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Job description: Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Exeter https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=313040IG7c&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA College of Humanities This full time, permanent post is available from 1st September 2017. The University of Exeter is a Russell Group university that combines world-class research with very high levels of student satisfaction. Exeter has over 21,000 students from more than 130 different countries and is in the top 1% of universities in the world with 98% of its research rated as being of international quality. Our research focuses on some of the most fundamental issues facing humankind today. At Exeter, we integrate digital methods and practices into the heart of our Humanities research. We are fascinated by the fresh research questions, interdisciplinary opportunities and diverse new fields of study catalysed by digital research, and we host an expanding range of projects in this specialism. Above all, Digital Humanities enables us to extend research enquiries in the Humanities, to formulate new questions, to forge productive collaborations across disciplines and to deliver outputs and impacts, training and teaching, that are more accessible and more widely understood than ever before. Increased investment by the University has led to the creation of an exciting new laboratory and research space due to open in June 2017. We are looking for a leading figure with a strong international reputation to lead and shape the strategic direction of digital humanities at Exeter. Applicants will be innovative researchers with a strong track record of research funding and international quality publications. In addition to an outstanding research portfolio, you must have a distinguished track record in teaching, should be innovative in your approaches to teaching, and should demonstrate leadership in the field through participation in professional bodies and links with relevant companies and organisations. The post-holder will be based at our Streatham campus in one of the following disciplines: Archaeology, Art History and Visual Culture, Classics and Ancient History, Drama, English, Film Studies, History, Modern Languages and Theology and Religion. Applicants are encouraged to contact the PVC of the College, Prof Andrew Thorpe (tel: 01392 724396 or email: [log in to unmask]) to discuss the post further. You may also wish to consult our web site at http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/ for further details of the College. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------