The University of Washington School of Drama (SoD) is hiring one assistant professor, tenure-track position in Sound Design to begin September, 2023. This is a full-time position with a 9-month service period. The teaching will be within both undergraduate and graduate programs.
The successful candidate will be expected to utilize the tools of sound, music, and aural composition to tell stories via performance in three-dimensional space, and to teach the foundations of sound design and aural storytelling and mentor students in sound design. Positive factors for consideration include, but are not limited to
- Candidates who are visionary artists and teachers working at the forefront of their design field(s).
- Candidates who are actively engaged in multiple design disciplines, whose creative practice is interdisciplinary, who come with strong backgrounds in collaborative practice, whose work experience includes devising, trans-medial or mixed reality performance practices, and/or embraces non-traditional and traditional approaches to staging and design.
- The ability to teach music composition, sound editing/mixing, and/or projection design.
The School of Drama is committed to building and supporting a multicultural community that fosters equity, diversity, inclusion, and access. We aim to embed engagement for our faculty, staff, and students with the ways that race, gender identity, sexuality, ability, class, and ethnicity intersect with and shape the human experience, both inside the educational experience and outside of it. The successful candidate will be expected to fulfill our commitment to equity and inclusion and have the confidence to effectively engage with students, staff, and community from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Our faculty and staff are expected to understand and embrace our commitment to respecting and representing diverse ideas, races, genders, sexualities, abilities, cultures, religions, and traditions, and to interrupt behaviors that hinder our work towards anti-racism and our diversity and inclusion efforts. Black, Indigenous, People of Color and members of other under-represented groups are encouraged to apply for this position.
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