Dance (Assistant Professor, Tenure Track) Department of Performing Arts

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Description The Department of Performing Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning August 1, 2022. Applicants should hold a terminal degree in dance and demonstrate a minimum of two-years’ experience teaching in a college setting. Candidates should be effective teachers and must be strongly committed to excellence in creative or scholarly research practice. We welcome applications from candidates engaged in high-quality scholarship in areas including, but not limited to performance, choreography, public scholarship, or publication. Candidates must demonstrate an understanding of the role of dance in liberal arts education and a readiness to teach coursework that is central to the BA and minor including embodied knowledge/movement courses, upper-level critical inquiry, and/or production courses as well as potentially instruct in the General Education (AU CORE) curriculum. The successful candidate will be committed to the dance program’s pedagogical value system, which is grounded in inclusivity, hosted within the dancing body, guided by creative practice as r...