[Commlist] UCLA Tenure Track Position in Games (Open Rank)

*UCLA Department of Design Media Arts:*
*Tenure-track Assistant or Tenured Associate/Full Professor in Games*

*Application Due: *
Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)

*Apply Here*: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08835 
<https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08835>

The Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) within the UCLA School of Arts 
and Architecture invites applications for an open rank tenured or 
tenure-track professor position in the area of Games.

This is a broad call that encourages applications from a wide range of 
practices and approaches to game research, practice, and scholarship. 
Successful candidates will have a strong record of recognition and 
achievement in a game-related field as well as excellence in teaching, 
preferably at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

*Who should apply?*
We seek applications from scholars, artists, and researchers who engage 
with critical and experimental approaches to games. Applicants should 
demonstrate expertise, community engagement, and international 
recognition for one or many critical game-related practices.

*Qualifications*
Terminal degree (MFA or PhD in a related field) or equivalent 
professional experience of 5 years or more.

*Example areas of focus might include:*

- critical theory and method in game studies
- game programming and production
- experimental game art
- game writing and emerging genres
- games and performance
- virtual game environments, narrative, and worldbuilding
- networked media and multiplayer games
- games and accessibility

Ultimately, we are looking for theorists and/or practitioners whose work 
is socially, conceptually, and/or theoretically motivated, who would 
contribute to the diversity of the department and enhance its offerings 
with cross-cultural perspectives. Ideal candidates will contribute to 
further developing the vision of the Design Media Arts Department and 
the UCLA Game Lab, and will work to advance our goals of merging 
artistic practice, social responsibility, and cultural inquiry around 
gaming and related fields.

*Working in the Department of Design Media Arts (DMA)*
DMA is looking for a colleague with a commitment to working in social, 
critical, and cultural spaces, who believes in building nourishing and 
supportive communities. We prioritize diversity, accessibility, and 
accountability. We expect that this position will attract applicants who 
value teaching, academic service and leadership, humanistic practices, 
and collaboration, who have deep commitments to social issues, and who 
manifest their passions and craft within the area of games and media arts.

*Responsibilities*
The position involves teaching three undergraduate studio courses and 
two graduate seminars each academic year, contributing service to the 
department and the University, advancing the goals of the UCLA Game Lab, 
and developing independent research and creative activity appropriate 
for advancement within the University of California. Teaching at UCLA is 
on a quarterly schedule; the teaching load is 2,2,1. Service includes 
chairing or serving on two or three departmental or University-wide 
committees, involvement in departmental admissions, mentoring junior 
faculty, and advising graduate students.

*About UCLA, The Department of Design Media Arts, and the UCLA Game Lab*
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is located in the 
neighborhood of Westwood in Los Angeles. UCLA is an R1 research 
institution and part of the University of California (UC) system, and 
has been ranked as the No. 1 public university by the U.S. News & World 
Report for six consecutive years.

Situated in the School of Arts and Architecture, the department of 
Design Media Arts (DMA) has a population of 24 graduate students in its 
3-year MFA program and approximately 200 undergraduate students in its 
4-year BA program. DMA houses 12 full-time senate faculty, approximately 
15 lecturers, and a range of faculty directed research centers and 
initiatives, which include the UCLA Game Lab, Counterforce Lab, UCLA 
Social Software, Media Arts Research Space (MARS), Art|Sci Center, FLAT 
Journal, and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio. DMA offers a 
technologically innovative and intellectually rigorous curriculum 
anchored around media arts, design, and games, providing a 
multidisciplinary education to foster critical thinking and encourage 
experimentation, creative exploration, and research.

The UCLA Game Lab fosters the production of experimental games and 
game-related research within an art and design context. We emphasize 
conceptual risk-taking and the development of new modes of expression, 
form, and critical inquiry through gaming. In addition to producing 
games and research, the UCLA Game Lab also functions as a center that 
develops public programming around critical issues in gaming, including 
lectures, workshops, exhibitions, a visiting artist program, a summer 
program, and a public game festival at the Hammer Museum, among other 
events.

*Salary*
The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank 
and/or step at appointment. See Table(s) [1]. The salary range for this 
position is $74,600-$197,100. “Off-scale salaries” and other components 
of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide 
salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to 
meet competitive conditions.

The level of appointment will be determined by the candidate’s 
qualifications and professional experience.

The University of California is committed to creating and maintaining a 
community dedicated to the advancement, application, and transmission of 
knowledge and creative endeavors through academic excellence, where all 
individuals who participate in University programs and activities can 
work and learn together in a safe and secure environment, free of 
violence, harassment, bullying and other demeaning behavior, 
discrimination, exploitation, or intimidation. With this commitment as 
well as a commitment to addressing all forms of academic misconduct, 
UCLA conducts targeted employment reference checks for finalists to whom 
departments or other hiring units would like to extend formal offers of 
appointment into Academic Senate faculty positions. The targeted 
employment reference checks involve contacting the finalists’ current 
and prior places of employment to ask whether there have been 
substantiated findings of misconduct that would violate the University’s 
Faculty Code of Conduct. To implement this process, UCLA requires all 
applicants for Academic Senate faculty positions to complete, sign, and 
upload the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” into 
RECRUIT as part of their application. If the applicant does not include 
the signed authorization to release information with the application 
materials, the application will be considered incomplete. As with any 
incomplete application, the application will not receive further 
consideration. Although all applicants for faculty recruitments must 
complete the entire application, only finalists (i.e., those to whom the 
department or other hiring unit would like to extend a formal offer) 
considered for Academic Senate faculty positions will be subject to 
targeted employment reference checks.

*Questions*
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Jenna Caravello 
at (jcaravello /at/ ucla.edu) <mailto:(jcaravello /at/ ucla.edu)> or Eddo Stern at 
(eddostern /at/ arts.ucla.edu) <mailto:(eddostern /at/ arts.ucla.edu)>.

*Apply Here*: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08835 
<https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08835>

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