Professor, Creative Writing Program, College of Arts & Sciences Job at Boston Un

Professor, Creative Writing Program, College of Arts & Sciences

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Posted Date: 12/19/2025 • Boston, Massachusetts

Position Type: Full‑Time / Regular

Primary Responsibilities:

• Teach in the renowned MFA Program, including recruiting and mentoring MFA fiction writers.
• Occasionally teach undergraduate creative writing courses.
• Administer and build the Creative Writing Program and serve as its director.

Qualifications:

• Full Professor with tenure, appointed to the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities.
• Fiction writer of national/international stature with significant publications in fiction (ideally short fiction and the novel) in English.
• Publication and teaching expertise in a second genre (e.g., Creative Nonfiction) is a plus, as is experience in Literary Translation.
• Administrative experience necessary for directing the CWP.

Compensation: $150,000 – $220,000 (salary set based on departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training, and internal pay comparison.)

Application Instructions: Submit cover letter, CV, writing sample (max 20 pages), teaching statement, creative statement, and three letters of reference by February 2, 2026 to ensearch@bu.edu.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement (Required EEO):

Boston University is an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, national origin, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or identified in the University’s Notice of Non‑Discrimination. Retaliation is also prohibited. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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