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Department of Media Study (DMS), University at Buffalo, The State University of New York invites applications for an assistant or early associate professor (tenure-track) with a focus on contemporary Korean media and culture, such as film, drama, television, electronic-literature, K-pop, and video games. Applicants who have an interdisciplinary approach and/or address social and environmental justice concerns in their work are especially encouraged to apply.
Tenure-track faculty in DMS have an academic-year commitment with a 2-2 teaching load (both graduate and undergraduate courses). Faculty also mentor graduate and undergraduate students and are expected to have an active research and/or creative program and contribute to service at the department, university, and discipline levels.
The Department of Media Study is one of the country’s leading programs in experimental and independent media production and scholarship. DMS is led by an award-winning, internationally-active faculty who employ a diverse range of methods to engage screen cultures, immersive media, documentary, narrative and experimental film, video and sound, gaming, interactive fiction, physical computing, software studies, and media archeology.
The department offers three BA degrees in media production, critical media studies, and film studies, as well as a certificate in game studies. In addition, we have four graduate degrees: an interdisciplinary MAH in Film and Media Study, an MS in Media Arts and Sciences, an MFA in Media Arts Production, and a practice-led PhD in Media Study.
