Description

The Department of Communication in the College of Communication, Media, Design andInformation at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) invites applicants for atenure-track, assistant professor position in Rhetoric and Culture of Radical GlobalImaginaries. A PhD with a specialization in rhetoric and culture is required at the time ofappointment, as is an emerging record of excellence in research related to: Native and Indigenous sovereignty and knowledges, decoloniality and anti-colonialism, rhetoric and law (including in areas such as race and intellectual property, post-apartheid reparations, migrant, immigrant, and refugee rights, critical Artificial Intelligence policy), planetary imaginaries, climate justice, deterritorialization, abolitionist radical imaginaries, and/or international law and policy.

We hope the candidate will make connections within Rhetoric and Culture, across the department, and with the broader campus. The ideal candidate will contribute to and complement our existing critical, qualitative, and transnational scholarly research strengths in: African thought; Black radicalism; climate and environmental justice; sustainability and storytelling; critical and cultural studies; feminist, queer, and trans rhetorics; Latinx and Chican@ Studies; critical theory; and/or social movements. We also expect the candidate to make connections across the three department areas of Community & Social Interaction, Organizational Communication, and Rhetoric & Culture. In addition to a robust and growing agenda related to sustainability across campus, all of our current Rhetoric and Culture faculty are affiliate faculty in Ethnic Studies, and we encourage intellectual and pedagogical relationships with interdisciplinary centers on campus, including: the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Center for African and African American Studies, the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center, and the Center for Asian Studies.

Requirements

PhD in communication with a specialization in rhetoric and culture. Completion of the degree is required by the time of appointment. 

Research agenda that contributes to knowledge in one of the identified areas of expertise.
Demonstrated ability to teach foundational classes in rhetoric and culture.
Expertise in and ability to teach at least one of the following areas: Native and Indigenous sovereignty and knowledges, decoloniality and anti-colonialism, rhetoricand law, planetary imaginaries, climate justice, deterritorialization, abolitionist radicalimaginaries, international law and policy.