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Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University
Utrecht University has developed into one of Europe’s largest and most
prominent institutes for research and education. The faculty of
Humanities, with nearly 7.000 students and nearly 900 staff members,
offers an inspiring and dynamic working environment. Our research and
education programmes focus on culture, history, arts, literature, media,
language, philosophy and theology, covering the period from classical
antiquity to the present day. We pay special attention to
interdisciplinary and international collaboration, the use of new media,
and high-quality teaching and research. The research programmes are
organised in four institutes:
* Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC),
* Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS),
* ZENO Research Institute for Philosophy,
* Research Institute for Theology and Religious Studies (INTEGON).
The Utrecht University Graduate School of Humanities monitors and
guarantees the outstanding quality of education programmes for Research
Master and PhD students.
The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCS) organises and
contributes to courses in the Bachelor's programmes Theatre, Film and
Television Studies, Communication and Information Studies and Musicology
as well as the Master's programmes Comparative Women’s Studies, Film and
Television Studies, Arts Policy and Management, Musicology, New Media
and Digital Culture and Theatre Studies.
The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCS) has a vacancy for an:
Assistant Professor in Musicology and New Media/Digital Culture (1,0 fte)
Job description
The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCS) offers an
interdisciplinary and lively work atmosphere with a young, dynamic team.
Courses are taught in Dutch and English. The successful candidate will
be required to teach in Dutch after one year, with suitable language
training being provided as needed.
You will teach courses and conduct internationally visible, innovative
research within the Bachelor and MA programmes in Musicology and in New
Media/Digital Culture. Particular emphasis will be placed on the
interface between musicology and new media/digital culture. You will
supervise graduate and undergraduate theses and participate actively in
the administration of the department. A secondary research area in
either musicology or media studies, while not a requirement, will be a
distinct asset.
Qualifications
Applicants require a PhD, teaching experience on the Bachelor and MA
level, and must demonstrate affinity with the core themes of the
teaching and research programmes in Musicology and New Media/Digital
Culture. Core themes in Media studies at Utrecht are comparative media
studies, popular culture, identity and participation, communication and
technology. Musicology, while continuing to build on its inherited
strengths (early music; Dutch music), wishes to establish a new research
area focusing on music’s performative qualities, and the impact of
digital media on music.
The successful candidate will contribute decisively to the
implementation of this strategy and therefore will be intimately
familiar with ongoing debates regarding the impact of digitization on
the production, distribution and consumption of music in any of its
manifestations, combined with solid expertise in musicology. Possible
research topics include, but are not limited to: online music cultures,
internet radio stations, the impact of iPods, identity formation via
mobile phone ring tones, video game music. The successful candidate will
have an excellent scholarly reputation and form an integral part of the
global research networks in the fields of both new media/digital culture
and musicology. Research in New Media/Digital Culture is housed within
the Research Group Media Studies, research in Musicology within the
Research Group Musicology.
Both are part of the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC).
Terms of employment
We offer a two-year contract on the level of Assistant Professor
(full-time, 1,0 fte) with the possibility of tenure following a
successful performance review at the end of the second year. Salary
range: between a minimum of € 3,129.- (scale 11 of the Dutch
Universities Conditions of Employment) and a maximum of € 4,868.- (scale
12 of the Dutch Universities Conditions of Employment) gross per month
on a full-time basis.
Further details
For more information, please contact Prof. Emile Wennekes, telephone +31
(0)30 253 6320 or by e-mail: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (Musicology) or Dr Joost Raessens,
telephone +31 (0)30 253 6270 or by e-mail: [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (New Media/Digital Culture). Please
also visit our websites: www.let.uu.nl/muziekwetenschap
<http://www.let.uu.nl/muziekwetenschap>, www2.hum.uu.nl
<http://www2.hum.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/Onderzoek/projectgroepen/MG.htm>,
www.let.uu.nl/tftv/nieuwemedia <http://www.let.uu.nl/tftv/nieuwemedia>
and www.let.uu.nl/umr <http://www.let.uu.nl/umr>.
How to apply
Interested candidates should send their application materials,
preferably by e-mail, to the Personnel Department of the Faculty of
Humanities, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, to the attention of
Mrs J. Lodder, Kromme Nieuwegracht 46, 3512 HJ Utrecht, The Netherlands,
making reference to vacancy number *68812*.
Please include: application letter, curriculum vitae, and a list of
three referees that the search committee may contact. Interviews will be
held on 14 April 2008. Candidates are kindly requested to keep that date
in mind when applying for the post. Closing date for applications: *28
February 2008*.
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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