Opportunities: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Theatre & Performance (SFU's School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada) Deadline – November 4, 2024

Opportunity: Tenure Track Faculty Position in Theatre & Performance
Where: SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Canada
When: July 15, 2025
Deadline: November 4, 2024
Online Application: https://www.sfu.ca/sca/contact—us/employment.html

Description Of Opportunity:

Date posted: August 23, 2024

The School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Theatre & Performance, at the rank of Assistant Professor, starting July 15, 2025.

In 2023, the School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) launched its newly redesigned Theatre & Performance program with a stronger, experimental focus on contemporary practices in live art and performance. We seek an interdisciplinary working artist with demonstrated expertise in the broad fields of theatre and performance. Applicants must have significant creative output and experience teaching in one or more of the following areas:

+ contemporary performance and live art
+ experimental and devised theatre
+ performance based social practice
+ site responsive practice
+ movement and body-based practice
+ text for performance

The successful candidate must be able to design and teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These curricula should provide practical, artistic and theoretical contexts for the school’s expansive vision of contemporary and interdisciplinary performance. We encourage applications from individuals working in unique, emerging and underrepresented areas within the broad field of contemporary performance.

Candidate Qualifications:

• MA, MFA, or PhD in a field or discipline of relevance.
• A vibrant and continuing performance practice with significant creative output in one or more of the following areas: live art, devised/post dramatic theatre, social practice, digital/multimedia, immersive/site specific, expansive choreographic practice and/or time-based practices.
• An ability to combine creative practice with critical inquiry in teaching and researching contemporary performance.
• Experience combining a wide range of methodologies and artistic disciplines beyond traditional theatre; commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration.
• A capacity to share, clearly and effectively, the theoretical, practical, and technical methodologies and historical/social contexts of their creative research with undergraduate and graduate students.
• Experience working effectively, flexibly, collaboratively, and ethically with diverse communities of artists, educators and students across the university and local groups.
• Established interest and capability in self-sufficient, hands-on making, and the ability to guide and unify full-scale public-facing works with modest resources.

Review of applications will begin on November 4, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration applications should be submitted by this date. Please note that materials submitted will not be returned.

Simon Fraser University is an institution whose strength is based on our shared commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion. Diversity is an underlying principle of our Strategic Vision, which pledges SFU to “foster a culture of inclusion and mutual respect, celebrating the diversity reflected among its students, faculty, staff and our community.” SFU is committed to ensuring no individual is denied access to employment opportunities for reasons unrelated to ability or qualifications. Consistent with this principle, SFU will advance the interests of underrepresented members of the work force, including Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, racialized persons and women; embrace gender and sexual diversity; ensure that equal opportunity is afforded to all who seek employment at the University; and treat all employees equitably. Candidates that belong to underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.

The position is subject to availability of funds and final approval by the SFU Board of Governors. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

Personal information that forms part of an application is collected under the general authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, applicable University Policies, and the SFUFA/SFU Collective Agreement. For further details see the full Collection Notice.

For more information about our School and our university, please visit: https://www.sfu.ca/sca.html

How To Apply:

Candidates are asked to submit:

• a cover letter of application outlining creative research and practice, and whether you are legally eligible to work in Canada. (1-2 pages);
• a current curriculum vitae;
• statement of teaching and/or mentorship philosophy that includes your commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the classroom and beyond (2 pages);
• a statement of creative research (1-2 pages);
• links to 3-5 samples of creative works. Samples may include specific video or photo documentation. Please provide URLs with brief descriptions of each submission;
• the names and email addresses for three confidential referees (letters of reference may be requested at a later date).

Submit all applications by email to: Peter Dickinson, Director, c/o Suze Shore, [email protected].

Contact Email:[email protected]
Website: https://www.sfu.ca/sca/contact—us/employment.html

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