Assistant Professor of Communication, Film, and Theatre
- Employer
- Allegheny College
- Location
- Meadville, PA
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- Arts & Humanities, Fine & Performing Arts, Professional Fields, Communication & Journalism
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- Tenured & Tenure-Track
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
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Tagged: Communication, Film, & Theatre
The Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre at Allegheny College invites applications for a tenure-track theatre position beginning August 2021. An M.F.A. in Acting or Directing is required; professional experience is desired. Teaching responsibilities include all levels of acting and directing. Other areas of focus may include: community-based performance, devised performance, acting and directing for film, or script analysis. The department is interested in candidates whose teaching, creative activity, and/or professional experience address social justice or questions of interest to historically underrepresented or underserved communities. Our new colleague will direct annually in the Gladys Mullenix Black Theatre, a technically sophisticated facility housed in the award-winning Vukovich Center for Communication Arts.
The department offers a BA in Theatre, situated within the college’s strong liberal arts curriculum. All Allegheny faculty participate in delivering college-wide first- and second-year seminars, in advising Senior Projects, and in shared governance through service to the campus community. Teaching load is 3/3 with an annual course release for directing; additional course releases are earned through Senior Project advising.
While primary teaching responsibilities will be in Theatre, Allegheny College has committed ongoing resources to build faculty cohorts with expertise in race, gender, and/or social justice who could contribute to the core curriculum in one (or more) of three interdisciplinary programs: Black Studies; Community & Justice Studies; and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies. This position will be in the cohort program and applicants are asked to demonstrate how their teaching and creative activity intersects with one (or more) of these fields in their submitted materials. Faculty in the cohort program will be appointed in the Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre with clearly established guidelines and evaluation processes for contributions to other program(s). The cohort program will offer professional development opportunities and we welcome teacher-practitioners who are enthusiastic to collaborate with faculty colleagues and to mentor undergraduate students in the above interdisciplinary areas.
Allegheny College is a highly selective private liberal arts college in NW Pennsylvania with an increasingly diverse student body and a dedicated faculty of teacher-scholars. We take seriously our responsibility to increase the diversity of our dedicated faculty, recognizing that diversity is an integral aspect of high quality education. Allegheny College is deeply committed to creating an inclusive community that actively challenges racism, sexism, heterosexism, religious bigotry, and other forms of bias (see Allegheny College Statement of Community). Women, racial and ethnic minorities, and members of other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Please send letter of application, CV, diversity statement (describing how you incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion in your teaching, research, creative activity, and/or service), and three letters of reference, to Mark Cosdon, Department of Communication, Film, and Theatre, Allegheny College at comft@allegheny.edu. Receipt of materials will be acknowledged by the application deadline of January 15, 2021.
Posted: October 5, 2020
Organization
Working at Allegheny College
Our Mission
Allegheny’s undergraduate residential education prepares young adults for successful, meaningful lives by promoting students’ intellectual, moral, and social development and encouraging personal and civic responsibility. Allegheny’s faculty and staff combine high academic standards and a commitment to the exchange of knowledge with a supportive approach to learning. Graduates are equipped to think critically and creatively, write clearly, speak persuasively, and meet challenges in a diverse, interconnected world.
Statement of Community
Allegheny students and employees are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful and safe residential learning community that will actively confront and challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, religious bigotry, and other forms of harassment and discrimination. We encourage individual growth by promoting a free exchange of ideas in a setting that values diversity, trust and equality. So that the right of all to participate in a shared learning experience is upheld, Allegheny affirms its commitment to the principles of freedom of speech and inquiry, while at the same time fostering responsibility and accountability in the exercise of these freedoms. This statement does not replace existing personnel policies and codes of conduct.
History - 200 Years
Founded in 1815, Allegheny College ranks among the oldest 1% of colleges and universities and is the 32nd oldest college in the United States. Perhaps as many as 100 colleges were established and failed before the Civil War. Allegheny is one of the hardy survivors that testify daily to the determination and vision of those early pioneers of higher education in America.
Allegheny is situated in Meadville, Pa., which was established in 1788 in the French Creek Valley, astride the route traversed by George Washington on his journey to Fort LeBoeuf a generation earlier. In 1815, Meadville was still a raw frontier town of about 400 settlers, of whom an unusually large number had come from Massachusetts and Connecticut. They dreamed of a college that might bring the educational opportunities of New England to the frontier. The Rev. Timothy Alden was recruited to take on the task, and two months after his arrival in April 1815, Allegheny was established-with Alden as its first president.
Within half a dozen years, Alden succeeded in attracting sufficient funds to begin building a campus, having traveled throughout the eastern states seeking support for a planned library and classroom building. The need of a building to house a library led to the construction, in the 1820s, of Bentley Hall, today a leading example of early American architecture. Designed by Alden, this handsome structure still crowns the hill on which the campus is located. It is named in honor of Dr. William Bentley, who donated his outstanding private library to the College.
Each year, as part of the Commencement ceremony, seniors march through the doors of historic Bentley Hall toward the adventures that await them. In 2015, Allegheny will celebrate its 200-year history and the extraordinary futures of the graduating Bicentennial Class of 2015.
[Contains excerpts from "Through All the Years: A History of Allegheny College"
by Jonathan E. Helmreich, Emeritus Professor of History and College Historian]
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