Open Rank Professor in Media Law and Journalism Ethics

Northwestern University in Qatar invites applications from highly qualified candidates for a full-time open rank faculty appointment in Writing Studies, to be appointed in the Liberal Arts Program. We seek candidates with an active research agenda that focuses on Writing Studies in the Global South, with preference given to scholars who focus on Africa, the Arab world, or South Asia, whose work is comparative or transnational, whose work includes such areas as rhetoric and composition, second language writing, or creative writing, and who include ethics, gender, race, and/or coloniality in their analysis. We expect successful candidates to have a Ph.D. by the time of appointment in rhetoric and composition, writing studies, or creative writing and to have linguistic competence and field experience in their research area.