Colleagues, We're hiring at IIT this year; please consider applying and/or distributing the ad below to interested candidates. If you have any questions about this position, IIT, or life in Chicago, please contact me off list. Best, Karl -- Dr. Karl Stolley http://karlstolley.com Associate Professor of Digital Writing and Rhetoric & Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Humanities Illinois Institute of Technology ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Assistant Professor of Communication - Starting Fall 2014 The Department of Humanities seeks a tenure-track assistant professor of communication. Research and teaching areas of particular interest include visual communication, document and interface design, digital culture, and/or digital writing; strong applications from any related area (e.g., information, media studies, literature of science and technology) will be considered. Successful applicants will have completed a PhD in communications, information studies, rhetoric, literature, or a related field by August 2014 and demonstrate evidence of potential for collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Teaching responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate teaching; contributing to undergraduate curriculum development and assessment, including a new major in Digital Humanities and a redesigned Communication major. Additional responsibilities include helping to strengthen the Graduate Program in Technology and Humanities, which offers MS degrees in Technical Communication and Information Design and Information Architecture and a PhD in Technical Communication. Applicants should submit a single PDF containing (1) letter of interest, (2) C.V., and (3) writing sample; optionally, applicants may also send an example of visual design work (PDF or web-available URL preferred) to 2013.hum.search@gmail.com All applicants should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to 2013.hum.search@gmail.com as PDFs directly from the recommender or through a confidential dossier service. IIT is a private, PhD-granting research university in the global city of Chicago. The Humanities Department is part of the new Lewis College of Human Sciences and is located on the University’s 120-acre Main Campus just south of downtown. IIT pairs the educational and cultural experiences of America's third-largest city with the small feel of an undergraduate population of just over 2300 and total student population of just over 7400. Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. Illinois Institute of Technology is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. For more information about the Humanities Department, including graduate and undergraduate degree programs, see: http://www.iit.edu/human-sciences/hum/, or contact Professor Karl Stolley, Chair, Search Committee by email at 2013.hum.search@gmail.com.