical implications of critical issues surrounding language(s), literacies, digital technologies, literatures, discourses of adolescent development, and writing.
The coordinator will work with a committed team of English education faculty in the Department of English and Department of Teacher Education in the College of Education to coordinate and sustain a program that is committed to advancing equity and justice through anti-oppressive and liberatory approaches to teaching English language arts in a wide range of contexts (e.g., urban, rural, suburban) and through community-based and school-based initiatives. The program aspires toward an ethic of solidarity, reciprocity, and humility.
The successful applicant will have a tenure home in the Department of English, and will report to the department Chairperson. With a dynamic range of expanding programs including literary studies, creative writing, film studies, popular culture, and English education, the department is an integral part of the College of Arts and Letters and Michigan State University’s global engagement. The Department is home to an award-winning National Council of Teachers of English MSU Student Affiliate chapter , the undergraduate literary journal Red Cedar Review, the MSU Film Collective, and many other exciting initiatives.
Major Responsibilities
The successful candidate will work collaboratively with diverse English education faculty situated across multiple units. This candidate will integrate programmatic commitments – to a) advancement of equity and justice through anti-oppressive and liberatory teaching approaches in diverse contexts; b) community-based and school-based learning; and c) aspirational ethic of solidarity, reciprocity, and humility – into the following responsibilities:
We especially seek applicants who possess expertise and conduct research in one or more of the following areas, with specific relevance to English education: a) critical and/or global language perspectives and pedagogies; b) culturally responsive and sustaining English language arts curriculum, instruction, and/or English teacher development, c) cultural assets approaches to writing pedagogies (including creative writing); and d) Indigenous adolescent literacies, literatures, and/or pedagogies.
The English Education coordinator position comes with a course release. Their teaching load will return to the standard 2-2 load for a tenure system faculty member, once the faculty member has stepped down from that position. Within this 9-month academic year appointment, the successful candidate will be responsible for teaching three courses annually in the English education program and, when needed, a different undergraduate or graduate course in the Department of English will take the place of one or two of these three.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
Doctorate
Applicants must:
Preferred qualifications include:
Review of applications will begin January 8 th . 2024 and will continue until the position is filled. Applications must be submitted electronically to the Michigan State University Human Resources website . Posting number 917732. For more information, contact Professor Mary Juzwik, Chair of the English Education Search Committee, Departments of English and Teacher Education, [email protected] .
Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation.
01/08/2024
The College of Arts & Letters recognizes that only an academic and organizational culture, which actively seeks out and strengthens diverse voices and perspectives among its members results in true excellence. The College of Arts & Letters is particularly interested in candidates of all backgrounds who are committed to the principle that intellectual leadership is achieved through open access and pro-active inclusion.
Michigan State University has been advancing the common good with uncommon will for more than 160 years. One of the top research universities in the world, MSU pushes the boundaries of discovery and forges enduring partnerships to solve the most pressing global challenges while providing life-changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree-granting colleges.
About Michigan State University
Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.
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