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From: Alan Shefsky <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Position announcement: Northwestern University
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:36:41 -0500

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMANCE STUDIES
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
TWO OPEN RANK POSITIONS (SEARCH NUMBERS S-105-06 & S-110-06)

RESPONSIBILITIES: The Department of Performance Studies at 
Northwestern University invites applications for two full-time, 
9-month, tenure-track or tenured Professor positions, beginning 
September 1, 2007. The Assistant Professor candidate should 
demonstrate the potential for scholarly and artistic excellence in 
the field; tenured candidates should have a substantial record of 
artistic and scholarly accomplishment. The ideal candidate will be an 
interdisciplinary scholar/artist who works on the transnational flows 
of performance and/or intercultural performance, including diasporas, 
migrations, transmigrations, refugees, exiles, and globalization 
broadly, taking into consideration issues of race, gender, class, 
sexuality, and ethnicity. The applicant must be a master teacher both 
at the undergraduate and graduate levels and have an interest in 
developing new courses relating to her/his own interests and the 
department's needs. Ability to teach one or more of the following 
courses would be most welcome: Performance of Non-Fiction, 
Performance in Everyday Life, Urban Festivities, Folklore, Gender and 
Performance, Languages of the Body, Ethnographic Field Methods, 
Cultural Studies and Performance, Performance Art, Studies in the 
History of Performance; Modes of Representation in Performance, 
and/or Media and Performance.  The ideal candidate will enhance other 
departments and programs across the University, which could include 
one or more of the following: screen cultures; rhetoric and civic 
culture; media, technology and society; theater and dance studies; 
gender studies; African American Studies; Diaspora Studies; Asian 
American Studies; Latin American Studies; Program of African Studies; 
Anthropology; and International Studies. Responsibilities also 
include participating in the growth of Performance Studies; working 
collaboratively with faculty both in the department and across 
departments; participating in departmental, college, and university 
committees; and pursuing professional and scholarly research and 
publication.

QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must possess a Ph.D. degree with a 
specialization in performance studies from an accredited college or 
university. Discipline of graduate training open, but evidence of 
specialization in some form of performance required. Previous 
teaching experience in related areas and the ability to relate to 
diverse students are required.

SALARY: Salary is competitive; contingent on labor market and experience.

APPLICATION DETAILS: Application materials must include an updated 
curriculum vita, detailed cover letter, and three current letters of 
recommendation, dated 2005 or later. Candidates applying at the rank 
of Assistant Professor should include a writing sample of no more 
than 25 pages.  Applicants should fully describe qualifications and 
experience, since the initial review will serve to evaluate 
applicants based on documented, relevant qualifications and 
professional work experience. The review of materials will begin 
September 1, 2006 and continue until the positions are filled. 
Materials should be addressed to Search Committee Chair, Department 
of Performance Studies, 1920 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL  60208.

Northwestern University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity 
educator and employer committed to excellence through diversity. 
Candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

-- 
Alan Shefsky, Department Assistant
Department of Performance Studies
Northwestern University
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208
847-491-3171
847-467-2389 fax
http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/performancestudies
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