Assistant Professor in Modern Culture and Media

Job description

Description The Department of Modern Culture and Media (MCM) at Brown University is hiring. We are committed to the study of media in the context of the broader examination of modern cultural and social formations. In research and teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate level, MCM combines the analysis of diverse texts — visual and verbal, literary and historical, theoretical and popular, imaginative and archival — with the study of contemporary theories of representation and cultural production and creative practice in a range of media. Filmmaking, video, photography, and multi-media art practice and critique are fundamental strengths of the MCM Department. Our production courses are guided by contemporary and decolonial theory making and the kinds of new media practices that are essential to making MCM a top media and cultural studies department in the country and beyond. We seek to appoint an Assistant Professor with a focus on Production. We are looking for a top creative practitioner/scholar who crosses fields of media production and cultural theory. We are particularly interested in those who focus on the Global South, the African diaspora, Black Studies, Indigenous S...