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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Dear Colleagues (with apologies for cross-postings),<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">I am happy to tell you about two advanced, tenure-line positions at West<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Virginia University.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">We seek applications for an advanced assistant or associate professor of<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Rhetoric and Composition to serve as the department’s Undergraduate Writing<o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(15, 14, 14);">Coordinator
starting August 2021, as well as applications for the newly endowed<o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(15, 14, 14); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">Gaziano Family Legacy Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies.</span><o:p style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; background-color: ; color: rgb(15, 14, 14); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Details about each position are available on the WVU careers website:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#551A8C">https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">(You will see the positions more quickly if you narrow your WVU search to the<o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: rgb(15, 14, 14); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt;">College
of Arts and Sciences and full-time positions.)</span><o:p style="color: rgb(15, 14, 14); font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; background-color: ;"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">I hope you will consider applying! Thank you and take care.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Brian</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Brian Ballentine</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Chair</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Department of English</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">West Virginia University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E">Morgantown, WV </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0F0E0E"><a href="https://english.wvu.edu/">https://english.wvu.edu/</a><br>
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