Description
Duke Kunshan University (DKU) invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty position in digital
media to begin in the academic year 2025-2026. Candidates must possess a terminal
degree (MFA/PhD) at the time of appointment. We seek candidates with expertise
in immersive media, machine learning/generative AI, and/or game development.
The successful candidate will have a record of teaching, research, and creative
practice in one or more of the above-mentioned areas and will be expected to
teach a variety of established courses, collaboratively develop and implement
new courses in their expertise, mentor undergraduate students, and maintain an
active agenda of creative practice and scholarship. The successful candidate
will 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 meet
Chinese visa requirements, prior to the position start date international
(non-Chinese) candidates must have worked full-time (work experience obtained
while studying full-time is not considered as full-time work experience) for at
least two years in a relevant area (including post-doctoral work) after
receiving their Bachelor’s degree, or begin their appointment at DKU within 12
months of obtaining their master’s degree/Ph.D. and without having work
experience between graduation date on master’s degree diploma/Ph.D. diploma and
position start date.
DKU is a
collaborative partnership of Duke University, Wuhan University and the
Municipality of Kunshan, China (https://dukekunshan.edu.cn/). Our campus provides an innovative and
robustly interdisciplinary undergraduate liberal arts experience to a student
body that will number 2000 students and 150+ faculty, with an acceptance rate
of <8% and a student body represented by over 60 countries. We also offer a
discrete number of Master’s level graduate programs. The DKU pedagogical model
draws on the best of Duke’s educational experience and resources to reimagine
undergraduate instruction on an intimate campus setting.
Similar to the best
liberal arts colleges in the United States, DKU values dedication to teaching
excellence in a liberal arts environment, as well as a strong commitment to
successful scholarly engagement and research. This includes research with
undergraduate students. As a whole, the
Duke Kunshan faculty will have strong commitments to teaching and research, and
outstanding quality in both areas will be highly valued.
Candidates must hold
a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a relevant field. Research experience at a
postdoctoral level (or greater) and teaching experience are desirable, as is
experience working in an interdisciplinary setting. Applicants should provide a
cover letter including a clear statement of the candidate’s specific interest
in DKU, a curriculum vitae, a research statement, a teaching statement, and
three reference letters. All materials should be submitted through Academic
Jobs Online: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28165.
The search committee also invites and encourages letters of nomination
for potential candidates. Nominations and questions about the positions may be
sent to arts-humanities-search@dukekunshan.edu.cn using the subject “Digital
Media” as the subject line. Priority will be given to applications received by October
10, 2024; we will accept applications until the positions are filled.
The DKU campus is 37
miles west of Shanghai in Kunshan, and is connected to Shanghai via an
18-minute high-speed train and a subway-light rail train system. DKU provides
internationally competitive compensation, housing allowance, child education
benefits (for applicable faculty positions), and a discretionary fund or
start-up package.