Assistant Professor of Digital/New Media Studies and Transmedial Storytelling, Fall 2025

Location:
UTK
Open Date:
Sep 3, 2024
Description:
The Department of English at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the field of Digital/New Media Studies and Transmedial Storytelling to begin August 1, 2025. Applicants should have a demonstrated record of teaching in media studies and of research in some area of transmedial storytelling and should demonstrate a commitment to undergraduate teaching and mentoring. Candidates may bring strengths across a range of areas, including but not limited to digital narrative studies, animation and film, short-form video, social media and platform studies, digital archiving, or games and gamification, combined with critical fields such decolonial and race studies, digital rhetorics and literacies, or new media analysis. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to chart the future of media storytelling on campus by creating new undergraduate and graduate courses within the English Department and new cross-disciplinary courses; participating on multidisciplinary teams across media and design departments; and creating transdisciplinary research and production spaces. Scholar-practitioners are also welcomed and encouraged to apply and should have a record of creative activity as evidenced by screenings, exhibitions, commissioned works, or noteworthy experience in the film and media industries. Excellence in research and teaching is required. PhD in hand or expected by August 1, 2025.

Duties include active participation in both graduate and undergraduate programs, plus significant research and publication. Salaries and teaching loads are competitive, and our endowment provides ample support for research and travel. An R1 institution and the flagship of the University of Tennessee system, UTK is a land-grant university and values engaged forms of research/scholarship/creative activity, teaching and service, and considers evidence of these commitments in the records of applicants. In addition to addressing their qualifications for the position in their application, candidates may describe how they would help promote access and inclusion in their teaching and research/scholarship/creative activities. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee is seeking candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to diversity and intercultural goals of the university.

Based in the Department of English, this position is part of a new constellation of interdisciplinary faculty positions in the UT College of Arts and Sciences emphasizing Envisioning and Narrating Emerging Futures (ENEF). We are seeking tenure-line faculty who will have overlapping interests that foster faculty development and collaboration. The goal is to bring together and invest in faculty across departments whose research, scholarship and creative work is linked through this initiative and to attract scholars who can bring different perspectives to an important issue or area.

Applications received by October 30 will get full consideration. 

Qualifications:
Candidates should have: (1) Ph.D. in English, Media Studies, or related field, in hand or expected by August 2025; (2) record of and/or potential for excellent teaching; (3) active research agenda, including publications and scholarship in progress.

Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit a letter of application, CV and 1-2 page abstract of dissertation or current project to Interfolio http://apply.interfolio.com/152629 by October 30, 2024.  Address correspondence to Professor Martin Griffin, Associate Head, English Department, The University of Tennessee, 301 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN. 37996-0430, wmg@utk.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and admission without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, and parental status, or any other characteristic protected by federal or state law. In accordance with the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the University of Tennessee affirmatively states that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, or disability in its education programs and activities, and this policy extends to employment by the university. Requests for accommodations of a disability should be directed to the Office of Equal Opportunity and Accessibility, 1840 Melrose Avenue Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-3560 or eoa@utk.edu or (865)974-2498. Inquiries and charges of violation of Title VI (race, color and national origin), Title IX (sex), Section 504 (disability), the ADA (disability), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (age), sexual orientation, or veteran status should be directed to the Office of Investigation & Resolution 216 Business Incubator Building 2450 EJ. Chapman Drive Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 or (865)974-0717 or investigations@utk.edu.