Assistant/Associate Professor - AY - English

Assistant/Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor

College of Arts & Humanities

Position Description

The Department of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) invites applications for a Tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor (Academic Year) with the appointment starting in Fall 2020.

At CSUDH, we celebrate and respect diversity in all forms that include every race, religion, gender, ethnicity, veterans, people with varied abilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. CSUDH is seeking applications from candidates who can demonstrate experience in teaching and working with individuals from diverse backgrounds and contribute to the University”s mission, vision, and core values. https://www.csudh.edu/president/strategic-planning/mission-vision-and-core-values/

Department of English

The Department of English offers a varied and soundly based program that unifies the study of composition, language, and literature. Within the major, students may concentrate their program of study in literature, language and linguistics, or English education. Linguistics courses at California State University, Dominguez Hills are taught by a dynamic group of faculty members who bring a diverse range of progessional interests, strengths, and experiences to the Department of English. The department serves a strongly multicultural and multilingual undergraduate student body, primarily from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. In addition, the English Graduate Program currently includes certificates in Composition and Rhetoric and TESL.

For more information see: http://www4.csudh.edu/english/index

The Position

The Caifornia State University Dominguez Hills Department of English is hiring an Assistant/Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor of English with a specialty in Applied Linguistics. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in both our B.A. program in Language and Linguistics and ouar M.A. program in Teaching English as a Second Language. She/he will be expected to maintain an active research agenda and serve on department, college, and/or university committees. This includes the ongoing evaluation and improvement of our programs. The normal teaching load is 4-4, with a reduced 3-3 load for the first two years and additional opportunities for reduced teaching load in future years.

Responsibilities

In addition to having a Ph.D. in Applied Lingusitics or Linguistics, the idea candidate will offer innovative approaches to teaching language pedagogy and theory. The candidate will have demonstrated ability to teach second language pedagogy, second language acquisition, and ESL composition. These areas of expertise will enhance the English Department”s efforts to improve student success not only within our own majors but within other majors that we support, such as Liberal Studies. Given our multicultural student population, status as a Hispanic-sering institution, and location in the culturally diverse Los Angeles metropolitan area, we are especially interested in candidates whose research emphasizes global or multilingual/translingual perspectives and who can contribute to the programs” growth in these areas. The college and the English Department aim to increase diversity and inclusion of the campus community. Candidates who can contribute to this goal are encouraged to apply and identify their strengths and experiences in this area.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Applicants must have experience in working with students from diverse age, socioeconomic, cultural, and academic backgrounds.

• ABD in Applied Linguistics or Linguistics, completed by the time of appointment.

• A promising research agenda likely to lead to publications in one or more of the following areas: second language pedagogy, second language acquisition, ESL composition, multilingualism, sociolinguistics.
  
  Preferred /Desired Qualifications
  

• Ph.D. in Linguistics or Applied Linguistics.
• Demonstrated record of excellent teaching in areas of academic preparation for a minimum of two years.
• Professional experience that demonstrates ability to work with and teach non-traditional students.
• Demonstrated record of administrative service, ideally involving either building partnerships with other academic programs or contributing toward managing a composition program.
• A demonstrated record of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, along with the ability to teach advanced courses: ESL/EFL reading, World Englishes, literacy studies, discourse analysis, phonology, syntax.

Employment Requirement - Background Check

Satisfactory completion of a background check (including a criminal records check) is required for employment. CSU will make a conditional offer of employment, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the continued employment of a current CSU employee who was conditionally offered the position.

How to Apply

The position is open until filled. Review of applications will begin in November, 2019. For full consideration, please submit your completed application no later than November 1, 2019.

Register your online application at New & Returning Applicants at https://www.csudh.edu/hr/job-opportunities/index and submit the following in a single pdf file:

• Current Curriculum Vitae with contact information
• Cover letter
• List of 3 references with contact information
• Unofficial transcripts (an official transcript will be required for the finalist)

• A Statement on Teaching

• A Statement on Research

• Sample Publications or Evidence of Creative/Scholarly Activity
• Teaching Evaluations (if available)

For finalist with International transcripts, a United States Equivalency certification will be required.

A United States (US) Equivalency certification is required for earned/awarded/conferred foreign terminal degrees, which is from a foreign Academic Institution for foreign studies. The US Equivalency certification is used to validate foreign studies from an academic credential evaluation agency and is evaluated on foreign studies and deemed to be equivalent to degrees from the United States. The certification must translate the information in English, and confirm that your highest terminal degree is US Equivalent to a US terminal degree (i.e., Bachelor”s, Master”s, Doctorate”s, Doctor”s of Philosophy). The certification can be emailed to ghardy@csudh.edu or mailed directly to the office of Faculty Affairs and Development, 1000 East Victoria Street, WH-368, Carson, CA 90747.