Two Faculty Positions in Media Studies (Assistant, Associate)
 
The Film and Media Studies Program and the Media Arts area of the Department
of Art at the University of South Carolina are pleased to announce two
tenure-track positions in media studies to begin August 2009. Both lines are
approved at the rank of Assistant Professor, and we are authorized to hire
one of them at the rank of Associate Professor.  The positions are in the
areas of: (1) Popular Contemporary Media Studies and (2) Global Media
Histories/Practices.
 
For the position in popular, contemporary (post-1970s) media studies
possible areas of expertise could include a range of approaches to global
Hollywood: e.g., popular genres in film and/or television and how they
travel; industrial practices of globalized entertainment; transnational
circuits of influence to and from US media and other international sites.
They might also include a wide range of international and diasporic media
phenomena that complicate oversimplified conceptions of Hollywood/US
dominance through diverse practices of reception, production, engagement,
and resistance. In either case, we seek someone who can place contemporary,
mainstream English-language media in a global frame.
 
For the position in global media histories/practices we seek a media
historian whose work engages issues concerning international (non US),
comparative, and/or transnational media production and/or consumption.
Potential areas of specialization might include: the history of animation to
the present, political economies of global film/media, the emergence of
post-colonial film/media, the transnational development of film/media, and
the historiography of global media studies. We welcome specializations
within and across a wide range of cultural, national, regional,
technological, and linguistic territories.
 
USC, Columbia is the flagship campus of a public, state university system,
and is designated by the Carnegie Foundation with its highest classification
for research activity.  These joint positions will help develop the critical
media studies components of both an ambitious, rapidly growing film and
media studies program and a thriving media production program.  Teaching for
both units will include courses in media criticism, history, and/or theory.
 
Successful candidates should have a Ph.D. in hand at time of appointment and
demonstrated excellence in research and teaching.  Scholars engaged in media
practice as well as critical media history and theory would be of particular
interest, although this is not required.
 
For full consideration, applications should be received by October 3, 2008.
Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation,
and a writing sample of no more than 30 pp. to:
 
Popular Contemporary Media Search
Film and Media Studies Program
406 Welsh Humanities Office Building
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
 
or
 
Global Media Search
Film and Media Studies Program
406 Welsh Humanities Office Building
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

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The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
employer.  Minorities and women are especially encouraged to apply.  The
University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or
employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual
orientation or veteran status. 

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