Gender/Queer/Trans Studies Funding Opportunities for Early Career Scholars

Deadline:

October 2

Length/Track:

Tenure track

Description:

“We are particularly interested in candidates who draw on interdisciplinary bodies of media theory, and may engage with qualitative, quantitative, historical, interpretive, computational, or mixed-methods approaches. Applicants’ research should demonstrate a capacity for methodological rigor and intellectual creativity, including, but not limited to:

New directions in media praxis.

New Media theory or historiography: critical, cultural and/or historical approaches to media studies.

Media forms: video game studies, television studies, sound studies, social networks, interactive media.

Media industries: convergence, platforms, labor, production cultures, political economy, network & infrastructure studies, governance, public policy.

Media & democracy: publics and counter-publics, social inequalities & justice, gender & new media, race & technology, eco-criticism, media impacts on historically underserved groups.

International, global and/or transnational media: forms, industries, audiences, practices.

New media in everyday life: audience & fan studies, smart objects, media in relation to environments and space.”

URL:

https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/17228?c=illinois&source=Higheredjobs