Assistant Professor - School of Media Arts and Design

Assistant Professor - School of Media Arts and Design The School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD) at James Madison University (JMU) invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in August 2027. We seek a teacher-scholar whose instructional interests and research or creative practice engage visual communication, media literacy, mass media, audiences, storytelling, and culture. SMAD's distinctive undergraduate major prepares students to become well-rounded multimedia storytellers and offers four concentrations: Creative Advertising, Digital Video and Cinema, Interactive Design, and Journalism. SMAD also boasts one of the nation's finest media production facilities that offers instructional workspaces for creating video, audio, graphics, animation, websites, and apps. The school has about 700 undergraduate majors and more than 20 faculty members, who represent a blend of professional and academic interests. SMAD seeks a student-focused colleague to teach a core course in visual literacy and culture, as well as some combination of foundations and critical analysis courses. Depending on the successful candidate's experience, this position could also allow for teaching in one of SMAD's four concentrations or in a media-centric General Education course. The teaching load is 3 courses each semester. Tenure-track faculty must have an active creative or scholarly agenda that may include juried production activity or peer-reviewed academic research. Tenure-track faculty also have service responsibilities and opportunities within the department, college, and institution. An MFA, Ph.D., or other terminal degree is required; ABD applicants with the degree near completion will be considered with the requirement that the terminal degree be conferred no later than August 2027. The preferred candidate will have college-level teaching as well as professional industry experience in media or related fields. Interested candidates must complete the online application on the JMU career site and provide the following: -Cover letter -CV -Names and contact information for three references JMU's Dual Career and Community Resources Program is available for candidates that will be relocating to the area. For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2OTF1NG.