"Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic & Disciplinary Writing"

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Academic & Disciplinary Writing

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to support research in academic and disciplinary writing.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day tasks of a multidisciplinary research team that researches academic and disciplinary writing
• Collect and manage data including student writing, interviews, surveys, focus groups, and think-aloud protocols
• Design teaching materials to scaffold academic and disciplinary writing
• Conduct writing workshops with faculty and students
• Provide writing support for students
• Develop online modules to scaffold academic writing
• Analyze data including student writing
• Assist with preparing presentations for conferences
• Assist with preparing manuscripts for publication

Timeframe: 12-month contract beginning in January 2025 with possibility of renewal.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar offers a competitive salary, travel, housing, and schooling allowances, as well as other benefits, including professional development opportunities.

Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar is a branch campus that operates along with several other American and European branch campuses under the umbrella of the Qatar Foundation's Education City. CMU-Q's student body comes from all over the world; in particular, many come from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central and South Asia.

CMU-Q's focus is undergraduate education in Computer Science, Business Administration, Biological Sciences, and Information Systems.

Qualifications:

• PhD required in English, rhetoric, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, or related field
• Demonstrated excellence in teaching or course support.
• Previous experience teaching academic writing and developing materials to teach writing
• Previous experience conducting research in academic writing, disciplinary writing, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, or corpus linguistics
• Computer skills to be able to develop online teaching modules (preferred but not required)

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