Department: Musicology, School of Music and Dance
FTE: 0.40
Terms: Spring
Academic Year: 2025
Duties:
Each week, lead three lab sections of “Writing Musically,” an innovative new course with funding from the Williams Council. The course has a total enrollment of 25 undergraduates, and each lab contains 8-9 students. Each lab is 50 minutes long, for a workload of 3 hours/week of instruction. Labs consist of a writing workshop with guided peer critique exercises. Further duties include attending class sessions for 3 hours/week, meeting with students, meeting with the instructor, giving written feedback to students, and grading.
As this is an experimental new course, the schedule is still being determined. Labs will most likely take place on Thursday afternoons or Fridays. If GE applicants are concerned about scheduling, please include scheduling restrictions in an addendum to the cover letter.
Preferred Qualifications:
This innovative, interdisciplinary, and experimental course uses musical concepts to teach writing. The course combines pedagogies from music listening, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and journalistic writing. As such, this position is best suited for an MA or PhD candidate in a humanistic or journalistic field that is writing-intensive (Comparative Literature, Global Languages, English, Creative Writing, Journalism, and so on), who is curious about music. Musical training is not necessary for this role, but it may be valuable. Strong writing skills in English are absolutely required for this role.
Application Procedure:
Together with your application, please submit:
1) A cover letter detailing your existing teaching experience. Emphasize skills that you feel are applicable to this position.
2) A writing sample that represents your best writing. Scholarly, creative, and journalistic writing are all acceptable.
Interviews will be conducted at the end of January and a hiring decision will be made in early February.
Application Email: alfine@uoregon.edu
Deadline Date: Tuesday, 01-14-25
Open Until Filled: Yes
Open Until Filled, Review Begins On: Wednesday, 01-15-25
Contact Information:
Abigail Fine
1225 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403