Assistant Professor
Required Qualifications
Candidates must have a strong record of publication, including at least one memoir
or creative nonfiction collection of literary merit from a respected press; an M.F.A.
in Creative Writing or the equivalent, such as a B.A. with an exceptionally strong
record of publication of creative nonfiction or a PhD with a strong record of publication
of creative nonfiction; and evidence of successful teaching at the undergraduate and/or
graduate level.
Preferred Qualifications
Publication in and the ability to teach literary fiction or literary genre fiction.
Interest and/or experience in teaching culturally diverse curricula. Interest and/or
experience in program leadership, as, for example, building a reading series or advising
a student literary journal. Academic or community service.
Responsibilities & Requirements
Stony Brook's Creative Writing and Literature Program seeks a full-time tenure track
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing to start September 1, 2019. This position
carries a 3/2 teaching load of creative writing and literature courses, as well as
thesis direction, and advising at both the undergraduate and graduate levels on two
campuses, located within an hour commute of each other. Undergraduate courses are
held at Stony Brook; M.F.A. courses are held in Southampton. CWL is the flagship
program in an entrepreneurial, innovative department that also offers an M.F.A. in
Film and, during July, workshops for visiting students through the Southampton Writers
Conference. Writers Speak, its reading series, brings writers of national reputation
in all literary genres to campus; TSR: The Southampton Review, its literary magazine,
publishes original writing and artwork from established and emerging voices. The
successful candidate will contribute to these activities. Faculty members with leadership
roles receive course release. Opportunities to teach at the Manhattan Center for
Creative Writing and Film are possible according to interest and program need. Early
career, writers of color, LGBTQ, as well as diverse voices are strongly encouraged
to apply.
Special Notes
This is a tenure track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime
provisions of the FLSA. Internal and external search to occur simultaneously. Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2019.
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order,
is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide
his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time
as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation.
If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the
Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.
The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.
Application Procedure
Those interested in this position should submit a State Employment Application, cover letter and resume/CV by clicking Apply. Alternately, you may submit your application package to the departmental
address or fax below. Please also fill out an online Applicant Information Survey. Do not submit this survey to the department.
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| Dr. Carla Caglioti, Search Chair |
| MFA in Creative Writing in Literature |
| Stony Brook Southampton |
| 239 Montauk Highway |
| Southampton 11968 |
| Fax: (631) 982-7318 |
| Email: CWLSearch@stonybrook.edu |
Campus Description
Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is
located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island's scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre
campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than
13,500 faculty and staff. SBU is a comprehensive research-intensive university and
a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), which includes
34 public universities among its 62 members. SBU consists of 12 schools and colleges
and a teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art healthcare in the Long Island
region. SBU also manages and performs joint research with Brookhaven National Laboratory,
the only Department of Energy Laboratory in the Northeast, and shares doctoral programs
with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a world-renowned molecular biology institute.
Home to the Emerson String Quartet, the Pollock-Krasner House in East Hampton, New
York, the Humanities Institute, and the Southampton Arts Program, and with endeavors
that extend to the Turkana Basin Institute in Kenya and the Ranomafana National Park
in Madagascar, SBU sustains an international reputation that cuts across the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
| Official Job Title: |
Assistant Professor |
| REF#: |
F-9979-18-12 |
| Campus: |
Stony Brook West Campus |
| Department: |
Creative Writing - Southampton Provost |
| Salary: |
Commensurate with Experience |
| Posting Start Date: |
12/14/2018 |
| Posting End Date: |
02/01/2019 |
Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure
Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 02/01/2019, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Stony Brook University is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of
an inclusive learning, and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion,
sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
age, disability, genetic information,veteran status and all other protected classes
under federal or state laws.
If you need a disability-related accommodation, please call the university
office of institutional diversity and equity at (631)632-6280.
| Job Category: Faculty and Librarian |
Posting Date: 12/14/2018
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