Assistant Professor of Transmedia/Film Tenure Track

The Syracuse University Department of Transmedia seeks a filmmaker for a tenure-­track position in a well‐established and respected film program offering both BFA and MFA degrees in Film. Our new faculty member will be a production‐oriented filmmaker with a deep knowledge base in digital cinema workflows as well as super16 film production. Particular areas of interest are cinematography, lighting, and editing. New faculty will teach a standard 3/2 load (three courses one semester, two the other) primarily in the Film program, with some assignment in Video or Transmedia Core depending on expertise and qualifications. The faculty member will bring production expertise directly to the classroom and help design new courses based on his/her own research and practice. We look forward to our new faculty member sharing his/her unique vision with the program and department. The workload will be split between (40%) teaching, (40%) research, and (20%) service. For service, the faculty member will participate on committees in the department, college, and/or university and help with student advising, and community engagement. Transmedia actively seeks diverse voices and colleagues  who offer fresh perspectives. Our principle question is, “how will you stretch our understandings,” not “how will you conform to what we already know.”
The Department of Transmedia is a major academic center for the education of  media arts professionals. Our programs offer students rewarding studio experiences in well-equipped facilities, simultaneously integrated with rigorous academic studies and challenging curricula in media arts history as well as comprehensive and diverse theory and contemporary issue courses. The department comprises four BFA and four MFA programs in Art Photography, Art Video, Computer Art and Animation, and Film with 14 full-­‐time faculty and approximately 250  undergraduate and 30 graduate students. In addition, our TRMCore program serves as a foundation and multidisciplinary hub for all undergraduate curricula within the department. Syracuse University is a private, coeducational and residential university. Its full-time, main campus enrollment of 11,000+ undergraduates and 4,000+ graduate students represent the United States, about 100 foreign countries and varied  economic and social backgrounds. The university contains nationally recognized  programs in citizenship and mass communication.
For more information on the university, please visit http://www.syr.edu. Syracuse University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity  employer. To apply, see  http://www.sujobopps.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=190943