[Air-L] Assistant Professor of Video Game Studies

[Arditi, David M]

Colleagues,

The University of Texas at Arlington is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Video Game Studies. I am the search chair and happy to answer any questions. Please circulate the ad to your networks.

https://uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/30094

The College of Liberal Arts, at the University of Texas at Arlington, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the broad area of video/digital game studies beginning in Fall 2025. Candidates must have a terminal degree in a field housed in a department in the College of Liberal Arts (see department listing below). This is an interdisciplinary search aimed towards building the college's research and teaching in video game research and/or practice. The ideal candidate will add to existing strengths in digital liberal arts and video game studies. Areas of research and teaching may include, but are not limited to:

  *   User Experience (UX) Research
  *   Representations (race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, etc.)
  *   Qualitative research on gamers or game companies
  *   Esports
  *   Political Economy
  *   Design
  *   Ludomusicology
  *   Digital Storytelling
  *   Platform Studies
  *   Cultural Studies
  *   Popular Culture
  *   Science and Technology Studies
Thanks,
David

David Arditi
Professor of Sociology
Director of the Center for Theory
University of Texas at Arlington