The Writing Center is now accepting applications for following graduate assistantships.  Both offer rich apprenticeships in academic program administration. The faculty directors actively mentor GAs in professional development and research, and the 25 undergraduate and graduate tutors on staff constitute a vibrant, interdisciplinary community.

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Assistant Director | Full Assistantship (20 hours/week)

Assistantship start date: August 2020

The Assistant Director is involved in all aspects of writing center administration, serving on a leadership team that includes faculty (Tom Deans, Kathleen Tonry), a program administrator (Margie Ouimette), and a fellow graduate assistant director (Kyle Barron). Duties include recruiting, training, and mentoring tutors; participating in weekly team meetings; organizing events and leading workshops; maintaining partnerships across campus (for example, with First-Year Writing and First-Year Experience); conducting research; and handling other duties as assigned by the faculty directors. While the position is mainly administrative, Assistant Directors also do regular one-on-one tutoring. Successful candidates must have a commitment to undergraduate education, cross-disciplinary collaboration, peer tutoring, and teaching writing. They should also be capable and creative project managers. Preferred qualifications include experience with writing centers and sustained engagement with scholarship in writing studies.

Please upload a letter of interest, resume/CV, and writing sample using the application below.

 

Graduate Writing Support Coordinator | Full Assistantship (20 hour/week)

Assistantship start date: August 2020 

Part of our core administrative team, the GWSC leads efforts to support graduate writers across campus. Duties include teaching three 5-week, ungraded seminars in academic writing; arranging one-on-one tutoring for graduate students; doing individualized tutoring; organizing writing retreats and dissertation bootcamps; and serving as the Writing Center’s liaison to various constituencies on campus. Successful candidates will be creative and organized project managers. They must also have a commitment to working across disciplines, languages, and cultures. Recent holders of this position have parlayed their experience into successful tenure-track faculty placements.

We are widely recognized as among the most innovative and research-intensive writing centers in the nation, and our 25 tutors form a diverse community of undergraduates and graduates who are a joy to work with. Beyond delivering nearly 5,000 individualized tutorials per year, the center maintains partnerships across campus and sponsors writing across the disciplines. Our assistantships offer rich apprenticeships in program administration, and we’re committed to the professional growth of our GAs. The faculty directors mentor GAs in academic program development, as well as in research.

Applicants from all UConn departments are invited to apply (past Writing Center GAs have come from English, EEB, Linguistics, LCL, Sociology, Neag, and Communication Sciences). International graduate students are likewise invited to apply. Please upload a letter of interest, resume/CV, and writing sample using the application below.

If you have questions about the GAships, please contact Tom Deans (tom.deans@uconn.edu) or Kathleen Tonry (kathleen.tonry@uconn.edu). If you have questions about submitting materials, please contact Margie Ouimette (margie.ouimette@uconn.edu)

Deadline to apply for both positions is Friday, March 6, 2020.