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Teaching Assistant Professor in Performance Studies
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Posted: 08-Sep-23
Location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 264861
Vacancy ID: FAC0004682
Position Summary/Description:
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.
Education and Experience:
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.
Carolina rates among the nation’s great institutions of higher education, set on an historic and beautiful campus that celebrates all four seasons. Carolina’s students, faculty and staff come here from around the world, bringing varied cultural, racial and ethnic heritages that help make UNC-Chapel Hill a thriving intellectual center. We’re repeatedly ranked the nation’s best value in higher education for students seeking to earn a college degree – the University has garnered the top spot each time since the ranking’s launch in 1998.Whether you’ve just started your career, are new to academia or are a seasoned professional with assorted campus experiences to draw on, we hope you will find a great place at Carolina.
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