Northwestern College seeks applicants for a full-time, tenure-track position in our English department to begin August 2024. The successful candidate can expect to teach courses in broad-field literature. The teaching load for this position is 24 credit hours per academic year, normally three courses per semester. Teaching expectations include multiple sections of our introductory literary context courses, and at least one section of our first-year seminar, both of which are requirements in our general education program.

Required Qualifications: Candidates should hold a Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in literature. Near-completion ABDs will also be considered. The successful candidate will demonstrate a keen ability to connect with our vibrant undergraduate students, sustain an active research program, and contribute to the life of the institution through faculty committees and other co-curricular service.

Preferred Qualifications: We seek candidates who are capable of teaching world literature. Strongest consideration shall be given to those who also have additional experience in writing or digital media. Our department is excited to welcome a new colleague who is devoted to providing our students with the personalized attention befitting a small, faith-based institution.

Northwestern College seeks candidates with an authentic Christian faith who are supportive of our Reformed, evangelical and ecumenical identity as stated in our Christian Identity Statement, and who embrace the college’s Mission, Vision for Learning and Vision for Diversity. We view these statements as complementary and draw from each in fulfilling our calling to be a Christian academic community.

Northwestern is committed to more fully reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the body of Christ in its faculty, staff, administration and students. Women and candidates from historically underrepresented groups are enthusiastically encouraged to apply.

Apply online and send a current CV and a letter of interest to vpaa@nwciowa.edu. In your letter, (1) summarize your teaching experience; (2) describe your scholarly trajectory; and (3) discuss how our Christian Identity Statement would inform and shape your teaching and scholarship.

Review of applications will begin on Dec. 4, 2023, and continue until the position is filled.

About Northwestern College

Northwestern College is a Christian academic community engaging students in courageous and faithful learning and living that empowers them to follow Christ and pursue God’s redeeming work in the world. That’s our heritage. That’s our mission. Northwestern College values diversity and is committed to providing a Christian liberal arts education in the context of a diverse community of learners. That commitment finds expression in numerous ways. A multicultural community Northwestern's student body includes students from 20 different countries. Among our faculty and staff are individuals from Afghanistan, Argentina, Canada, South Korea and Taiwan. A number of faculty and staff have lived, studied or served in more than 30 countries, including Argentina, Bahrain, China, Ecuador, Greece, Indonesia, Oman, Romania, South Africa, Spain and Thailand. Bridge Scholarships for students from underrepresented populations Scholarships of $2,500 are available to students from historically underrepresented populations who are accepted into Northwestern's Bridge Scholars program. Global learning and living Northwestern offers semester-long study abroad programs in Oman, Romania and... dozens of other countries around the globe. Spring Service Project trips offered each March give students cross-cultural experiences in the United States and at several international sites (The Covid19 virus limited our program's international travel. Please contact Northwestern College if you would like to learn more about global learning and living.) Northwestern's Summer of Service program gives students the opportunity to spend up to 10 weeks serving in an overseas hospital, school, refugee camp or other missions setting. A 10-member team of faculty, staff and students promotes the biblical values of intercultural competence and racial reconciliation. The committee works to strengthen multicultural education and awareness through student programs, curriculum development, diversity training, and campus-wide structural change. It also supports the recruitment and retention of an ethnically diverse faculty, staff, Board of Trustees and student body. Vision for Diversity Guided by the biblical narrative of creation, fall, redemption and restoration, Northwestern College strives to pursue God’s redeeming work in the world by courageously and faithfully engaging the fullness of our similarities and differences in our learning and living together. We embrace diversity in God’s creation, valuing each person as created in the image of the triune God and thus intended for community respecting the complexity of human identities recognizing human differences as central to an education that fosters critical thinking, empathy and dialogue. We lament human brokenness, grieving out thoughts, words and actions that diminish, caricature or isolate one another confessing our failure to hear and respond to marginalized voices on campus and in the world recognizing our past and current participation in unjust social systems repenting from any form of dehumanization that distorts God’s creation. We reconcile with one another, bridging divisions that separate people from one another and from God partaking in courageous conversations where varied perspectives are welcome challenging unjust systems of power, privilege, and oppression building and sustaining social structures that foster the common good. We embody shalom, anticipating restored creation, where people from every nation, tribe and language worship God and live in harmony pursuing human flourishing in our relationships, curriculum, staffing, resource allocation and corporate actions affirming that all things hold together in Christ, to the glory of God.

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