Career Center

This position is located in the Communication Department within the College of Arts and Sciences. We are seeking an innovative and dynamic teacher to teach practice-centered courses that reflect our program's investments in embodied scholarship, artistic practice and the diverse field of performance studies. Candidates will teach a 3/3 load (six total), five of which must be undergraduate courses that meet the Communication Beyond Carolina degree requirement. Such courses must meet a minimum threshold of 2/3 course content and/or assignments that include the practice of oral communication (broadly defined). The department currently offers multiple courses with this designation (e.g., Introduction to Performance Studies, Performance and Social Change) and is currently adding the designation to more of our current Performance Studies course offerings. Candidates will also have the opportunity to develop new courses based on their own teaching and research expertise. In performance studies, we use performance as a means to critically engage with identity, technology, social structures, and everyday life. We teach students how to create original performance works, use performance as a framework for analysis, and mobilize it in the service of community engagement and social justice. Performance Studies offers students a series of interrelated courses in textual study; oral history and ethnography; and the theory of and practice in writing, designing, and directing performative events. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to be affiliated with the Program for Public Discourse and will work with other faculty around campus who are also addressing the Communication Beyond Carolina needs.

Demonstrates excellence in teaching practice-based classes in performance at the undergraduate level. Expertise in contemporary performance studies scholarship and performance practices. Research, practice and/or in artistic practice-as-research. Experience mentoring students in creating original performance works.