Texas Christian U. Seeks Professor Versed in ‘Trans Rhetoric’
“‘Trans rhetorics’ does not belong on the hiring criteria for a writing professor.”
Christian schools are no longer a refuge from the woke left in higher education.
The College Fix reports:
Texas Christian University seeks ‘trans rhetoric’ professor
Texas Christian University wants to hire a new composition professor who is particularly versed in “trans rhetoric,” “Black studies,” or “antiracist rhetoric.”
Applicants for this new rhetoric and composition professor job, starting in August 2027, will also be considered if they have interests in “disability studies,” “global/transnational rhetorics,” or feminism and “queer rhetorics.”
The Department of English will host this new hire, which will also give them an opportunity to teach in the gender studies and ethnic studies programs. These programs were collapsed last year into the English department due to budget issues and low enrollment.
“Candidates with relevant expertise may also contribute to our department’s programs in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and Women and Gender Studies as well as the program in Digital Culture/Digital Analytics and other interdisciplinary initiatives,” the posting states.
The College Fix reached out to Texas Christian University for a comment regarding how the job listing fits into the department’s learning goals and with the school’s mission as a private, Christian institution.
“I’ll look into it,” spokesman Greg Staley told The Fix. He has not provided any further information in the past several weeks.
Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told The College Fix that the job listing is an example of higher education prioritizing political ideology over foundational skills.
“TCU’s job ad for a rhetoric and composition professor reads like a DEI loyalty test,” DeAngelis told The College Fix. “They want someone in ‘rhetorics of health and medicine’ whose research draws on disability studies, Indigenous studies, Black studies, feminist rhetoric, queer rhetorics, and antiracist writing.”
DeAngelis said that universities should focus on fundamentals like grammar and clear arguments instead of political trends.
“Students in rhetorics and composition should learn how to write clearly, build an argument, use evidence, and handle grammar,” DeAngelis said. “‘Trans rhetorics’ does not belong on the hiring criteria for a writing professor.”
DeAngelis said higher education risks neglecting basic literacy in favor of activism.
“Universities keep staffing writing programs with political activists and then wonder why graduates can’t produce a coherent sentence,” he said. “Parents and students deserve instruction in literacy, not another faculty search built around gender ideology.”
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“Christian”? Yeah, right. “University”? Not by a long shot; more like indoctrination center. WTH is this fraud doing in my Texas?
Were they ever? My vague impression is that many Christian schools are not very Christian, and that many of them were among the pioneers of this nonsense.
Oh Lord…I can imagine just how unreadable the CVs, Letters of Intent, References, and associated documentation will be for THAT fiasco.
The result of putting DEI in undeserved administrative positions.
The key words here are “declining enrollment”. As this accelerates these woken frauds will double down on stupid at first to attract more patsies, but eventually they will experience the consequences of their embrace of their self loathing idolatry of idiocy. The era of promoting very pricey day care for intellectually damaged young adults as “Higher Education” is coming to an ignominious end,