The Communication Studies Department at Gonzaga University in Spokane WA, invites applications for a one-year, full-time, non-tenure-track lecturer position beginning Fall 2024. 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 animated by the concepts of social justice, civic engagement, 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 applicants who are invested in creative, reflective pedagogy and who have experience teaching about communication as symbolic action from a rhetorical, media, and/or cultural studies perspective. This position involves teaching multiple sections of the first-year, Core Curriculum course, COMM 100: Communication and Speech, which is a requirement for all Gonzaga students. The course emphasizes communication as symbolic action and foregrounds civic engagement. This colleague may also be asked to teach one or more of our department’s theoretical foundation courses: Understanding Meaning-Making, Understanding Power in Culture, and Understanding Identity. The teaching load for the lecturer position is an equivalent of 24 credits per year (12 credits per semester).
Additionally, while University service is not a requirement or an expectation for this position, all members of the department are invited and welcome to 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 and to increasing the diversity of the campus community. Gonzaga University is a Jesuit, Catholic, humanistic institution, and is therefore interested in candidates who will contribute to its distinctive mission of educating students “for lives of leadership and service for the common good.” The University is committed to fostering “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.” Gonzaga’s campus sits adjacent to downtown Spokane, WA, along the Spokane River in the Inland Northwest’s most metropolitan region. We exist on the traditional homelands of the Spokane people, one of the Interior Salish speaking tribes of the region. Spokane is Washington’s second largest city and boasts a vibrant restaurant, entertainment, and arts community; it is also home to a diverse array of neighborhoods and popular outdoor recreational areas.”
Successful applicants will have read the mission statement and engaged with it in their application materials. In alignment with Gonzaga University’s mission, we expect applicants to demonstrate commitment to issues of social justice, diversity, global engagement, and care for/solidarity with vulnerable and marginalized communities. We welcome applicants who can contribute to the departmental ethos and campus climate of inclusivity. Applicants are encouraged to describe their experiences with diverse populations and/or underrepresented and minoritized students. |