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

Fri Mar 06 20:21:16 GMT 2015




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/>

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