Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Tenure Track), Contemporary Dance Forms
Department of Dance
College of Fine and Applied Arts
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Job Summary
The Department of Dance (https://dance.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty appointment in Dance at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level. We seek a candidate with a focused choreographic research trajectory and accomplished track record of performing and teaching in forms beyond the traditional Euro-American canon. Examples include, but are not limited to, dance practices rooted in Indigenous, Latina/o, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, East Asian, and South Asian communities. This position will be a 100% time 9-month contract appointment with 40% time teaching, 40% time research, and 20% time service breakdown. Responsibilities include teaching a 2/2 or 2/3 load, advising students, participating in academic advising and governance, choreographing and/or directing departmental productions and continuing a high profile of nationally and internationally recognized creative research.
The UIUC Department of Dance is one of the oldest and most well-respected Dance Departments in our nation leading the field on the forefront of progressive pedagogical invention. Our vibrant guest artist program and accomplished faculty connect our students directly with the professional fields of Dance all over the world. The mission of Dance at Illinois is to contribute to Dance's positive impact on the world, as a distinctive generator of new knowledge and as a vital cultural agent and signifier. We activate the power of Dance to root out historically unbalanced, hierarchically oppressive perspectives and are committed to investigating the dynamic intersections between research and teaching in academic, professional, and community settings.
The College of Fine and Applied Arts (FAA) is singular in the nation for its diversity, innovation and breadth. Its mission is dedicated to the advancement, practice, and understanding of the arts, and its central focus is the synergy between research and the preparation of students for professional careers in the creation and interpretation of the environmental, visual, and performing arts. Deeply related to that focus is the commitment to elevate and sustain the study of the arts as both a necessary mode of understanding and a vibrant expression of human experience within the local, national, and international communities.
The college comprises the Schools of Music, Architecture, and Art and Design; Departments of Dance, Landscape Architecture, Theatre, and Urban and Regional Planning; the Sustainable Design program; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Krannert Art Museum; and Japan House. FAA employs more than 660 faculty members and staff, including more than 150 tenure system faculty members, and more than 1,850 undergraduate and 635 graduate students enroll in FAA's more than 30 majors and 10 minors.
Minimum Qualifications
Department of Dance
College of Fine and Applied Arts
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Job Summary
The Department of Dance (https://dance.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty appointment in Dance at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level. We seek a candidate with a focused choreographic research trajectory and accomplished track record of performing and teaching in forms beyond the traditional Euro-American canon. Examples include, but are not limited to, dance practices rooted in Indigenous, Latina/o, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, East Asian, and South Asian communities. This position will be a 100% time 9-month contract appointment with 40% time teaching, 40% time research, and 20% time service breakdown. Responsibilities include teaching a 2/2 or 2/3 load, advising students, participating in academic advising and governance, choreographing and/or directing departmental productions and continuing a high profile of nationally and internationally recognized creative research.
The UIUC Department of Dance is one of the oldest and most well-respected Dance Departments in our nation leading the field on the forefront of progressive pedagogical invention. Our vibrant guest artist program and accomplished faculty connect our students directly with the professional fields of Dance all over the world. The mission of Dance at Illinois is to contribute to Dance's positive impact on the world, as a distinctive generator of new knowledge and as a vital cultural agent and signifier. We activate the power of Dance to root out historically unbalanced, hierarchically oppressive perspectives and are committed to investigating the dynamic intersections between research and teaching in academic, professional, and community settings.
The College of Fine and Applied Arts (FAA) is singular in the nation for its diversity, innovation and breadth. Its mission is dedicated to the advancement, practice, and understanding of the arts, and its central focus is the synergy between research and the preparation of students for professional careers in the creation and interpretation of the environmental, visual, and performing arts. Deeply related to that focus is the commitment to elevate and sustain the study of the arts as both a necessary mode of understanding and a vibrant expression of human experience within the local, national, and international communities.
The college comprises the Schools of Music, Architecture, and Art and Design; Departments of Dance, Landscape Architecture, Theatre, and Urban and Regional Planning; the Sustainable Design program; Krannert Center for the Performing Arts; Krannert Art Museum; and Japan House. FAA employs more than 660 faculty members and staff, including more than 150 tenure system faculty members, and more than 1,850 undergraduate and 635 graduate students enroll in FAA's more than 30 majors and 10 minors.
Minimum Qualifications
- An MFA degree and/or equivalent long-term professional experience in the field
- A well- defined creative research mission and portfolio of accomplishment
- Experience teaching in the Higher Ed context
Social justice dimensions are a key component of our program offerings. To increase this profile, we strongly encourage applications from individuals with demonstrable commitments to equity and social justice through teaching, research, and/or community engagement, and a reflective approach to transforming the discipline with respect to inclusion and anti-racism. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who bring experience working with under-represented and underserved…