MIT - Assistant Professor, Creative Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Cambridge, MA

Job Description

Comparative Media Studies / Writing section at the Massachusetts Institute of  Technology in Cambridge, MA invites applications for a tenure-track faculty  position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Creative Writing starting July  1, 2026, or as soon thereafter as possible.

Comparative Media Studies / Writing (CMS/W) offers an undergraduate major,  minor, and concentration in Writing. Some students pursue the major in  combination with a technical one. Our section includes a diverse group of  faculty members who work as creative writers, science writers, and other  types of non-fiction writers as well as those who work in many areas of media  studies and practice. Many MIT students have strong backgrounds and interests  in the arts and are especially excited to take creative writing classes. CMS/W features a wide variety of creative writing subjects. A full list of writing subject offerings can be found here: Untenured faculty are typically  supported with two semesters free of teaching via junior faculty research  leaves. There are various opportunities to engage the larger MIT community, 
including in such programs as the new MIT Human Insight Collaborative initiative.

Responsibilities

We seek a candidate to contribute to the Institute’s intellectual life by pursuing an active publishing agenda, teaching courses in creative writing and related subjects at the undergraduate level, advising students, and directing senior theses.

We encourage candidates who write fiction of any or many sorts, including literary fiction, speculative fiction, romance, fantasy, science fiction or other genre fiction. Novelists and short story writers whose writing practice also includes less traditional work in writing for comics, the screen, and digital and non-digital games are welcomed as well. We are especially interested in candidates whose work engages with topics including race/ethnicity, diaspora, global south, gender, feminism, sexuality, disability, and class, as well as the intersections among them.

A full-time teaching load is three undergraduate classes per year and typically includes such classes as Writing & Reading Short Stories, Fiction Workshop, Genre Fiction, and Writing Longer Fiction.

Job Tags

Full time, Immediate start,

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