[Commlist] Job announcement: Tenure Track position at Gonzaga University (USA)

*Job announcement: Communication Studies - Assistant Professor (tenure 
track)*
Gonzaga University

Location: Spokane, Washington (USA)
Advertised until: 2021-10-13

To apply, please visit our website at www.gonzaga.edu/jobs__

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*_Job Purpose:_*

The Communication Studies Department at Gonzaga University in Spokane, 
WA, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position 
beginning fall 2022. We wish to welcome humanities-based 
teacher-scholars with a commitment to inclusive, equity-minded teaching 
to join a department with an innovative curriculum grounded in rhetoric, 
media, and cultural studies and to collaborate with colleagues animated 
by concerns of social justice, civic engagement, media representation, 
and systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

We look forward to collaborating with a colleague who possesses strong 
pedagogical abilities, with particular sensitivity to inclusive, 
equity-minded teaching practices; who can address questions of 
diversity, equity, and social justice broadly considered; who can 
effectively teach the impacts and consequences of communication on 
society, media, culture, and identity; and who approaches communication 
as a constitutive material, social, cultural, and political endeavor.

We seek a candidate who is invested in creative, reflective pedagogy and 
who has experience teaching about communication as symbolic action from 
a rhetorical, media, and/or cultural studies perspective. Our curriculum 
is centered around three theoretical pillars: communication and 
meaning-making, communication’s relationship to systems of power, 
privilege, and oppression; and intersectionality and the performance of 
identity. This colleague will contribute to our introductory theory and 
methodology courses in addition to teaching our upper-level course 
offerings for majors and minors (see course and curriculum on department 
website). In addition, all members of our department share in the 
responsibility of teaching the first-year, Core Curriculum course, COMM 
100: Communication and Speech. This course emphasizes communication as 
symbolic action and foregrounds civic engagement—a theme that continues 
throughout all our courses. The teaching load for the tenure-track 
position is 18 credits per year (9 credits per semester).

We envision applicants whose teaching and scholarship explore 
intersections of rhetoric, media, and cultural studieswith one or more 
of the following areas, which form the foundations of our curriculum:

-Meaning, representation, and media

-Communication, power, and culture

-Intersections of race / ethnicity / gender / sexuality / ability / 
religion / citizenship

-Activism, organizing, civic engagement, and social movements

-Technology and digital cultures

Applicants should be comfortable working in a liberal arts setting that 
fosters faculty collaboration and student engagement both inside and 
outside the classroom. Thus, we hope to find a colleague with potential 
for interdisciplinary collaboration with departments and programs in the 
College of Arts and Sciences such as Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; 
Native American Studies; Environmental Studies and the Center for 
Climate, Society, and the Environment; Women’s and Gender Studies; 
International Studies; and Film Studies.

Additionally, all members of the department contribute to and 
participate in peer review of teaching activities, department 
committees, and special projects. Gonzaga University features an 
outstanding Center for Teaching and Advising that sponsors regular 
faculty development and education opportunities.

The Communication Studies Department is committed to inclusive 
excellence, to increasing the diversity of the campus community, and to 
supporting traditionally underrepresented students in higher education, 
especially at a predominantly white institution. In alignment with 
Gonzaga University’s mission, we expect applicants to provide evidence 
of direct experience and expertise in issues related to social justice, 
diversity, global engagement, and care for/solidarity with vulnerable 
and marginalized communities. Candidates who have demonstrated 
experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students, 
and who can contribute to the departmental ethos and campus climate of 
inclusivity are encouraged to identify specific experiences in these 
areas. Candidates who have demonstrated expertise in issues applicable 
to populations with diverse backgrounds and experiences, and direct 
experience working with underrepresented and marginalized students 
through teaching, research, mentoring, or administration are preferred.

*_Required Qualifications:_*

-Ph.D. in Communication with preferred backgrounds in rhetoric, media, 
and/or cultural studies. ABDs considered with the expectation degree in 
hand by August 1, 2022.

-Evidence of effective and reflective college-level teaching

-Evidence of inclusive, equity-minded teaching practices

-Evidence of an active research program (particularly at the 
intersections of rhetoric, media, and culture studies and the 
relationship to power, social identity, and social/environmental justice)

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*_Preferred Qualifications_**:*

-Ability to communicate disciplinary ways of thinking within a liberal 
arts curriculum

-Collaborative approach to teaching and institutional service

-Demonstrated experience or strategies for, mentoring and advising 
traditionally underrepresented identity groups

Gonzaga University is an internationally prominent university with a 
faculty dedicated both to innovative teaching and ongoing teaching 
development and to socially transformative and justice-oriented 
research. We have a branch campus in Florence, Italy, as well as a 
robust study abroad program.

*_Job Duties:_*

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The teaching responsibilities for the tenure-track position include an 
18-credit annual course load. All tenure-track faculty share 
responsibility for teaching the following:

-COMM 100: Communication and Speech, our first-year, core curriculum 
course. This course emphasizes communication as symbolic action and 
foregrounds civic engagement – a theme that continues throughout all our 
courses.

-Our introductory theory courses (media, rhetorical, and cultural 
studies theories related to meaning-making, identity, and power)

-Our introductory methodology courses (textual analysis and ethnographic 
methods)

-Our upper-level course offerings for majors and minors that deepen 
themes from our introductory courses.

All tenure track faculty are expected to establish and maintain an 
active and well-defined research agenda.

In addition, all members of the department contribute to and participate 
in student advising, reflective and effective teaching that includes 
equity and diversity-minded teaching practices, department assessment 
and evaluation, academic citizenship, program development, and recruiting.

*_Application Procedure:_*

To apply, please visit our website at www.gonzaga.edu/jobs. Applicants 
must complete an online application and submit the materials listed 
below. All application materials should address the candidate’s 
resonance with Gonzaga’s mission and values (see: 
https://www.gonzaga.edu/about/our-mission-jesuit-values) as well as the 
College’s investment in diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.

(1) a cover letter,

(2) a curriculum vitae,

(3) Statement of teaching philosophy (2-page max) that includes 
reflection on diversity, equity, and inclusion in relation to: a) your 
role and methods as a teacher, b) your goals for student learning and 
your approach to assessing that learning, and c) your ongoing growth as 
a teacher.

(4) Diversity statement (2-page max) that addresses the candidates 
experience contributing to the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion 
including how your work and life experiences will contribute to 
Gonzaga’s mission to “foster a mature commitment to dignity of the human 
person, social justice, diversity, intercultural competence, global 
engagement, solidarity with the poor and vulnerable, and care for the 
planet.”

(5) Copies of unofficial graduate school transcripts, and

(6) Names and contact information for three (3) professional references 
(letters will be requested when finalists are selected).

Please direct questions about this position to Melissa Click, 
Communication Studies, (click /at/ gonzaga.edu). Position closes on October 11, 
2021, midnight, Pacific Time. For assistance with your online 
application, please call the Human Resources department at 509-313-5996.
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