One-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Media

Colby College; Waterville (ME); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Colby College seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Media for a one-year sabbatical replacement starting Fall 2025. Qualified candidates will have an M.F.A., teaching experience, and a commitment to creative scholarship. Responsibilities include teaching courses in digital media, including sound and animation.

Qualifications

• At least two years of teaching experience at the college level.
• Active record of creative scholarship.

Responsibilities

• Teaching a total of 4 courses per year covering 2D digital processes and time-based arts.
• Incorporating equitable and inclusive teaching principles.

Skills

Adobe Creative Suite

Sound recording

Animation

Experimental film/video art

Education

M.F.A.

Job description

The Department of Art at Colby College invites applications for a one-year sabbatical replacement in Digital Media at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2025. A completed M.F.A., at least two years teaching experience at the college level, and an active record of creative scholarship are required. The teaching load consists of 4 courses/year, covering courses in 2D digital processes and time-based arts practices. Our preference will be toward candidates who have working knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite including After Effects, Audition, and Premiere Pro, and those whose practice incorporates time-based processes such as sound recording, animation, and experimental film/video art.

The successful candidate will become part of our dynamic department of art history and studio art. In addition to an extraordinary museum of art, the Lunder Institute for American Art, and a dedicated library of art and music, Colby College is currently engaged in ambitious investments in the arts with new buildings both on campus and downtown (such as the Greene Block + Studios, the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts, the Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street, and the Lyons Arts Lab).

Applicants should submit the following materials via this Interfolio link: http://apply.interfolio.com/157779

• cover letter (addressed to Associate Professor Bradley Borthwick, search committee chair);
• curriculum vitae;
• names and contact information for three professional references; letters of recommendation will be requested for finalists who are invited to campus, with letters required by March 10, 2025;
• statement of teaching philosophy and research interests that demonstrates a commitment to equitable and inclusive teaching;
• two syllabi (one introductory level, one advanced);
• 20 examples of personal work and 20 examples of recent student work.

Applications submitted by January 1, 2025 will receive full consideration.

Colby is a private, coeducational liberal arts college that admits students and makes personneldecisions on the basis of the individual’s qualifications to contribute to Colby’s educationalobjectives and institutional needs. The principle of not discriminating on the basis of race, color,age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity of expression, religion, caste, national or ethnicorigin, marital status, genetic information, political beliefs, veteran or military status, parentalstatus, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, physical or mental disabilityunrelated to the job or course of study requirements is consistent with the mission of a liberalarts college and the law.