About Us
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.
Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
- Students are our top priority.
- We strive for excellence.
- We thrive on diversity.
- We celebrate collaboration.
- We champion innovation.
- We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
- We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
- We act ethically.
- We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Department Information
The Writing and Communication Program teaches over 6,000 students a year in first-year composition, business/technical communication, research writing, and learning support. Committed to excellent teaching and faculty professional development, WCP is the winner of programmatic awards from the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the University System of Georgia, and Georgia Tech.
Job Summary
The Writing and Communication Program (WCP) at the Georgia Institute of Technology invites applications for multiple Lecturer positions, effective August 1, 2027. Lecturers in the Writing and Communication Program teach a 3/3 load in writing and communication classes, pursue relevant research, and provide service to the Program and Institute. This is a faculty position with full benefits that is renewable annually. Candidates are expected to demonstrate an exceptional commitment to the teaching and mentoring of students. In addition to full faculty benefits, including health insurance and retirement, Georgia Tech has a career track that affords successful lecturers the possibility to apply for promotion, first to Senior Lecturer and then to Principal Lecturer. Lecturers primarily teach first-year writing and technical communication. Courses in our first-year writing program combine the instructor's area of research expertise with the commitments to rhetoric, process and multimodality that unite and define WCP courses.
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.
Required Qualifications
Master's degree in Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication, Communication Studies, English or related field at time of appointment
Preferred Qualifications
PhD in Writing Studies, Rhetoric and Composition, Technical Communication, Communication Studies, English or related field at time of appointment
Preferred candidates for consideration will have:
- Experience teaching undergraduate public speaking/oral communication courses
- At least five years of experience teaching first-year writing and/or technical communication
- Demonstrated professional commitment to the teaching of writing
- Demonstrated professional engagement with the scholarship of the teaching of writing
- Evidence of excellent teaching
We are particularly interested in faculty who have a professional commitment/scholarly expertise in the following areas:
- Oral Communication, Public Speaking, and/or Debate
- Pedagogies of Multimodal Communication
Proposed Salary
The salary for this position is $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per academic year (nine-months). Commensurate with education and experience.
Required Documents to Attach
Interested and qualified individuals should apply by submitting:
- A curriculum vitae
- A letter of application that specifically addresses their qualifications to work in a multimodal writing program
- A list of three references.
An earned master's degree is required by the start of the appointment.
Apply Before Date
Please apply by November 30, 2026 for optimal consideration. Review of applications will continue until all vacant positions are filled.
Contact Information
Requests for information may be directed to Search Chair Dr. Caitlin Kelly at caitlin.kelly@gatech.edu
USG Core Values
The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.
Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.
Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.
Background Check
A successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit: https://usg.policystat.com/policy/19298143/latest
