Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
Television Studies
The University of Notre Dame, Department of Film, Television, and
Theatre, invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Television
Studies. This faculty member will be responsible for contributing to the
department's growing concentration in this area. Duties include teaching
four courses per year, carrying out a rigorous program of research
leading to publication contributing department and university service,
and mentoring undergraduate majors. There also will be the opportunity
to participate in the interdisciplinary PhD in Literature program and in
the Graduate Minor in Screen Cultures. There are about 200 undergraduate
majors, including 80 or more concentrating in Television.
The successful candidate must have a PhD in television, new media or
cultural studies and teaching experience in critical studies approaches
to television. S/he will be invited to teach classes in the history,
criticism and aesthetics of the medium, in television genres and
narratives, in stardom, international television, or television in
relation to political and social issues. We particularly welcome
applicants who would like to help develop our nascent program in new media.
The Search Committee's deliberations will begin on Monday, October 4,
2010. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. The
appointment begins Tuesday, August 23, 2011. The University is on the
semester system.
The Department of Film, Television, and Theatre is a dynamic department
with eighteen regular faculty. The liberal arts oriented curriculum
presents a broad exposure to screen cultures as an intellectual endeavor
as well as an aesthetic and practical one, and offers courses that
appeal to a wide range of students, including non-majors. The department
resides in the Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, dedicated in
2004. We present the annual Notre Dame Student Film Festival in the
Browning Cinema, a superb screening facility (see
http://performingarts.nd.edu). Our extensive alumni network enables us
to bring to campus many guest lecturers who provide research and
professional contacts to faculty and students.
The University of Notre Dame is an international Catholic research
university with a strong institutional commitment to racial, cultural,
and gender diversity. Notre Dame welcomes applications from women,
people of color, or those attracted to a university with a Catholic
identity (see http://www.nd.edu/). The benefits packages are competitive
(see http://hr.nd.edu/benefits/summary-information/benefit-summaries/).
To apply, please send a curriculum vitae and a letter of application in
a PDF, DOC or DOCX format to: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. The letter
should include statements about the candidate's teaching aims and
scholarly work, a comment on why the candidate is interested in a
position at Notre Dame, and the names and e-mail addresses of three
references.
Donald Crafton, Chairperson
Department of Film, Television, and Theatre
230 DeBartolo Performing Arts Center
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-7054
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