A comprehensive writing center and an independent academic unit in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), the Sweetland Center for Writing is guided by commitments to equity, anti-racism, and linguistic justice in its support of student writing at all levels and in all forms and modes. Please visit the Sweetland Center for Writing website for more information about the programs and services offered, and to read our DEI statement.
Sweetland seeks to hire a LEO Lecturer III with expertise in public-facing writing and teaching as social justice practices, and experience in multimodal composition and/or digital rhetoric. We are looking for a candidate who can make novel contributions to the Center's robust multimodal and multimedia curricula and programs.
Teaching load is 3/3 per academic year. Typically, one class each term consists of 10 hours per week consulting in Sweetland's Writing Workshop.
Core courses for this position will include: Writing 220: Introduction to the Minor in Writing, Writing 420: Minor in Writing Capstone, and Writing Workshop (10 hr/week). Additional courses may include: Writing 160: Multimodal Writing (fulfills the First-Year Writing Requirement) and/or Writing 200 and Writing 201: Writing in Digital and Social Media (cross-listed with U-M's Digital Studies minor).
Administrative duties for this position include serving on two of Sweetland's standing committees, curricular development and administration for the Minor in Writing, advising Minor in Writing students, and curricular development for Writing 200/201 courses. Faculty in the Minor in Writing also regularly collaborate on special projects with Minor in Writing students.
About this Position
Sweetland's Minor in Writing (MiW) serves undergraduates who seek to develop as multimodal writers with a robust research background to produce sustained, self-directed multimodal writing projects within and beyond academic disciplinary writing that address and are shaped by community perspectives. Minors represent multiple departments, schools, and colleges across the university and encompass diverse backgrounds, interests, and talents to form a vibrant cohort of peers.
Sweetland is committed to providing mentorship and professional development opportunities for faculty. Sweetland/MiW faculty offer mentorship for MiW students and other faculty within and beyond the unit; create opportunities for composition experimentation, such as in the spirit of maker spaces; lead workshops on teaching and writing for faculty and graduate students across campus; and facilitate community engagements centered on writing. Candidates are invited to speak about their experiences with these kinds of collaborative practices.
This position also offers the opportunity for a range of cross-campus collaborations in media/digital studies and digital rhetoric. Sweetland hosts the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, a community webspace and book series with the University of Michigan Press; several Sweetland faculty have dry appointments in U-M's Digital Studies Institute (DSI) and Sweetland courses are cross-listed in the DSI minor in Digital Studies; and the U-M campus is home to excellent resources for multimodal and multimedia designing, making, and playing, including the Shapiro Design Lab, the Digital Media Commons, and the Computer and Video Game Archive.