Visiting Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies/Performance Studies

Position: Full-time, 9 month, visiting faculty position (non-tenure track)
Date of Expected Hire: August 16, 2021
Salary: Competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

The School of Theatre and Dance seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies/Performance Studies. The successful candidate will work with undergraduate and graduate theatre artists in a variety of content areas related to theatre history, dramaturgy, and performance studies.The School is especially interested in applicants with any of the following areas of specialization that may include: Black, Latinx, Asian/Asian American, or Indigenous American theatre/performance. The position entails active participation in our learning community while finding innovative ways to engage in critical discourse across the arts and other disciplines.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for equity on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Responsibilities:

• Teach in the School’s undergraduate and graduate curricula. Courses may include the following: Theatre History, Dramaturgy, Script Analysis, Directing, Autobiography in Literature and Performance, seminars in candidate’s area of specialization.
• Advise BA and BFA senior projects and MFA thesis projects.
• Serve on School, College, and University committees as assigned.
• Maintain active national and international research and publication profile in area(s) of specialization.
• Opportunity to direct or serve as production dramaturg in the mainstage season when appropriate and/or advise student dramaturgs as part of the mainstage season.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications: PhD or MFA in theatre, performance studies, or closely related field. Evidence of success in promoting an environment that advances access, equity, and inclusion.

Preferred Qualifications: The successful candidate will bring to the position:
• Experience teaching theatre history and/or dramaturgy at the university level.
• Professional experience as a production dramaturg and/or published scholarship in theatre history or performance studies
• Engagement in the field consistent with the expectations of a research-focused institution.
• Demonstrated aptitude for working toward structural and strategic change in relationship to antiracism and access, equity, and inclusion.
• Strong organizational, management, and communication skills.