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Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture

Employer
Ryerson University
Location
Canada
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Dec 4, 2021

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The School of Image Arts is hiring a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture, with demonstrated scholarship in lens-based and emerging media.

We especially welcome applicants who bring complementary strengths in fields such as Indigenous art and visual cultures, Global Art (decolonized perspectives), curatorial practices (including community based), and emerging or underrepresented areas of scholarship.

The candidate must have teaching experience at the university level and will be charged with the redesign of fundamental courses such as Art and the Classical Tradition and Art in the Modern World to better reflect current conversations around representation.

The candidate would have the potential to play a leadership role within the school’s Film + Photography Preservation and Collection Management MA program.

For details of the posting, please visit: https://hr.cf.ryerson.ca/ams/faculty/preview.cfm?posting_id=542949

Applications received by January 14, 2022 will be guaranteed consideration. Posted until filled. The appointment is effective July 1, 2022, subject to the candidate’s availability and final budgetary approval. 

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Ryerson University

Located in downtown Toronto, the largest and most culturally diverse city in Canada and on the territory of the Anishinaabeg, Onkwehonwe-Haudenosaunee and the Wendat Peoples, the School of Image Arts in The Creative School at Ryerson University* invites applications for three full-time tenure-track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are particularly interested in candidates whose creative work addresses the experiences of marginalized and under-represented communities, and those who bring to teaching concrete strategies for supporting gendered, racialized, diasporic, disability, and/or 2SLGBTQ+ perspectives. Candidates must demonstrate evidence of recent and relevant scholarly/creative output, and innovative scholarly, research and creative (SRC) activity that is externally funded and that produces cutting-edge, high quality results.

* In August 2021, the University announced that it would begin a renaming  process to reconcile the legacy of Egerton Ryerson for a more inclusive future.  To learn more, see The Next Chapter.

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The School of Image Arts     

Part of The Creative School, The School of Image Arts’ unique and professionally-focused undergraduate curriculums support programs in Photography Studies, Film Studies and Integrated Digital and it is recognized as a national and international centre for creative innovation in the study, production, exhibition, and research of film, photography and digital arts. The School shares the same building with the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) which is dedicated to the research, teaching and exhibition of photography. Its interdisciplinary graduate programs include the PhD in Media and Design Innovation, the Scriptwriting and Story Design (MFA), the Film + Photography Preservation and Collection Management (MA) program, and the MFA in Documentary Media. The School’s programs are designed to lead to careers in film, photography, new media, communications, education, culture, and broader creative industries. The School’s full-time faculty is made up of dedicated individuals with established professional, research, and teaching experience in their respective areas of expertise. 

 

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