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Position(s): Assistant Professor of Teaching of Acting and Playwrighting/Screenwriting

Starting Date: July 1, 2024

Salary: Salary is commensurate with education/experience

The Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Teaching in Acting-Playwriting-Screenwriting. The department is interested in highly qualified actor-playwrights-screenwriters who have demonstrated success in the current industry in one or more of these areas of expertise. In UCR’s Professor of Teaching ranks, a person is expected not only to introduce intellectual fields to students as well as train students in more advanced studies in their areas of interest and expertise, but also to foster students’ intellectual independence, creativity, and reasoning abilities, and to arouse curiosity. For promotion to Associate Professor of Teaching, a person must show evidence of excellence in teaching, intellectual leadership through publications, creative accomplishments, or other professional activity, and also demonstrate service to the department, the university, and/or the public.

Qualifications:
The Department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production is committed to culturally conscious casting and inclusive performance-making practices, which we seek to embed in the teaching of acting and playwrighting/screenwriting, and in evolving pedagogical practices. We seek instructors with an established track record of performance and writing for the performing arts, as well as university teaching and experience of curricular development.

Required Qualifications: (must be met by start date of position) Ph.D. or MFA. or equivalent experience in relevant field. Teaching experience at the university level and curricular development.

Preferred qualifications: Experience in teaching the following is desired: large-format practice-based introduction to acting classes and screenwriting classes; smaller-format advanced practice-based classes in screenwriting, playwriting, and acting including acting for the camera.

Duties: Duties will include teaching mostly undergraduate courses, mentoring and supervision of production work and/or theses and/or capstone projects, curriculum development, and service in the department of Theatre, Film and Digital Production and in the MFA in Creative Writing for the Performing Arts program. An interest in directing departmental productions is also sought. Additional duties include mentoring students and overseeing graduate and undergraduate thesis projects, involvement with the department's engagement with KCACTF, as well as consultation with fellow faculty on the department's two playwriting/new writing festivals: Playworks (undergraduate) and New Writing Festival (graduate).

UCR is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

Application Procedure: Applicants will be required to submit:

a) Cover letter (addressed to Dr. Bella Merlin, Search Committee Chair)
b) CV, including links to acting work and/or work written by the applicant performed on stage or screen
c) Writing sample of a stage or screen play (20-25 pages)
d) Three confidential letters of recommendation (all letters must be received by February 20th, 2023 submission deadline)
e) A statement of contributions to diversity that addresses past and/or potential contributions to DEI through teaching, research, professional activity, and/or service
f) 1 – 3 sample syllabi of previously taught courses and/or a sample of teaching evaluations
g) Copy of highest degree transcript
Confidential Letters are solicited via AP Recruit System Only – Applicant inserts reference names and solicits references from within APRecruit at time of application. Only completed applications that include the letters of reference may be reviewed by the committee.

Applications and materials will be submitted using UCR’s on-line application system located at https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/apply/01867
Applicants who use Interfolio may utilize a feature provided by the Interfolio Service to allow Interfolio to upload their letters directly into AP Recruit. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio refers to this as Online Application Deliveries. The following link on the Interfolio website shows how to set this up (http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062742-Uploading-Letters-to-an-Online-Application-System ).

To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by February 20, 2024.

Department Contact person:
bella.merlin@ucr.edu (Search Committee Chair)

The University of California values salary transparency and reports salaries annually in the UC Annual Wage Database. Advancement through the faculty ranks at the University of California is through a series of structured, merit-based evaluations, occurring every 2-3 years, each of which includes substantial peer input. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and/or step at appointment. See Table(s) https://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/_files/2023-24/oct-2023-acadsalary-scales/t1.pdf . The salary range for this position is $74,600 -$97,200. “Off-scale salaries” and other components of pay, i.e., a salary that is higher than the published system-wide salary at the designated rank and step, are offered when necessary to meet competitive condition.

The University of California, Riverside is a world-class research university with an exceptionally diverse undergraduate student body. UCR is a member institution of the American Association of Universities (AAU) as well as the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities (HSRU). Its mission is explicitly linked to providing routes to educational success for underrepresented and first-generation college students. A commitment to this mission is a preferred qualification.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.