Overview

The Evergreen State College seeks a full-time faculty colleague to teach creative writing in a wide range of interdisciplinary programs at the undergraduate level. The successful candidate must be professionally trained and published in fiction and at least one of the following genres: screenwriting, creative nonfiction, or graphic novel.  Candidates must have experience teaching fiction and an additional writing genre at the college level, must have publications in fiction and in one other genre (in the case of screenwriting, at least one produced script). 

Evergreen organizes its curriculum through coordinated interdisciplinary studies (rather than through departments and courses).  Students enroll in team-taught interdisciplinary “programs” full time, often for multiple quarters.  Faculty on teaching teams enjoy a high degree of freedom to determine the subject matter, emphases, pace, classroom strategies and modes of evaluation in these programs.  In some years, faculty teach students working close to their own discipline at a variety of experience levels; in other years they join faculty from diverse disciplines to develop a theme-based curriculum, sometimes for first-year students, or for advanced students, or for all levels.  In keeping with this teaching and learning model, ideal candidates for this position will demonstrate engagement with one or more disciplines outside of creative writing and in different social, cultural, or environmental arenas, through creative work, teaching, or research. We’re searching for a faculty member who enjoys working with other faculty to model for students and with students the collaborative strategies that multiple disciplines deploy to succeed in the scholarly and professional worlds. We also encourage applicants who have had experience teaching and/or working with students from underrepresented populations.

In addition to teaching, faculty are expected to advise and mentor students and participate in Evergreen’s system of shared governance. Through their participation in shared governance, faculty play a significant role in most aspects of how the college is run.

Minimum Qualifications:
M.F.A. or equivalent terminal degree;
College level teaching experience;
Publications in fiction and one other genre (screenwriting, creative nonfiction or graphic novel); and
Experience integrating the teaching of creative writing with other disciplinary fields.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience teaching with faculty from a variety of disciplines; and
Experience teaching and/or working with students from underrepresented populations.

Eligible media

Literary Arts, Arts Related