"Assistant Professor (Performing Arts) - UMass Boston"

The Performing Arts Department, in the College of Liberal Arts, at the University of Massachusetts Boston seeks a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Acting and Directing to begin on September 1, 2026. Primary responsibilities include teaching Theatre Arts majors in the undergraduate performance curriculum and directing one departmental theatre production annually. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in acting and directing at all levels of the curriculum, and will also direct a range of potential theatre productions. Ideally, candidates will have one or more additional strengths in such areas as fight choreography, musical theatre, and movement or voice for the actor. The position holds a 2/2 teaching load with the direction of a theater production counting as one class.

Candidates must have a terminal degree (MFA or Ph.D.), experience teaching undergraduates, and professional experience in acting and/or directing. Degree (MFA or Ph.D.) must be in hand by August 31, 2026. The position requires the candidate to demonstrate continued creative and/or scholarly activity and to build a suitable portfolio of work for tenure review. Tenure-track professors in the department advise undergraduate majors and provide service to the Program, College, University and to the profession.

Application deadline: October 31, 2025. Curriculum Vitae, official transcripts of all college degrees, and three current letters of recommendation are required. Questions can be directed to chair of the department, Professor Carrie Ann Quinn, at carrieann.quinn@umb.edu.

UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university. Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

UMass Boston is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact HRDirect@umb.edu or 617-287-5150.