"Assistant Professor in Production, Brown University, Department of Modern Culture and Media"

Job Details

The Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) at Brown University is hiring. We are committed to the study of media in the context of the broader examination of modern cultural and social formations. In research and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level, MCM combines the analysis of diverse texts — visual and verbal, literary and historical, theoretical and popular, imaginative and archival — with the study of contemporary theories of representation and cultural production and creative practice in a range of media. Filmmaking, video, photography, and multi-media art practice and critique are fundamental strengths of the MCM Department. Our production courses are guided by contemporary and decolonial theory making and the kinds of new media practices that are essential to making MCM a top media and cultural studies department in the country and beyond.

We seek to appoint at the Assistant Professor level, and are looking for a top creative practitioner/scholar who crosses fields of media production and cultural theory. We are particularly interested in those who focus on the Global South, the African diaspora, Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Environmental Studies, Political Critique, Decolonization, Feminist Theory and Practice, and / or LGBTQ and Queer Theory. In addition to a demonstrated publishing record and promising interdisciplinary research trajectory, candidates must be able to demonstrate production skills in media and technologies, such as in experimental, narrative, or documentary filmmaking, video production, photography, and/or sound studies.