Assistant Professor: Creative Writing and Literature | Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks an active writer and experienced teacher for the position of assistant professor of creative writing and literature. We seek a writer who may specialize in a certain writing genre, but can also teach writing and literature courses in a wide range of genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, scriptwriting, journalism, playwriting, composition, blogging. Given our students’ strong interests in questions of power and identity, structural inequalities and violence, and environmental justice, the foci of candidates’ scholarship and creative work should engage in the intersections of poetics and politics, or of words and the world. Particular emphases may be Black/Africana studies, decolonial/postcolonial literatures, feminism and writing, or Native modes of writing and thinking, among many possibilities. An ideal candidate will be able to teach courses that develop the creative writing skills and personal voices of students, as well as to help students examine the literary, theoretical, historical, political, and cultural contexts within which writing emerges.