Assistant Professor, Creative Writing and English

**Position Title / Rank**:**Assistant Professor, Creative Writing and English**:
**Department: School of Theatre, English and Creative Writing (SOTEC)**:
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**Position Description**:
Both Creative Writing and English are robust programs in the College of Arts with solid projections for continued growth and success. Creative Writing courses and English courses are highly invested in experiential learning and socially engaged learning, offering practical and creative knowledge-building to foster successful transition from the academic environment to the professional world. The School of Theatre, English and Creative Writing is a hub for disciplinary and interdisciplinary study and research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and SOTEC faculty often teach and research across our various disciplines. Our programs are also linked to various inter and intra-disciplinary programs and practices, including Culture and Technology Studies; Black Canadian Studies; and Sexualities, Genders and Social Change. SOTEC is home to creative practice, research-creation, and advanced research and attracts a steady stream of graduate students.

The School of Theatre, English and Creative Writing (SOTEC) commits to centering equity and inclusion in our research, teaching, and community engagement. These efforts serve our mission as educators and work toward social justice. We strive to respect and promote diversity, inclusion, equity, and decoloniality by creating an environment that embodies these values in our recruitment, scholarship, research, education, and service. We support the College of Arts’ mission to unleash compassion, creativity, and critical engagement with the world through transformative education.

The University of Guelph resides on the traditional lands and territory of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee and Huron Wendat. These lands are now home to a rich diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people. We offer our respect and gratitude to our Indigenous neighbours and affirm our responsibility to realize our commitments to reconciliation through ongoing action. We are guided in this work by Bi-Naagward | It Comes into View, the Indigenous Initiatives Strategy.

The University of Guelph is the third largest employer in Guelph, a city of over 144,000 people, located about an hour drive west of Toronto, Ontario. University of Guelph is a top-ranked comprehensive university in Canada with an enrolment of more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students across more than 40 academic units. The University is known for its commitment to student learning, innovative research, and collaboration with world-class partners. It is a unique place, with transformative research and teaching and a distinctive campus culture. People who learn and work here are shaped and inspired by a shared purpose: To Improve Life. Reflecting that shared purpose in every experience connected to our university positions us to create positive change, here and around the world. Our University community shares a profound sense of social responsibility, a drive for international development, and an obligation to address global issues.

**Application Process**
- A cover letter;
- A curriculum vitae;
- A statement about inclusionary practices relevant to teaching and research;
- Names and complete contact information for three references.

**Date Posted**: 02/17/2025

This position is represented by the University of Guelph Faculty Association (UGFA).

The University of Guelph commits to fostering inclusive excellence through promoting Indigenization, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Inclusion is a core pillar of Our Time, our strategic plan, which pledges to “transform our human resources, governance and student services and practices across the University to enable us to recruit a diverse student, faculty and staff body and support them in achieving their personal, professional and scholarly goals.” The University commits to creating and maintaining “equitable work environments that empower us in our pursuit of student, faculty and staff success, research excellence, innovation and impact.”