Assistant Professor in Dance

Job description

Description Scripps College, a women’s liberal arts college with a strong interdisciplinary tradition, invites applications for a tenure track dance position at the rank of assistant professor, which will begin July 1, 2023. The Scripps Dance program has two full-time faculty and several part-time instructors. It offers a B.A. degree with a major or minor in Dance. All Scripps Dance classes strive to place course material in its socio-cultural and historic context. The department seeks a contemporary dance artist with embodied expertise in a non-western dance form to teach dance practice courses and dance composition. The preferred candidate will also have experience in at least one of the following areas: somatics, critical dance studies, or dance technologies. The candidate will have demonstrated a commitment to fostering equity and inclusivity in their teaching, and an ability to make cross-disciplinary connections in their course content. Additional responsibilities include producing dance concerts, advising senior thesis projects, participating in the college’s Core Curriculum in Interdisciplinary Humanities, serving as department chair in rotation with other fulltime faculty...