Job Details
Professor
Summary
The Department of Art & Visual Culture (AVC) at Spelman College seeks an endowed professor in documentary film-making to lead its growing B.A. program beginning in August 2024. The rank of the position is Associate Professor/Full Professor.
Category
Film + Media Studies
Location
Greater Atlanta Area
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Nov 16, 2023
Start Date
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End Date
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Job Description
The Department of Art & Visual Culture (AVC) at Spelman College seeks an endowed professor in documentary film-making to lead its growing B.A. program beginning in August 2024. The rank of the position is Associate Professor/Full Professor.
AVC prepares the next generation of African American women artists, scholars, and thought leaders by offering an interdisciplinary academic education at a premiere Historically Black College and University (HBCU). It is the largest department in the Division of the Arts. In addition to the documentary film-making major, AVC houses majors and minors in art, art history, curatorial studies, photography, interactive media, and game design development.
Established in 2017, the B.A. in documentary film-making is a first at an HBCU. The curriculum underscores the value of a liberal arts education through the intersection of visual culture, humanities, and new technologies. Seniors produce thesis films and a showcase open to the public. In addition, the program prepares students for graduate school, professional industries, and community engagement. In 2024 the program will relocate to a new on-campus facility, the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts. For more information, visit https://www.spelman.edu/academics/majors-andprograms/art-and-visual-culture/documentary-filmmaking.
AVC is a department in the Division of the Arts, which includes the departments of Dance Performance & Choreography, Theater & Performance, Music, the Digital Moving Image Salon, and the Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab.
The Position:
We welcome applications from outstanding candidates with a bold, strategic vision for 21st-century documentary film-making and knowledge of emerging trends in the field, including those with new technologies. Applicants should be knowledgeable in historical and contemporary documentary film practices that reach beyond the Western canon and center BIPOC, transnational, and queer practitioners. They should have significantly contributed to one or more of these spaces.
The endowed professor will have experience in grant writing, community engagement, and opportunities to enhance student experiences in the field.
Responsibilities:
The endowed professor will provide academic and artistic leadership for the documentary filmmaking program. Their responsibilities include:
AVC prepares the next generation of African American women artists, scholars, and thought leaders by offering an interdisciplinary academic education at a premiere Historically Black College and University (HBCU). It is the largest department in the Division of the Arts. In addition to the documentary film-making major, AVC houses majors and minors in art, art history, curatorial studies, photography, interactive media, and game design development.
Established in 2017, the B.A. in documentary film-making is a first at an HBCU. The curriculum underscores the value of a liberal arts education through the intersection of visual culture, humanities, and new technologies. Seniors produce thesis films and a showcase open to the public. In addition, the program prepares students for graduate school, professional industries, and community engagement. In 2024 the program will relocate to a new on-campus facility, the Mary Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation & the Arts. For more information, visit https://www.spelman.edu/academics/majors-andprograms/art-and-visual-culture/documentary-filmmaking.
AVC is a department in the Division of the Arts, which includes the departments of Dance Performance & Choreography, Theater & Performance, Music, the Digital Moving Image Salon, and the Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab.
The Position:
We welcome applications from outstanding candidates with a bold, strategic vision for 21st-century documentary film-making and knowledge of emerging trends in the field, including those with new technologies. Applicants should be knowledgeable in historical and contemporary documentary film practices that reach beyond the Western canon and center BIPOC, transnational, and queer practitioners. They should have significantly contributed to one or more of these spaces.
The endowed professor will have experience in grant writing, community engagement, and opportunities to enhance student experiences in the field.
Responsibilities:
The endowed professor will provide academic and artistic leadership for the documentary filmmaking program. Their responsibilities include:
- articulating and advocating the program’s vision within the department, the division, and the College.
- developing relationships with graduate programs and national and local film communities
- advising students
- creating opportunities for students to interact with professional filmmakers
- overseeing thesis development and production
- engaging with Institutional Advancement to identify funding opportunities for the program.
The teaching responsibility is a total of three courses per academic year.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Applicants should be proven leaders with an artistic and intellectual vision who are accomplished documentary filmmakers from the academic academy, non-profit or commercial organizations.
- Teaching experience, a commitment to a diverse and wellrounded documentary filmmaking education, and a commitment to social justice, as reflected in their filmmaking and teaching philosophy, are required.
- Applicants with experience in new forms of documentary filmmaking should indicate this in their application.
- Applicants should hold a terminal degree in the field or equivalent professional experience.
Posting Detail Information
- Posting Number: F466P
- Open Date: 10/31/2023
- Close Date: 01/05/2024
Job Type
Full Time
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
Day
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