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The University of Utah Film & Media Arts
Department invites applications and nominations for a tenure-track position
at the rank of assistant professor with a specialization in Media Arts
Production, to begin July 2018.
The successful candidate’s creative work and
teaching will address media production across a variety of platforms and
modes of storytelling. These may include, but are not limited to, animation;
games; virtual reality; or interactive, mobile, social, or trans- media. The
successful candidate will play a role in revising and developing curriculum
that addresses multiple platforms and approaches to storytelling. Applicants
should have a terminal degree and/or a significant record of achievement in
their field, a body of creative work and experience teaching at the college
level. We especially welcome applicants who teach critical concepts in their
production courses.
The University of Utah and the Film & Media
Arts Department are interested in candidates who will contribute to diversity
and equal opportunity in higher education through their teaching, research,
and service.
Applicants must submit a letter of interest
addressing creative work and teaching, including specific courses they are
prepared to teach; a CV; 3-5 examples of recent creative works in a pdf with
embedded links; and three letters of recommendation to https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/64604
. Questions about the position are welcome, and can be directed to Sterling
Van Wagenen, Search Committee Chair, Sterling.vanwagenen@utah.edu. Review of
applications will begin September 5, 2017 (eight weeks from first ad), and
will continue until the position is filled.
The Department of Film & Media Arts has over
600 undergraduate students across film production, animation, and game design
emphases and 19 graduate students. It is ranked in the top fourteen film
departments in the western region by (http://filmcolleges.com) and the top 30
in the nation by (http://college.usatoday.com/tag/college-factual/). It is
the largest academic unit in a College of Fine Arts that also includes a
School of Dance, a School of Music, a Department of Art & Art History,
and a Department of Theatre. The Film & Media Arts faculty produce
creative work, research and teach in animation, critical film and media
studies, film production; narrative, documentary, experimental, and games,
gender and sexuality studies, history and criticism, independent film,
international cinema, screenwriting, sound production, and theory.
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