[SDH/SEMI Members] Assistant Professor in Literature and Media (UCSB)

[Ray Siemens]

Assistant Professor in Literature and Media
http://www.english.ucsb.edu

Tenure-track Assistant Professor.  We seek a candidate who specializes  
in literature and media technologies or cultures between 1800 and c.  
1980, the epoch of modernization from the first industrial revolution  
to the onset of the current digital revolution. We are particularly  
interested in candidates whose research focuses on writing, reading,  
communicational, computational, visual, or sensory media in the period  
between early-modern technologies of writing and reading  and  
contemporary digital technologies (two areas in which our department  
has strength).

The ideal candidate would be able to teach a range of courses in  
literature and media, as well as a literary historical field;  
contribute to the department's digital humanities and undergraduate  
specialization in Literature & Culture of Information, as well as  
intersect with the department's collaborative research and teaching  
initiatives (including the Transcriptions/Literature, Culture, and  
Media Center and the Transliteracies Project); and contribute to the  
diversity and excellence of the academic community through research,  
teaching, and service.  (Please visit the UCSB English website for  
information on our department's ongoing initiatives.)  Position  
effective July 1, 2009. Ph.D. required at the time of appointment.

Send letter of application, dossier, and non returnable sample of  
written work (20pp or less) to Literature and Media Search Committee,  
Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA  
93106 3170.

To ensure full consideration, applications should be received by  
October 24, 2008. Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged.  
The University of California is an EO/AA employer.