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Opportunities for Undergraduate Students
Peer Writing Tutors
The Writing Program is continuing its Undergraduate Peer Writing Tutor positions in 2025-26. Because the College Core Writing Tutors help undergrads working on papers in a wide variety of courses, we encourage current second- and third-year undergraduate students from any major at the University of Chicago to apply when applications are open.
Peer Writing Tutors provide one-on-one writing support to fellow undergraduates enrolled in Core courses. Peer Writing Tutors are not copyeditors or proofreaders. Instead, they help writers improve their skills in analyzing and revising academic writing.
Successful applicants will be awarded a seat in our quarter-long, credit-bearing training course: a dedicated Peer Writing Tutor section of ENGL 13000: Academic and Professional Writing (Little Red Schoolhouse) in Spring 2025. Successful completion of the training course is required in order to begin working in Autumn 2025.
Upon successful completion of the training, Peer Writing Tutors will begin working one, two or three 4-hour tutoring shifts per week, during the evenings in Autumn 2025. Peer Writing Tutor positions are renewable in subsequent academic quarters.
Current Salary: $16.20/hour.
Applications for 2025-26 Peer Writing Tutors are now closed.
Opportunities for Graduate Students
The Writing Program primarily trains and hires University of Chicago graduate students for a number of teaching positions. We hire Teaching Assistants in Academic and Professional Writing and Writing Tutors for undergraduates across all years and majors. Learn more about these positions here.
Applications for Writing Program positions in 2025-26 are now closed.
Career-Track Opportunities
Instructional Professor (Open Rank) – University Writing Program
The College at the University of Chicago invites applications for appointment as Instructional Professor at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full in the University Writing Program. This is a full-time, career-track teaching position. The initial appointment term is from three to five years depending on rank and will begin on September 1, 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter. The salary is competitive and includes benefits. The position is renewable with opportunity for promotion within the Instructional Professor track based on performance review and College recommendation.
Successful candidates will join the University Writing Program (UWP) at a moment of transformation: the UWP is in the process of launching a new, universal, interdisciplinary first-year writing course as part of a broader strategic plan to enrich writing instruction across the curriculum and in the disciplines throughout the University. Housed in the College’s Office of Research and Teaching Innovations (ORTI), the UWP contributes to ORTI’s principal mission to strengthen, transform, and extend liberal arts learning in the College and beyond. New colleagues will contribute to a dynamic, interdisciplinary community of teacher-scholars at a leading urban research university committed to critical inquiry and free expression.
The UWP Instructional Professor’s primary responsibility will be to teach small, seminar-style, writing-intensive courses—up to six quarter-length courses per year—in accordance with curricular and assignment guidelines developed by the UWP. In addition to teaching sections of first-year writing courses, Instructional Professors may have the opportunity to develop and teach courses related to public and community-oriented writing, multimodal composition, and advanced research writing (including the UWP’s historic flagship course, Academic and Professional Writing, commonly known as “Little Red Schoolhouse”). Further responsibilities will include contributing to co-curricular and administrative programmatic initiatives aimed at enhancing the culture of writing instruction in the College, and to relevant professional development initiatives related to writing pedagogy.
We welcome applications from candidates with strong interest and experience in writing pedagogy from all fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The terms and conditions of this position are described in the collective bargaining agreement between the University of Chicago and the Service Employees International Union.
The open-rank Instructional Professor search is open until filled. The review of applications will begin on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, and will continue until positions are filled or the search is closed.
Candidates must apply through the University of Chicago’s Interfolio website. The Interfolio website will also contain information about the qualifications and materials required to apply for the Instructional Professor position.
If you have questions, please contact the Executive Director of the University Writing Program and chair of the search committee, Abigail Reardon, at uwpsearch@uchicago.edu.
Questions? Email writing-program@uchicago.edu, or stop by Stuart 330A.