Assistant Professor of Visual Studies

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Visual Studies 
Haverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Visual Studies, to begin Fall semester of 2025. We seek a practicing fiction filmmaker and interdisciplinary thinker with experience in all aspects of visual storytelling: pre-production, production, post-production, and distribution.

Qualifications
The successful candidate is a filmmaker who creates work that creatively engages with critical frameworks addressing gender, sexuality, disability, race, and/or class.  They will teach a diverse body of undergraduate students with a range of academic interests, experiences, and backgrounds.  They will be engaged in interdisciplinary work in film and digital media production, film history, and film theory as they contribute to and are studied by different disciplines in a liberal arts context.  They understand the technical and aesthetic features of camera operation, sound recording, lighting, and editing.  In addition to courses in the area of their practical and scholarly expertise, they will teach courses that anchor the Visual Studies program.  They will support our efforts to promote environmental sustainability, accessibility, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are particularly interested in candidates who have administrative experience and who can establish productive collaborations with faculty and students across disciplinary boundaries.

The candidate’s degree must be a PhD in art practice, an MFA in filmmaking, or a terminal degree in a related field.

A full-time teaching load includes five courses a year: a combination of introductory and upper-level courses, as well as courses in the Visual Studies core curriculum, which includes Introduction to Visual Studies, and the Visual Studies Capstone, the concluding course for senior Visual Studies minors.

For more information about Haverford and this position, please see here.

Application instructions
To apply for this position, candidates must submit to the Visual Studies Search Committee via Interfolio the following documents:

–A cover letter
–A curriculum vitae
–An artist statement of one to two pages
–A work sample in the form of a document with a single vimeo (or similar platform) link to no more than twelve minutes of moving image media, either several complete works, or excerpts of longer works.  No more than three works should be represented.  The document should also include a brief contextualizing paragraphs about excerpts and/or brief director’s statements about complete works. Links to complete works should be included if works are being excerpted.
–A teaching statement of two to three pages that articulates the candidate’s approach to pedagogy and mentorship.  The statement should briefly discuss two of their courses and the candidate’s efforts to foster a diverse and inclusive academic environment.
–Candidates may include writing samples of 15–25 pages representing no more than three written works, which could include excerpts of essays or other critical writings and links to complete works if written works are being excerpted.
–Candidates invited to a Zoom interview will be asked to provide two sample syllabi for courses they would be excited to teach at Haverford, one a course for beginning students, another for advanced students.
–All candidates should submit names and contact information for three recommenders. Letters of recommendation will be solicited for finalists, those invited for on-campus interviews, in December.

All application materials must be submitted by September 27, 2024 via Interfolio. 

Questions about the position or application process should be directed to: hc-visstudsearch [​at​] haverford.edu. For technical questions, please contact Interfolio directly at T +1 877 997 8807 or help [​at​] interfolio.com.

Haverford College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and providing equal opportunities and access to all individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, age, marital status, disability, or veteran status. Women, non-binary and transgender individuals, people of color, Indigenous people, and those with other or multiple historically marginalized and/or underrepresented identities are especially encouraged to apply. Haverford College and our consortial partners are located on Lenape lands.