Social Media, New Media or Transmedia

The Department of Radio, Television and Film invites applications for a position beginning fall 2012 at the Assistant (tenure track) or Associate (tenured) level in Social Media, New Media, or Transmedia with possible areas of expertise in legal and ethical issues and social media marketing. The faculty member will have the opportunity to develop new courses in his/her areas of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

The faculty member will be housed in the Radio-TV-Film Department and is one of three internally funded cluster hires in UNT's College of Arts and Sciences that focus in the areas of new/social/digital media. The faculty member will collaborate with new hires in the Department of Communication and the Department of Linguistics and Technical Communication on interdisciplinary initiatives relating to enhancing undergraduate education and community engagement.

Minimum qualifications: A Ph.D. or MFA is required at the time of appointment in New Media, Digital Media, Social Media, or Communication or a closely related discipline.

Candidates for Assistant Professor will be expected to develop a record of scholarly research necessary to obtain tenure. Candidates for Associate Professor will be expected to engage in a continuing program of scholarly productivity. Teaching load is 2/2 for an Assistant Professor, 2/3 for an Associate Professor.

Applicants must apply online; to do so, click here. Please attach or upload: cirriculum vita, cover letter, list of names and contact information (including e-mail) of three references and a statement of research interests.

Review of applications will begin November 1st and remain open until the search is closed.

For more information, contact Search Committee Chair Eugene Martin at Eugene.martin@unt.edu.

UNT is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a community of some seven million residents and the nation's fifth largest media market. The university has more than 36,000 students. UNT is an emerging research university of 50 PhD and 111 Masters Degree programs, and was ranked in the top 10 "Up and Coming" public national universities by US News and World Report in 2009.

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