COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION
Department of Communication Studies
Assistant Professor
COFAC-4004
Towson University: Towson University (TU) is one of the nation’s top 100 public universities. Located north of Baltimore, TU currently enrolls over 19,000 students and is the second-largest university in the prestigious University System of Maryland. Towson University fosters a climate that is grounded in respect to cultivate the intellectual and personal growth of the entire university community.
Position: The College of Fine Arts & Communication invites applications for a tenure-track, 9-month Assistant Professor position in the Department of Communication Studies. Preferred start date August, 2027.
Qualifications: The successful candidate will hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in Communication or a related field at the time of appointment (August 1, 2027). Candidates will demonstrate success or potential as a classroom teacher and researcher across multiple qualitative research methods such as cutting-edge critical, performance, rhetoric, and arts-based methods. Candidates must have a commitment to teaching and mentoring/advising undergraduate and graduate students. Candidates should be able to demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship with a potential for partnering across the department, university, and community and for securing internal and external funding.
Candidates must have a broad commitment to critical communication pedagogy and be able to teach qualitative research courses especially the following undergraduate core courses: Introduction to Communication Studies, Critical Writing and Research, and Critical Research Methods. At the graduate level, candidates should be able to teach Advanced Qualitative Research Methods and Advanced Communication Theory. We also seek a colleague whose scholarship, embodied work, and teaching align with but is not limited to critical/humanistic communication theories and methods to emerging trends in health communication, environmental communication, digital communication, organizational and leadership communication, intercultural communication, or interpersonal communication. Candidates whose work addresses interdisciplinary fields such as disability studies, races and ethnic studies, queer and trans studies, native and indigenous knowledge, and artificial intelligence policy will also be considered. Successful candidates may have the opportunity to teach elective classes and/or develop additional electives related to their area of research expertise.
Salary and Benefits: Targeted salary range: $67,000 - $70,000.
Benefits: TU offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes excellent health, life and retirement plans; and tuition remission. To learn more about our benefits, click here for regular faculty/regular lecturer or here for contingent lecturer. TU also offers a variety of great perks and discounts, which can be found here.
For more information regarding this position and to view the ad in its entirety, we ask that you visit the Office of the Provost website and view our open faculty positions at https://www.towson.edu/provost/prospective/openpositions.html
