University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Assistant Professorship in Korean Media Studies

Deadline:

October 1

Length/Track:

Tenure track

Description:

Joint appointment in the “Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature” (tenure home in the first. “Applicants’ research and teaching should focus on Korean media and culture, including digital and networked media and art, video games, platforms, popular music, television, and/or film. The departments are particularly interested in applicants with a global, comparative, or transnational perspective who are engaged in the critical analysis of media’s role in society. Secondary fields must include at least two among environmental humanities, media/digital theory, archival historiography, multimedia curating, the philosophical and theoretical literatures on the relation between aesthetics and politics, marxist critique of political economy, critical theory in a global context, comparative East Asian popular culture, the Cold War, feminism and queer/trans theory, postcolonial studies, and the study of migration and diaspora.”

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