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English professor resume examples for 2025

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Updated March 26, 2025
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How to write an english professor resume

Craft a resume summary statement

Put a resume summary on the top of your resume to highlight your accomplishments. A resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to write a strong, impressive resume summary:

Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.

Step 2: Include your years of experience in english professor-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.

Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.

Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.

These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some english professor interviews.

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List the right project manager skills

Your Skills section is a place to list all relevant skills and abilities. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:

  1. Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
  2. Include as many relevant hard or technical english professor skills as possible for each job you apply to.
  3. Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
These five steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some english professor interviews.

Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an english professor resume:

  • Classroom Management
  • Grammar
  • Foreign Language
  • American Literature
  • Curriculum Planning
  • ESL
  • Syllabus
  • Course Materials
  • Curriculum Development
  • Vocabulary
  • Public Speaking
  • Professional Development
  • Undergraduate Courses
  • Blackboard
  • MLA
  • Learning Styles
  • Course Objectives
  • Poetry
  • Language
  • Course Content
  • Sentence Structure
  • APA
  • Reading Comprehension
  • PowerPoint
  • Writing Process
  • Class Discussions
  • American Culture
  • Fiction
  • Homework Assignments
  • Composition Courses

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How to structure your work experience

Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.

Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.

Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.

Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the english professor.

How to write english professor experience bullet points

Your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. Instead, it is your chance to show your accomplishments and show why you're good at what you do.

  • Use the What, How, and Why format. Answering these questions turns a bland job description into an effective showcase of your abilities.
  • What were your responsibilities or goals?
  • How did you accomplish them?
  • Why were your results important? (How did it impact your company? Can you quantify the results in numbers? )

Here are effective examples from english professor resumes:

Work history example #1

English Professor (Part-Time)

Glendale Community College

  • Collaborated with six grades teachers to design curriculum and lesson plans that encouraged mathematics throughout multiple subjects.
  • Experienced with both online and traditional classroom learning environments.
  • Developed comprehensive syllabus and quiz-based lessons on mathematics processes and procedures.
  • Researched and analyzed site design principles based on literature and lectures provided by recognized academia and industry leaders.
  • Served on Academic Senate and Accreditation Committee at MSJC and created new online courses approved by Curriculum Committee.

Work history example #2

Composition Instructor

Rowan University

  • Created and implemented team teaching workshops on Federal Hazard Communication Standard and state Right-To-Know training programs.
  • Specialized expertise in criminal law, criminal procedure, and investigative procedures.
  • Awarded Adjunct Teacher of the year in Muncie region 2011
  • Trained extensively in both face-to-face and online tutorials in Learning Management Systems and Student Information Systems.
  • Completed advanced training in Moodle Learning Management System.

Work history example #3

English Professor

Broward County Public Schools

  • Selected texts supplement the course and provide topics for discussion and assignments.
  • Evaluated students in the application of literacy analysis in response to world literature.
  • Developed curriculum and taught ENC1101, ENC 1102 classes and online courses via Desire2Learn and Blackboard.
  • Developed and maintained online materials in educational software.
  • Encouraged student-centered, discussion-based lesson plans including Socratic seminars, small group debates, class-wide performances, and online discussions.

Work history example #4

English Professor

Piedmont Community College

  • Assisted in curriculum development as well as student engagement and retention initiatives.
  • Provided academic instruction in the area of Exercise Physiology to community college students.
  • Coordinated tutoring hours with native English speaking students and ESL students in order to assist them with their assignments.
  • Introduced first year students to short stories, poems and plays.
  • Managed and graded coursework using Canvas, the university's content management system.

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Add an education section to your resume

Employers are looking for a few things when looking at the Education section of your resume:
  • The highest degree you have achieved.
  • TWhere you attended school, and the dates (Although if you graduated some time ago, leave the date off to avoid ageism)
  • TField of study
  • TAny honors, relevant coursework, achievements, or pertinent activities

Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:

Doctoral Degree in english

New York University, New York, NY

2005 - 2008

Highlight your english professor certifications on your resume

Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.

Include the full name of the certification, along with the name of the issuing organization and date of obtainment.

If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your english professor resume:

  1. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
  2. Certificate to Teach English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL)

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