[Commlist] Job Opportunity: Clinical Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Media at Loyola Marymount University

Clinical Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Media at Loyola 
Marymount University

LMU is launching an interdisciplinary initiative to capitalize on our 
existing strengths in the broadly defined area of media studies. As part 
of this initiative we are recruiting 2 full-time, non-tenure-track (9 
month, term), Assistant Clinical Professors. These positions will be for 
an initial appointment of 3 years, with the potential for renewal, with 
a start date of August 15, 2020. A full-time teaching load is 3 courses 
or the equivalent of 12 units per semester. One of these positions will 
be housed in the Department of English and the other in the Department 
of Communication Studies; however, it is expected that both positions 
will have the capacity to teach, mentor, and build student and faculty 
community across Departments. These positions require a strong 
commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation.

Ideal candidates should demonstrate a critical or political-economic 
approach to media studies or journalism production. The successful 
candidate will have the capacity to teach professional practice as well 
as theoretical courses. Candidates must be able to teach courses in two 
or more of the following: digital humanities, visual journalism, data 
journalism or computer assisted reporting, digital media, digital 
rhetoric, social media, web-based technologies, media entrepreneurship, 
media industries and economy, network analytics, or augmented and 
virtual realities. Ideal candidates will meet all minimum qualifications 
and also have the following: An outstanding record of professional work, 
inclusive of (but not limited to): academic publication, documentary 
production, news writing and reporting, social media production and 
management, broadcast journalism, or public interest research.

Minimum qualifications: The position requires a minimum of a Master’s 
Degree in a relevant field; a minimum of 1 year college-level teaching 
experience (including graduate teaching) or the equivalent; and 
professional experience related to potential teaching areas. Applicants 
with PhDs are potentially preferred, depending on overall professional 
expertise and qualifications. Given the innovative, interdisciplinary 
approach being taken toward these positions, applicants will be 
considered based on a holistic evaluation of their education and 
practical experiences.

Application Materials:

1. Letter of Application that includes a discussion of overall 
qualifications, potential to teach and develop courses in the designated 
areas, and reflections on media education in relation to LMU’s 
particular educational mission.

2. Professional resume/CV.

3. A separate statement outlining the candidate’s commitment and 
approach to interdisciplinarity and innovation as it pertains to media 
studies.

4. Evidence of teaching effectiveness. This evidence should include a 
formal teaching philosophy, which details the principles and values 
underlying the applicant’s approach to the process of teaching and 
classroom engagement. In addition, the candidate should include 
compelling evidence of classroom teaching, or teaching-related 
experience; this evidence might include: complete copies of course 
evaluations, peer teaching evaluations, sample syllabi for existing or 
proposed courses, course descriptions, course assignments, or detailed 
discussions of non-classroom based teaching or mentoring experiences.

5. Unofficial transcripts for highest degree obtained. (Official 
transcripts will be required of finalists during campus interviews).

6. 3 examples of academic and/or professional work.

7. 3 professional letters of reference, at least one of which should 
attest to efficacy in teaching and mentoring.

About the Home Colleges: The Department of English is housed in the 
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts (BCLA). BCLA is founded on respect 
for our diverse global community and passion for creating a more just 
and humane society. BCLA hosts a range of disciplines in the humanities 
and social sciences as well as interdisciplinary majors and minors. BCLA 
students have access to many high impact educational experiences, 
including global immersions, internships, community-based learning, and 
research opportunities integrated with their academic programs. BCLA 
graduates have developed the intellectual capacity, ethical and moral 
reasoning, creative spirit, effective communication, and vital 
intercultural skills needed to succeed in today’s world.

LMU’s interdisciplinary Journalism program is housed in the English 
department. It offers hands-on instruction in the reporting, writing, 
editing, and technological skills that students need to become 
professional and ethical journalists, and balances practice with theory 
by critiquing media representations through the lenses of critical 
studies, rhetoric, and communication theory.

The Department of Communication Studies is housed in the College of 
Communication and Fine Arts (CFA). CFA is a dynamic educational context 
that brings together the diverse interests of students and faculty in 
communication studies and the performing, critical and aesthetic arts of 
theatre, dance, music, studio arts, art history, an interdisciplinary 
and applied studies program— as well as a graduate program in marital 
and family (art) therapy along with a Master of Fine Arts in performance 
and pedagogy. The historical and emergent theories, techniques, and 
intentions of each of these disciplines are promoted and dynamized in 
the notion of communication as art and art as communication and driven 
by the powerful mission of Loyola Marymount University. Within CFA, the 
Department of Communication Studies (CMST) is home to nearly 500 
undergraduate majors and a rapidly growing Minor in Public Relations.

CMST’s curriculum integrates mission-driven values, essential knowledge 
and skills from across a range of communication studies sub-disciplines, 
and a commitment to meeting the pragmatic needs of students entering 
complex post-graduate landscapes. About LMU: Loyola Marymount 
University, a Carnegie classified R2 institution in the mainstream of 
American Catholic higher education, seeks qualified applicants who value 
its mission and share its commitment to inclusive excellence, the 
education of the whole person, and the building of a just society. LMU 
is an equal opportunity employer. Women, persons of color, LGBTQ and 
gender-nonconforming individuals, people living with disabilities, and 
others with diverse life experiences and beliefs are encouraged to 
apply. (Visit www.lmu.edu for more information.)

Application Process: All interested applicants MUST apply online at 
*https://jobs.lmu.edu/*. Inquiries or comments (including those 
regarding required materials) should be directed to *[log in to unmask]* 
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For fullest consideration all materials should be received by October 1.

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