[ecrea] Job Advertisement: Professorship in Media and Communication Studies with the Special Area Comparative Cultural Analyses at the University of Bremen

Job Advertisement: Professorship in Media and Communication Studies with 
the Special Area Comparative Cultural Analyses at the University of Bremen

The University of Bremen, a mid-sized university with 250 professorships 
and 19,000 students, offers a broad range of disciplines and competes 
internationally in top-level research. With an ambitious institutional 
strategy the university was successful in the Excellence Initiative as 
one of eleven universities in Germany.

The university will now strengthen research and development by awarding 
temporary professorships in a number of defined dynamic areas. One of 
these areas is the research field of "Media Change", which investigates 
the communicative figurations of mediatized cultures and societies.


The University of Bremen, Faculty 9 Cultural Studies invites applicants 
for the following position:

Professorship (W 2/Associate Professor) in Media and Communication 
Studies with the Special Area Comparative Cultural Analyses (temporary 
for five years)
Reference number P 692/15

Applicants should have expertise in media and communication research 
with a focus on comparative cultural analyses. The research can be 
oriented to national comparison but also different forms of 
transcultural comparison (for example in the fields of popular culture, 
media environments or social movements) and should be undertaken in a 
transmedial perspective. An engagement within the research field "Media 
Change" within the Faculty of Cultural Studies and the acquisition of 
third-party funding are expected, as well as interdisciplinary research 
cooperation within the Centre for Media, Communication and Information 
Research (ZeMKI) and its research group "Communicative Figurations". 
Teaching is dedicated to the BA and MA programs of the Institute for 
Historic Journalism, Communication and Media Studies (IPKM) and should 
include beside various thematic modules courses in comparative media 
research and general courses in the field of media and communications 
including methods. An interest in the increasing number of postgraduate 
programs is also expected.


In addition to the pre-conditions of civil service law, a relevant 
doctoral dissertation, as well as other relevant academic achievements 
of outstanding quality, evidenced, for instance, by a junior 
professorship or by a post-doctoral thesis. A further requirement is 
that the successful candidates can evidence their pedagogical-didactic 
suitability by documented teaching experience. Applicants are expected 
to have acquired teaching skills in the German language after a period 
of 3 years.

We expect a readiness to cooperate in research with other research areas 
within and outside the University of Bremen. We also expect the 
applicant's readiness to acquire third-party funds as well as openness 
to innovations in teaching methods. Experience with media-supported 
forms of teaching is desirable as well as the readiness to consider 
gender aspects in research and teaching.

The University of Bremen has received a number of awards for its 
diversity policies. We strive to increase the number of female 
researchers and particularly solicit applications from suitably 
qualified female candidates. International applications and applications 
on the part of academics with a migration background are explicitly 
welcome. Disabled persons with the same professional and personal 
qualifications will be given preference.
For further information please contact the head of the Centre for Media, 
Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp.

Please send your application including CV, teaching experience, research 
profile and a list of publications by 12.3.2015, citing the reference 
number to:
Dean of Faculty 9 -- Cultural Studies
Herrn Prof. Dr. Dr. Christoph Auffarth Universität Bremen
Postfach 330 440 <x-apple-data-detectors://1>
28334 Bremen <x-apple-data-detectors://1>
Germany <x-apple-data-detectors://1>

www.uni-bremen.de <http://www.uni-bremen.de/>