The Department of English at the College of Charleston welcomes applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position with a start date of August 16, 2025. A Ph.D. in Composition Studies or a Ph.D. or M.F.A. in a related discipline with training in rhetoric, composition, and first-year writing is required. The teaching assignment is 12 credit hours of first-year writing instruction per semester (three four-credit hour courses) and includes opportunities to teach composition in the College of Charleston’s Honors College and First-Year Experience Program.

The College of Charleston is located in historic downtown Charleston in a coastal metropolitan area of 800,000. The College is a public liberal arts and sciences institution with a student body of approximately 1,100 graduate students, 10,000 undergraduate students, 20% of whom identify as minority, and 140 international students from 34 different countries. Additional information about the institution, the student body, and the surrounding area is available at https://charleston.edu/.

Please submit a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching philosophy, and current unofficial transcript tohttps://jobs.cofc.edu/postings/16547 by Thursday, May 15, 2025. Questions about applying can be directed to Department Chair Anton Vander Zee (vanderzeeal@cofc.edu).

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