Year: 2005

The Department of Digital Technology & Culture at Washington State University invites applications for an upper-level Assistant or Associate Professor of Digital Technology and Culture on the Vancouver campus located in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, beginning August2006. The successful candidate will be expected to direct theinterdisciplinary program in Digital Technology and Culture, teach undergraduate and graduate classes with a 2-2 teaching load, pursue an active research agenda, and engage in service activities/administrative activities for the department, university, and community. We seek someone to teach in the interdisciplinary B.A. degree program in Digital Technology and Culture, (currently administered by the Department of English) a liberal arts-based curriculum exploring relationships between technology and meaning-making both in historical and contemporary contexts. Terminal degree in appropriate field required. Discipline open, with special consideration given to candidates with proven national research profile in digital technology as social practice and teaching experience in higher education. A focus on and concern for diversity is highly desired. Concentrations might include informatics, media studies, digital diversity, artificial intelligence, among other fields. A demonstrated potential for excellence in both teaching and research isrequired. The appointment is at the upper-level Assistant or Associate Professor rank. The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Deadline for submission of applications will be December 15, 2005.

Candidates must provide TWO copies of each of the following: letter of application summarizing qualifications, current curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, graduate transcripts, and teaching evaluations (if available). Send application materials to:

Linda Weidmann, Clerical Manager
Digital Technology and Culture Search Committee
Washington State University Vancouver
14204 NE Salmon Creek Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98686-9600

The Department of Writing at Ithaca College announces a search for a full-time, tenure-eligible position in creative writing (fiction) beginning August 16, 2006. Qualifications: MFA or Ph.D. in creative writing, or equivalent degree by June 2006; a documented publishing record in fiction; and college-level experience teaching fiction and first-year composition. Ability to teach in one or more of the following areas required: advanced composition, creative nonfiction, electronic or experimental fiction, gender-based writing, introductory creative writing, personal narrative, poetics, or writing from cultural experience. Offering one of the nation’s few comprehensive bachelor’s degrees in writing, we encourage our 170 majors to question and transcend the boundaries of genres, even as we provide important service courses to the college. As we continue to enrich our curriculum, we seek a colleague who will help us prepare students to write for and contribute to a global society. To learn more about our department, faculty, and curriculum, visit: http://departments.ithaca.edu/writing. Interested individuals should apply online at icjobs.org and attach a cover letter and a vita.

The John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University invites applications for two residential postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities, each awarded for the one-year period beginning July 1, 2006 and ending June 30, 2007, and each offering a stipend of $40,000 plus full fringe benefits and access to a modest pool of research funds.

Of particular interest to Electronic Literature Organization members is the fellowship awarded in the Franklin Humanities Institute Franklin Seminar on “Interface.” This yearlong postdoctoral fellowship is funded by the Franklin Humanities Institute in collaboration with a national consortium called HASTAC (the Humanities Arts Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). The fellowship is designed to support work on a scholarly research project, software design project, work of interactive digital art, or game-based learning project that address themes explored in the seminar. The post-doctoral fellow will attend the regular weekly meetings of the seminar, and either teach one class of her/his design in Duke University’s Information Studies & Information Sciences (ISIS) Program or undertake a “course equivalent” project, which may include participating in a collaborative project with students and faculty, and which will require the same amount of work as would a conventional teaching experience.

For full details, see the 2006-2007 Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships page at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.