Elizabeth Lee Moody Junior Professorship
DEPARTMENT OF ART
The Department of Art at Rice University is seeking to hire at the Assistant Professor rank a full-time, tenure-track artist and art educator with primary interests in the production of film, video, and/or new media forms. The successful applicant for this Elizabeth Lee Moody Junior Professorship will have a proven record of community and civic engagement.
The successful candidate will be an actively exhibiting practitioner with a record of teaching excellence. They will be responsible for teaching four undergraduate courses each academic year (two fall and two spring); engaging and maintaining an active and ambitious program of research and creative scholarship; participating in student advising and mentoring; and serving on department and university committees. The candidate will collaborate on the administration and coordination of undergraduate curricula in Art as well as a new major in Media Studies (which is anchored across departments in the School of Humanities). Candidates must have an MFA; significant organization, communication, and collaborative skills; and a substantive understanding of the general history, practice, theory, and criticism of contemporary film/video/new media art. We are particularly interested in candidates who demonstrate through their teaching, mentorship, and practice a commitment to the uplifting of historically underrepresented perspectives and who bring multilingual, international and/or cross-cultural perspectives to their work.