[ecrea] Assistant Professor job at UC Santa Barbara

The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of 
California, Santa Barbara announces a tenure-track Assistant Professor 
position in Media and the Environment. The appointment will begin on 
July 1, 2015.

We are a department with a broad research agenda that includes multiple 
scholarly approaches to film and media and a dynamic understanding of 
what consitutes objects of film and media study. With this appointment 
we intend to expand the department’s research and curricular strengths, 
international scope, and interdisciplinary interests.

We are seeking a humanities scholar whose scholarship connects the 
historical and theoretical scope of our field to a broader spatial and 
environmental consciousness informed by science and technology studies. 
Our ideal candidate is a media researcher interested in the various ways 
that media and the environment influence, structure, and inhabit one 
another. Areas of specialization might include: environmentally-themed 
media; media ecologies; social movements and media advocacy; resource 
use and waste economies; green media; media-rich practices of scientific 
investigation; biopower and geopolitics.

The dossier of the successful candidate will show a strong commitment to 
teaching as well as an outstanding record of research activity. S/he 
will be expected to teach in the core areas of our undergraduate and 
graduate programs and develop innovative courses on media and the 
environment integrated within a liberal arts curriculum. A PhD is 
expected by the time of appointment. The department is especially 
interested in individuals who can contribute to the diversity and 
excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and 
service.

The department serves over 400 undergraduate majors and 30 doctoral 
students. Our facilities include the state-of-the-art Pollock Theater 
housed within the Carsey-Wolf Center which supports research, teaching, 
and public programming about all forms of media, including the 
Environmental Media Initiative and its Blue Horizons and GreenScreen 
course clusters. Our university is also home to the Bren School of 
Environmental Science & Management, the pioneering Environmental Studies 
Program, and the English Department’s Center for Literature and 
Environment among other concentrated areas of environmental research. An 
interdisciplinary doctoral emphasis in Environment and Society has just 
been approved on our campus.

TO APPLY: Applications are accepted via the UCSB Academic Recruit online 
system https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/, and must include 1) a letter 
of application outlining current and future research plans; 2) 
curriculum vitae; 3) one writing sample; 4) at least three confidential 
letters of recommendation. To ensure full consideration, complete 
applications should be received on or before October 31, 2014. For any 
questions, please contact Kathy Murray at (kmurray /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu) 
<mailto:(kmurray /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu)>. Department website: 
http://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/

“The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action 
Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for 
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national 
origin, or any other characteristic protected by law including protected 
Veterans and individuals with disabilities."