Job Opening Highlights


The University of Maryland is home to the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (www.mith.umd.edu), an applied think tank for innovative, cross-disciplinary research and teaching, with major ongoing projects funded by NEH, the IMLS, Mellon, NSF and others. MITHs international reputation makes the university a world center for research in digital humanities, media, and cultures. Other campus opportunities for faculty in digital humanities, media and cultures include the new, innovative undergraduate honors program in Digital Cultures and Creativity ( dcc.umd.edu), the new collaboratory in the Department of Art History, recently renovated facilities for digital media in the Department of Art, and thriving collaborations with faculty in the iSchool, the university libraries, the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and the Department of Computer Science.

General Requirements:
  1. Ph.D., MFA or equivalent terminal degree
  2. working with other faculty to develop the Colleges [sic] research and teaching in digital humanities, media and cultures
  3. evidence of the ability to establish a strong, active research or creative program
  4. Teaching experience at the university level is required.
  5. A willingness to direct the new Digital Cultures and Creativity Honors Program (dcc.umd.edu), and to lead that program forward in developing an imaginative undergraduate curriculum is strongly desired.
  6. Administrative experience
  7. ability to produce scholarly or creative work in digital media are also desirable.

American Studies Openings

The successful candidate for a position in the Department of American Studies (http://www.amst.umd.edu/) will demonstrate strong theoretical and methodological skills in digital humanities, media and/or cultures,with particular emphasis on linking technologies and their cultural meanings within and across diverse communities. Areas of research and teaching may focus on how new technologies and information cultures intersect with questions about dimensions of difference and identity, community, immigration, and citizenship.

Related Openings from the Same Posting

The successful candidate for a position in the Department of Communication (http://www.comm.umd.edu/) will teach and conduct research in strategic communication with expertise in the role of digital media in changing the forms, processes of organizational and societal communication, and the impact of digital media on organizations and society.  Participating in highly ranked graduate and undergraduate communication programs, the ideal candidate will contribute research and teaching expertise  in the use of digital media applications in the strategic communication field.

The successful candidate for a position in the Womens Studies Department (http://www.womensstudies.umd.edu/) will have expertise in gender and race as impacted by computers, the internet, artificial intelligence, and/or virtual worlds.  Areas of research and teaching might include digital culture, digital performance studies, games and learning, social media, the feminist technoscience research and critique concerning access to technology infrastructures.