Summary: The Department of English and Theatre at Eastern Kentucky University seeks a creative writer for a nine month tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor. The normal teaching load is twelve hours per semester. The successful candidate will teach courses in creative writing, as well as in freshman composition and sophomore literature, and will be involved in our low residency MFA.  

Applicants should be comfortable joining a large and diverse faculty at an institution where teaching is emphasized and everyone is expected to teach lower-division/General education courses.  

Eastern Kentucky University is an EEO/AA institution that values diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body. In keeping with this commitment, the University welcomes applications from diverse candidates and candidates who support diversity.

For more information, please visit our Equal Opportunity Office.  

Qualifications: A terminal degree (MFA or PhD) from a regionally (SACS, North Central, etc.) accredited or internationally recognized institution and a minimum of 18 graduate credit hours in the discipline are required. Publication of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction is highly desirable.  

Application: Materials should be submitted on-line and should include a cover letter, curriculum vita, and three letters of reference. Supplemental materials such as publications can be mailed to Dr. James Keller, Chair of Search Committee, Dept. of English and Theatre, Case Annex 467, Eastern Kentucky University, 521 Lancaster Ave., Richmond, KY 40475.

Review of applications will begin Jan. 15, 2008.