Assistant Professor, Full-time, Tenure-Track. PhD in art history or ABD with significant progress toward PhD required. Begins August 2010. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Responsibilities: Teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and oversee individualized graduate research and creative activity. Related duties include academic advising, curriculum development, budgeting, developing and maintaining visual resources, keeping regular office hours and service to the university and community.
Required: Collaborative and creative generalist with strength in modern and contemporary art, effective written and oral skills and capacity to effectively inspire majors and non-majors. Ability and ambition to develop additional courses in area of research expertise with evidence of computer proficiency and significant and ongoing scholarly work are central.
Preferred: The university places a high priority on candidates who can contribute to the general education curriculum with core courses stressing critical thinking and a common First Year Seminar and develop and deliver art criticism or theory, non-western art or visual culture courses. Training and/or experience in online teaching, grant writing and student recruitment and retention are also valued.
Formal review of applications begins March 15, 2010, and the search will remain open until the position is filled. Applicants must submit: a) Letter of application, b) CV, c) statement of teaching philosophy, d) example of scholarly writing, e) sample syllabi, f) names and contact information for three references (no letters), g) transcripts, and h) a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of materials. Send dossier to: Art History Search (#106), Department of Art and Design, One John Marshall Drive, Marshall University, Huntington, WV 25755-2220. Candidates interviewing on campus must have official transcripts (undergraduate and graduate) forwarded by their degree granting institutions directly to the chair of the search committee.
Marshall University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. For more information about the department, visit www.marshall.edu/cofa/art or call 304-696-6760.