[Air-L] Digital Media Culture Position: Assistant Professor Tenure-track, UC Irvine

[Peter Krapp]

School of Humanities, Department of Film and Media Studies

Digital Media Culture
Position: Assistant Professor Tenure-track

The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of 
California, Irvine invites applications for a tenure-track 
appointment at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 2013. 
We seek scholars whose research and teaching is dedicated to the 
history and theory of digital media culture. Applicants must 
demonstrate potential for excellence in scholarship and undergraduate 
and graduate teaching. Research and teaching interests should include 
a range of issues in digital culture, using theoretical models that 
consider aesthetic, social, and technological changes as cultural 
processes. The preferred candidate will be a humanities scholar able 
to teach courses in media studies and digital culture, focusing on 
theoretically engaged work on a range of issues (e.g., gaming, 
interactivity, software studies, transnational flows, avant-garde or 
alternative digital media practices, mobile and social media, 
data-mining and surveillance, media archeology et al.) Ph.D. in Film 
and Media Studies or related field must be completed before date of 
appointment.

Please apply online at http://recruit.ap.uci.edu and submit a letter 
of application, a curriculum vitae, an article-length writing sample, 
a sample course syllabus, and three letters of reference. The 
application deadline is November 15, 2012.

Please see www.humanities.uci.edu/filmstudies for more information 
about the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Ph.D. Program 
in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. For additional information, please 
contact:

Professor Peter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film and Media Studies, 
2000 Humanities Gateway, ZOT 2435, University of California, Irvine, 
Irvine, CA 92697-2435. digitalsearch at uci.edu

The University of California, Irvine is an equal opportunity employer 
committed to excellence through diversity and strongly encourages 
applications from all qualified applicants, including women and 
minorities. UCI is responsive to the needs of dual career couples, is 
dedicated to work-life balance through an array of family-friendly 
policies, and is the recipient of an NSF ADVANCE Award for gender 
equity.

http://www.oeod.uci.edu/ads/index_ten.asp#5986


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Peter Krapp
Chair, Film & Media Studies
Professor, Visual Studies/English/Informatics
University of California, Irvine, CA  92697-2435

Chair-Elect and Secretary, UC Irvine Academic Senate 2012-2013
949-824-7685 (Academic Senate office)