Penn welcomes applications from qualified Ph.D.s with experience and interest in teaching writing seminars. We also welcome applications from writers with a substantial publications background and teaching experience.

Please submit the following:

1) A letter of interest broadly outlining your qualifications and interest in teaching and participating in the Critical Writing Program at Penn.

2) Your current CV.

3) A sample/proposed syllabus for a discipline-based seminar in the Critical Writing Program.

4) A writing sample (preferably scholarship).

5) If you have not taught at Penn before, but have taught elsewhere, evidence of your accomplishments as a teacher (syllabi, teaching evaluations, teaching awards, references).

6) If you have not taught at Penn before, three references (telephone, address, and email if possible).

Please mail or email (as a Word document) this information to:

Dr. Valerie Ross, Director
The Critical Writing Program
University of Pennsylvania
3808 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Email: critwrit@writing.upenn.edu

For more information about The Critical Writing Program, visit our home page: www.writing.upenn.edu/critical