Assistant Teaching Professor in Critical Media Practices
Requisition Number:
60002
Location:
Boulder, Colorado
City
Boulder
State
Colorado
Employment Type:
Faculty
Schedule:
Full-Time
Posting Close Date:
05-Jan-2025
Date Posted:
30-Oct-2024
Job Summary
The Department of Critical Media Practices in the College of Media, Communication and Information at the University of Colorado at Boulder seeks an Assistant Teaching Professor in Documentary Media Arts who will enrich the documentary program with its commitment to cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary pedagogy and creative practices in the documentary form. Candidates should demonstrate scholarly/creative work engagement in documentary across multiple platforms from a broad and inclusive perspective. The successful candidate will provide teaching expertise in the conceptual, theoretical, historical and production understanding of documentary media arts practices.
The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Who We Are
The vision of the Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) is articulated in and through its programs that are interdisciplinary, innovative, self-reflexive, forward looking and congruent to the global paradigm shifts in media arts production, research, theory, and criticism. DCMP embraces an integrative approach in which faculty and students pursue the interconnectedness of creative practice and theory. The department’s vision is aligned with and contingent upon the rapidly changing landscape of media arts research and creative practice. It is this organic process that ensures that Critical Media Practices is a non-didactic, non-siloed, and non-reified epistemological plane that supports a living and dialectical interdisciplinary process of thinking, knowing, and doing at the intersection of arts and humanities.
Its integrative approach is supported by faculty whose research and creative practices are interdisciplinary, and whose media-arts practice meaningfully intersects with and contributes to the epistemes of cognate disciplines such Anthropology, Cinema Studies, History of Art, Emerging Technologies, Ethnic Studies, Music, Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Geography. With a focus on non-fiction and expanded documentary forms, our growing community of transdisciplinary faculty provides students a broad spectrum of formal and conceptual schools of thought, historical lineages in art practice, and cross-cultural media making traditions to create new methods, contexts, and critical approaches to media arts practice across several platforms.
The Department of Critical Media Practices offers a BA in Media Production, with subspecialities in Documentary, Sound, and Immersive and Emergent Media, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices (IDMAP), and a PhD program in Emergent Technologies Media Arts Practice (ETMAP). Certificate programs in both IDMP and ETMAP are available to graduate students from any discipline. These programs are supported by faculty members who are media arts practitioners, scholars, and scholar/artists committed to the establishment and expansion of this field of knowledge within the framework of media arts practice.
Its integrative approach is supported by faculty whose research and creative practices are interdisciplinary, and whose media-arts practice meaningfully intersects with and contributes to the epistemes of cognate disciplines such Anthropology, Cinema Studies, History of Art, Emerging Technologies, Ethnic Studies, Music, Theatre, Dance, and Cultural Geography. With a focus on non-fiction and expanded documentary forms, our growing community of transdisciplinary faculty provides students a broad spectrum of formal and conceptual schools of thought, historical lineages in art practice, and cross-cultural media making traditions to create new methods, contexts, and critical approaches to media arts practice across several platforms.
The Department of Critical Media Practices offers a BA in Media Production, with subspecialities in Documentary, Sound, and Immersive and Emergent Media, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Documentary Media Practices (IDMAP), and a PhD program in Emergent Technologies Media Arts Practice (ETMAP). Certificate programs in both IDMP and ETMAP are available to graduate students from any discipline. These programs are supported by faculty members who are media arts practitioners, scholars, and scholar/artists committed to the establishment and expansion of this field of knowledge within the framework of media arts practice.
Established in 2015, the University of Colorado Boulder College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI) is at the forefront of the revolution in communication, digital technology and design. CMCI prides itself on offering students an interdisciplinary education with a focus on innovation and creativity. Our students and faculty from six departments, an independent PhD program and the recently integrated program in environmental design think across boundaries, innovate around emerging problems and create culture that transcends convention.
CMCI strives to be a community whose excellence is premised on diversity, equity and inclusion. We seek candidates who share this dedication and demonstrate understanding of the experiences of those historically underrepresented in higher education. We welcome applications from minoritized racial and ethnic identities, ciswomen, non-normative genders and sexualities, persons with disabilities, and others who have encountered legacies of marginalization.
What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be
The successful applicant will be rostered in the Concentration in Documentary Media Practices and will be assigned a 3/3 teaching load, in addition to service to the department, and may have a research/creative work agenda.
What We Can Offer
The salary range for this position is $58,000 - $62,000 plus full benefits.
Benefits
The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.
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What We Require
- A terminal degree (MFA or PhD) in documentary production or in a related field.
- Experience teaching and advising students in University programs at the undergraduate level.
- Demonstrated ability to translate documentary experience into advancing innovative approaches to the documentary form through the dynamic application of creative documentary pedagogy is acceptable as a substitute for experience teaching at the University level.
What You Will Need
- Candidates should have a record of accomplishment in the field, as demonstrated by screenings, exhibitions, and projects in venues relevant to the candidate’s practice.
- Candidates should have strong commitment to the goals and vision of the Concentration in Documentary Media Practices and the mission of scholarship/creative practice at the intersection of arts and humanities.
- Candidates should be committed to teaching documentary production as an art form.
- Demonstrated ability to teach technical skills in documentary production across a range of modalities in the studio and the field, including film and video, audio, and/or photography. Course content may include documentary cinematography, field sound recording, photography, preproduction and production coordination, postproduction, archival research, exhibition and distribution, etc.
- Possess key competencies in the delivery of creative and innovative pedagogy to undergraduate students.
- An understanding and commitment to co-creative practices in documentary production.
- A commitment to teaching innovative approaches to narrative in the documentary form.
- Demonstrated knowledge in the history, theory, and ethics of documentary media production, with an emphasis on documentary arts, independent media, and/or social practice.
- Experience mentoring undergraduate students.
What We Would Like You to Have
- Experience teaching and advising students in University programs at the graduate level.
Special Instructions
To apply, please submit the following materials:
- Current curriculum vitae.
- Cover letter describing your interest in the position and summarizing your personal academic goals.
- Statement of Teaching Philosophy (uploaded in PDF format): Please submit a statement describing your teaching philosophy and practices as well as your approach to creating a learning environment in which students are encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas.
- Statement Describing Research and/or Creative Work (uploaded in PDF format).
- Diversity and Inclusion Statement (uploaded in PDF format): Please submit a 1-page statement (single-spaced) reflecting your experience with and/or commitment to inclusive pedagogy and the promotion of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive academic culture.
- Service Statement (uploaded in PDF format): Please submit a statement describing your efforts to strengthen communities of practice, e.g., your department, institution, and/or professional societies.
- Examples of Scholarly and/or Creative Work: Please provide one (1) link to an online portfolio of scholarly and/or creative work.
- Optional: Professional Publications (uploaded in PDF format): Please submit one (1) example of scholarly writing.
During the application process you will need to enter contact information for three (3) references. We may request letters of recommendation as the search progresses. This information will be kept confidential and viewable only by the search committee. We may request references at a later time.
Please apply by January 5, 2025 for consideration.
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Posting Contact Information
Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources
Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu