Assistant Professor of Rhetoric

The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University invites applications for the position of assistant professor of rhetoric at the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric.

The assistant professorship is a full-time, three-year fixed-term position, and subject to appropriate funding, there will be an opportunity to apply for a subsequent associate professorship.

The appointment begins on 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The School of Communication and Culture is committed to diversity and encourages all qualified applicants to apply regardless of their personal background.

The position

The assistant professorship in rhetoric at the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric includes responsibilities across Aarhus University’s core activities in research, teaching and supervision, talent development and knowledge exchange within the field of rhetoric.

As teaching duties may extend beyond the Department of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric, the successful applicant should expect to teach on programmes offered by other departments within the School of Communication and Culture. Accordingly, the assessment committee will place particular emphasis on documented interdisciplinary media competencies relevant to rhetorical studies, Scandinavian studies and aesthetic studies.

Applicants must have strong, well-documented research qualifications in rhetorical studies. We particularly welcome applicants with expertise in both the classical rhetorical tradition and contemporary rhetorical scholarship.

We seek a committed and forward-looking scholar who will actively contribute to strengthening the department’s research and teaching profiles at both national and international levels.

Research

We are particularly seeking applicants with research experience and substantial knowledge in one or more of the following fields of study:

• deliberative rhetoric in different media ecologies, for instance social media, news media or digital rhetoric, including digital methodological approaches
• writing and composition, in particular pertaining to citizenship and the formation of democratic competencies
• the rhetorical tradition and its significance for contemporary rhetorical criticism.

Teaching and supervision

We are seeking applicants with university-level teaching and supervision experience in rhetoric. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the department’s teaching and supervision activities and to teach and supervise on the department’s Master’s degree programme in rhetoric (2017), the Bachelor’s supplementary subject in rhetoric (2021), the Bachelor’s supplementary subject in creative and professional writing (2020) and the part-time professional Master’s degree programme in rhetoric (2018). The position involves teaching in all general areas of rhetoric offered by the department. Applicants are asked to consult the programme descriptions and indicate in their application which courses they would be able to teach.

The successful applicant will also be expected to contribute to the ongoing development of curricula and degree programmes in the field of rhetoric. In this context, experience of degree programme and curriculum development at universities or similar institutions will be considered an advantage.

Given the international focus of the degree programmes, the successful applicant will be expected to teach in both Danish and English. The successful applicant may also be asked to teach academically relevant courses offered by other departments within the School of Communication and Culture.

The person appointed to the position of assistant professor must complete Aarhus University’s teacher-training programme for assistant professors, which is designed for university teaching.

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