Year: 2005

The UC Santa Barbara English Department invites applications for the Arnhold Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship. This fellowship has a term of one year, but may be renewable for a second year. The fellowship offers recent recipients of the Ph.D. (awarded between January 1, 2003, and June 30, 2006) a unique opportunity to develop their research and teaching interests within the UCSB Early Modern Center; the UCSB Transcriptions Center for literature and the culture of information; and the UC system-wide Transliteracies Project on the technological, social, and cultural practices of online reading.

The fellowship is designed to attract a scholar who is not currently in a tenure track position and who works in some area of British literature 1500-1800 and directly addresses the material, technological, social, or aesthetic dimensions of literature as media. The Fellow’s research, for instance, might be related to such current fields as “history of the book,” “media archaeology”, or the technology of literature. We welcome candidates who have an interest in the relation between early media and contemporary digital new media supported by familiarity with some branch of digital media practice, as well as contributing to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching and service.

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The Film and Digital Media Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a tenure-track position in critical studies. Applicants with a scholarly emphasis in international film and/or media are especially desirable; candidates with expertise in other areas of film, television and/or digital media theory and/or history are also invited to apply. Requires Ph.D. in relevant field of study, with demonstrated potential for excellence in innovative research and for excellence in university teaching. Postmark deadline: November 18, 2005.

The Program in Technocultural Studies at University of California, Davis has an open-rank position open for a Professor of Digital or Media Arts in Technocultural Studies.

The program seeks an artist, media artist, or cultural practitioner in any aspect of the digital or media arts to assume the position of core faculty member in the newly established, transdisciplinary Program in Technocultural Studies. This is a position in creative production for a person of substantial merit, who is also capable of teaching courses in history, theory and/or contemporary practice in her or his field, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The applicant should be critically and creatively conversant with the practices and discourses relating to media/digital arts, documentary, community media or the fine and performing arts, and demonstrate an understanding of the social and political dimensions of cultural practice as well as the aesthetic and poetic. Familiarity with discourses of science and technology is preferred.

Qualifications: An MA or MFA and teaching at the university or tertiary level are required, while a PhD. and teaching both studies and production courses are preferred. Applicants must demonstrate the ability and willingness to work at the
crossroads of the scientific and technological disciplines with the humanities, arts and cultural studies, in a critical and creative manner. Involvement is expected and experience is preferred in program development.

For information about the position, phone 530/752-0573 or FAX 530/752-0795 or check website at
http://technoculture.ucdavis.edu

Deadline for applications: November 23, 2005 for full consideration; however, the position will remain open
until filled. Starting Date: Fall 2006