Assistant Professor of Communication

Towson University•Towson, MD

3d•$67,000 - $70,000•Onsite

About The Position

The College of Fine Arts & Communication at Towson University invites applications for a tenure-track, 9-month Assistant Professor position in the Department of Communication Studies. The preferred start date is August 2027. Towson University is a public university located north of Baltimore, Maryland, with over 19,000 students and is part of the University System of Maryland. The department offers undergraduate majors and minors in Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Professional Communication, as well as a Master of Arts in Communication and Advocacy. The department has approximately 300 majors and is served by 14 full-time and 25 part-time faculty members specializing in rhetoric, organizational communication, critical/cultural studies, performance studies, intercultural communication, and critical/qualitative research methods.

Requirements

Hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in Communication or a related field at the time of appointment (August 1, 2027).
Demonstrate success or potential as a classroom teacher and researcher across multiple qualitative research methods (e.g., critical, performance, rhetoric, arts-based methods).
Commitment to teaching and mentoring/advising undergraduate and graduate students.
Ability to demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship with potential for partnering across the department, university, and community, and for securing internal and external funding.
Broad commitment to critical communication pedagogy.
Ability to teach qualitative research courses, specifically Introduction to Communication Studies, Critical Writing and Research, and Critical Research Methods at the undergraduate level.
Ability to teach Advanced Qualitative Research Methods and Advanced Communication Theory at the graduate level.
Scholarship, embodied work, and teaching that align with critical/humanistic communication theories and methods, and emerging trends in areas such as health communication, environmental communication, digital communication, organizational and leadership communication, intercultural communication, or interpersonal communication.
Consideration for 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.

Nice To Haves

Scholarship, embodied work, and teaching that align with emerging trends in health communication, environmental communication, digital communication, organizational and leadership communication, intercultural communication, or interpersonal communication.
Work that addresses interdisciplinary fields such as disability studies, races and ethnic studies, queer and trans studies, native and indigenous knowledge, and artificial intelligence policy.
Candidates whose research intersects with or extends department strengths in embodied communicative praxis to engage in social activism and advocacy.
Opportunity to teach elective classes and/or develop additional electives related to their area of research expertise.

Responsibilities

Teach five or six classes over a 9-month academic year for the first year, with undergraduate class sizes averaging 22 students and graduate class sizes averaging 15 students.
Potentially teach courses at the Towson University Northeast (TUNE) campus on a rotating basis.
Engage in scholarly research productivity.
Provide service to the department, college, and university, including mentoring and advising students.