Part-Time Instructor in Composition (English Department) - Military veterans preferred

The Composition Program at the University of Pittsburgh welcomes applications for part-time, non-tenure stream teaching positions for Fall 2025. Position appointments may be renewable based on need, funding, and performance.

Our program has long cultivated interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to the field of composition. We believe in asking students to do real intellectual work and to engage with difficulty. Our program in Public and Professional Writing extends those commitments across the university and to workplaces, as well as to the broader public sphere. We value flexible teachers who can create engaging and responsible courses.

Responsibilities: We are seeking outstanding faculty members who can teach in our first-year Composition courses, ESL Composition, or our courses for students in the Public and Professional Writing (PPW) major and certificate program. PPW courses include legal writing, technical writing, PR writing, grant writing, social media, and digital composition. We may also place teachers in the Writing Center (where tutoring graduate and undergraduate students for 10 hours/week, plus attending meetings and engaging in professional development, is the equivalent of a course). Or we may place teachers in our First-Year Engineering Writing Program, in which Composition teachers work with students in their first-year Engineering class to support their professional writing. (This teaching experience requires that teachers respond in writing to students’ work and may involve going into the Engineering classroom to teach writing. Assignments and rubrics are created by the team.) To see our list of Public and Professional Writing courses, visit https://www.composition.pitt.edu/undergraduate/public-professional-writing/ppw-major

MA or higher degree required; terminal degree (MFA, PhD, etc.) preferred. Preferred qualifications include a record of superior academic or professional performance; the ability to develop engaging courses that meet established learning goals; excellent communication skills, both oral and written; and a demonstrated ability to interact efficiently with diverse people in a multidisciplinary environment.

Required Documents::

• Your current C.V.
• A cover letter.

• A one-to-two-page teaching statement that explains your approach to teaching composition.

Optional Documents:

• A teaching portfolio that includes sample syllabi for two courses and at least two assignments, class activities, workshop practices, or course units that demonstrate the integration of the key elements described in the advertisement.
• Student surveys for two classes, at least one of which should coincide with sample syllabi.

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