[ecrea] Tenure-track position in Digital Media / Trent University (Cultural Studies)

Department of Cultural Studies - Media

Tenure-track position in Digital Media

The Cultural Studies Department at Trent University invites applications for a tenure-stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting July 1st, 2012. Please note that this position is subject to budgetary approval.

We are looking for a versatile cultural theorist and active scholar in the area of Media Studies, with a specialization in Digital Media. The successful candidate will have a completed Ph.D., an excellent teaching record, a research program with a focus in digital media studies, and demonstrated ability in academic/administrative organisation. The successful candidate will most likely be asked to anchor three “core” Media courses in the Cultural Studies Department -- “Introduction to Media Studies” at the 1st year level (being introduced for the first time in 2012-13), “Media and Society” at the 2nd year level, and an Advanced Studies in Digital Media course at the 4th year level. Experience in working with teaching assistants would be an asset. The new tenure track faculty member will also be invited to participate in the life of the Department and in the graduate programs associated with the Department (PhD in Cultural Studies and MA in Theory, Culture, and Politics), as w!
 ell as play a central role in the new multi-Departmental Media Studies Program, which is scheduled to launch in September 2012 (now pending Ministry approval).*

Applicants should submit a covering letter that addresses qualifications for the position as described in this posting; a C.V.; a writing sample; a teaching dossier, including course evaluations; and some draft proposed syllabi for the courses mentioned above, to:

Victoria de Zwaan
Chair, Cultural Studies Department
Trent University, Peterborough
ON K9H 7B8
(vdezwaan /at/ trentu.ca)
(705) 748-1011, ext. 6094

In addition, three letters of reference should be sent on your behalf (either by regular mail or by email, with subject line “Reference letter, TT Media”) to the Chair.

*See www.trentu.ca/culturalstudies and www.trentu.ca’culturalstudiesphd for information about the Cultural Studies Department, and www.trentu.ca/mediastudies for information about the proposed Media Studies Program, including the stated objectives of the new 1st year course. In addition, interested applicants are invited to contact the Department’s Academic Secretary Rosemary Devlin at (cultstudies /at/ trentu.ca) or 705.748.1771 for more information. Please note that existing syllabi are only possible models; applicants will not be asked to teach those existing syllabi, but to consider them as points of departure in developing new draft syllabi that reflect their own strengths, interests, and intellectual/pedagogic commitments.

Deadline: February 20th 2012. Files may be submitted after this date, until the position is filled.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Trent University is an employment equity employer, and especially invites applications from women, aboriginal people, visible minorities and persons with disabilities.
	



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