The University Of Denver
Assistant Professor of Emergent Digital Practices
The University Of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80285
Assistant Professor of Emergent Digital Practices
Job no:
497594Work type:
Faculty Full-TimeLocation:
Denver, COCategories:
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Arts & Humanities/Social SciencesPosition SummaryThe Emergent Digital Practices program seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting September 2025. We seek a candidate who is critically, theoretically, and creatively engaged in emergent practices and discourses from the perspectives of ethical design, just and equitable systems, pluriversal traditions and futures, and inclusivity and accessibility in digital arts and technology. We seek artists/designers/scholars whose research and output technically and critically explores online worldbuilding, interface design, networked communities, emerging information ecologies, creative AI, and/or mobile experiences including augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). This position will expand EDP’s offerings into topics related to web design, experience design, and technologies like machine learning, AI, and extended reality (XR). Applications of these design, technological, and critical skillsets may manifest in a number of ways, including such emerging platforms for content development and dissemination as online publishing, social content and experience sharing, collaboration, community building, and critical e-gaming. We are interested in candidates who will have research and/or creative practices that complement and diversify existing program strengths and demonstrate the potential for excellent teaching. We seek a colleague who will help further develop EDP’s curriculum in areas including design justice, intersectionality, and post-colonialism, and who will position digital technologies through marginalized and minoritized perspectives. The candidate whose research and practice would model diverse, inclusive, and multicultural approaches to our program, students, and the larger community will be vital to the EDP program’s ability to contribute to the University of Denver’s commitment to the public good.Essential FunctionsSustain and advance a research practice resulting in professional outcomes (e.g., publication, exhibition, performance).Teach a combination of critical cultures (seminars, lectures) and making (studio) courses for EDP majors, minors, and the University’s common curriculum. The teaching load is five 4-credit-hour courses per academic year spread over three quarters.Participate in the maintenance and updating of the EDP program, including curriculum development, administrative responsibilities, contribution to our collective creative spaces, and service to the college, university, community, and field.Knowledge, Skills, and AbilitiesDemonstrate a commitment to pluriversal design and capacity to expand EDP curriculum into relevant design-related fields of inclusive and ethical practice.Demonstrate understanding of relevant cultural issues relating to emerging media and technology practices.Demonstrate an understanding of and experience creating with a range of practices and using accessible and open-source tools in order to teach our Foundation courses in Imaging, Time-based Media, Systems, and/or Creative Coding.Demonstrate experience through their research and professional praxis relevant to the topics of focus for upper division courses for EDP majors and minors.Develop and teach courses in the common curriculum.Effectively integrate diverse and inclusive perspectives and practices into their courses.Required QualificationsMFA/PhD/MPS or equivalent terminal degree at time of application. International applicants will have a statement of credential equivalency in hand at time of application for full consideration.University-level teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship with a demonstrated potential for excellent teaching.Able to teach in more than one of the foundational areas, using the adopted digital tools of EDP.Able to teach courses that focus on cultural and critical theoretical aspects of digital technology.Preferred QualificationsTwo or more years of university-level teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.Demonstrated excellence in university-level teaching.Research or creative practice of national or international scope, documented in the CV and portfolio.Application DeadlineFor consideration, please submit your application materials by
4:00 p.m. (MST) December 2, 2024.Special InstructionsCandidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.Salary Range:The salary range for this position is $71,000-$81,000.Benefits:The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass.Please include the following documents with your application:Curriculum VitaeCover Letter (2 pages)Research/creative work statement with links to sample(s) of work (1-2 pages)Teaching statement (1-2 pages) including a substantive statement addressing how the candidate will support DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) through their teaching.Evidence of success in teaching (e.g., syllabi, sample assignments, etc.)Names and contact information for 3 professional references.Equal Opportunity Statement:The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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Job no:
497594Work type:
Faculty Full-TimeLocation:
Denver, COCategories:
FacultyDivision:
Arts & Humanities/Social SciencesPosition SummaryThe Emergent Digital Practices program seeks to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting September 2025. We seek a candidate who is critically, theoretically, and creatively engaged in emergent practices and discourses from the perspectives of ethical design, just and equitable systems, pluriversal traditions and futures, and inclusivity and accessibility in digital arts and technology. We seek artists/designers/scholars whose research and output technically and critically explores online worldbuilding, interface design, networked communities, emerging information ecologies, creative AI, and/or mobile experiences including augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR). This position will expand EDP’s offerings into topics related to web design, experience design, and technologies like machine learning, AI, and extended reality (XR). Applications of these design, technological, and critical skillsets may manifest in a number of ways, including such emerging platforms for content development and dissemination as online publishing, social content and experience sharing, collaboration, community building, and critical e-gaming. We are interested in candidates who will have research and/or creative practices that complement and diversify existing program strengths and demonstrate the potential for excellent teaching. We seek a colleague who will help further develop EDP’s curriculum in areas including design justice, intersectionality, and post-colonialism, and who will position digital technologies through marginalized and minoritized perspectives. The candidate whose research and practice would model diverse, inclusive, and multicultural approaches to our program, students, and the larger community will be vital to the EDP program’s ability to contribute to the University of Denver’s commitment to the public good.Essential FunctionsSustain and advance a research practice resulting in professional outcomes (e.g., publication, exhibition, performance).Teach a combination of critical cultures (seminars, lectures) and making (studio) courses for EDP majors, minors, and the University’s common curriculum. The teaching load is five 4-credit-hour courses per academic year spread over three quarters.Participate in the maintenance and updating of the EDP program, including curriculum development, administrative responsibilities, contribution to our collective creative spaces, and service to the college, university, community, and field.Knowledge, Skills, and AbilitiesDemonstrate a commitment to pluriversal design and capacity to expand EDP curriculum into relevant design-related fields of inclusive and ethical practice.Demonstrate understanding of relevant cultural issues relating to emerging media and technology practices.Demonstrate an understanding of and experience creating with a range of practices and using accessible and open-source tools in order to teach our Foundation courses in Imaging, Time-based Media, Systems, and/or Creative Coding.Demonstrate experience through their research and professional praxis relevant to the topics of focus for upper division courses for EDP majors and minors.Develop and teach courses in the common curriculum.Effectively integrate diverse and inclusive perspectives and practices into their courses.Required QualificationsMFA/PhD/MPS or equivalent terminal degree at time of application. International applicants will have a statement of credential equivalency in hand at time of application for full consideration.University-level teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship with a demonstrated potential for excellent teaching.Able to teach in more than one of the foundational areas, using the adopted digital tools of EDP.Able to teach courses that focus on cultural and critical theoretical aspects of digital technology.Preferred QualificationsTwo or more years of university-level teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.Demonstrated excellence in university-level teaching.Research or creative practice of national or international scope, documented in the CV and portfolio.Application DeadlineFor consideration, please submit your application materials by
4:00 p.m. (MST) December 2, 2024.Special InstructionsCandidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.Salary Range:The salary range for this position is $71,000-$81,000.Benefits:The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass.Please include the following documents with your application:Curriculum VitaeCover Letter (2 pages)Research/creative work statement with links to sample(s) of work (1-2 pages)Teaching statement (1-2 pages) including a substantive statement addressing how the candidate will support DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) through their teaching.Evidence of success in teaching (e.g., syllabi, sample assignments, etc.)Names and contact information for 3 professional references.Equal Opportunity Statement:The University of Denver is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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