Duke Kunshan University (DKU) invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in digitalmedia to begin in the academic year 2025-2026. Candidates must possess a terminaldegree (MFA/PhD) at the time of appointment. We seek candidates with expertisein immersive media, machine learning/generative AI, and/or game development.The successful candidate will have a record of teaching, research, and creativepractice in one or more of the above-mentioned areas and will be expected toteach a variety of established courses, collaboratively develop and implementnew courses in their expertise, mentor undergraduate students, and maintain anactive agenda of creative practice and scholarship. The successful candidatewill be able to teach in areas such as 3D animation, XR, game development,machine learning and generative AI, web 3.0, and creative coding.
In order to meetChinese visa requirements, prior to the position start date international(non-Chinese) candidates must have worked full-time (work experience obtainedwhile studying full-time is not considered as full-time work experience) for atleast two years in a relevant area (including post-doctoral work) afterreceiving their Bachelor’s degree, or begin their appointment at DKU within 12months of obtaining their master’s degree/Ph.D. and without having workexperience between graduation date on master’s degree diploma/Ph.D. diploma andposition start date.
DKU is acollaborative partnership of Duke University, Wuhan University and theMunicipality of Kunshan, China (https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/). Our campus provides an innovative androbustly interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts experience to a studentbody that will number 2000 students and 150+ faculty, with an acceptance rateof <8% and a student body represented by over 60 countries. We also offer adiscrete number of Master’s level graduate programs. The DKU pedagogical modeldraws on the best of Duke’s educational experience and resources to reimagineundergraduate instruction on an intimate campus setting.
Similar to the bestliberal arts colleges in the United States, DKU values dedication to teachingexcellence in a liberal arts environment, as well as a strong commitment tosuccessful scholarly engagement and research. This includes research withundergraduate students. As a whole, theDuke Kunshan faculty will have strong commitments to teaching and research, andoutstanding quality in both areas will be highly valued.
Candidates must holda Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a relevant field. Research experience at apostdoctoral level (or greater) and teaching experience are desirable, as isexperience working in an interdisciplinary setting. Applicants should provide acover letter including a clear statement of the candidate’s specific interestin DKU, a curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching statement, andthree reference letters. All materials should be submitted through AcademicJobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28165.The search committee also invites and encourages letters of nominationfor potential candidates. Nominations and questions about the positions may besent to arts-humanities-search@dukekunshan.edu.cn using the subject “DigitalMedia” as the subject line. Priority will be given to applications received by October10, 2024; we will accept applications until the positions are filled.
The DKU campus is 37miles west of Shanghai in Kunshan, and is connected to Shanghai via an18-minute high-speed train and a subway-light rail train system. DKU providesinternationally competitive compensation, housing allowance, child educationbenefits (for applicable faculty positions), and a discretionary fund orstart-up package.