The College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) seeks multiple, tenure-track colleagues (assistant professor rank) with a focus in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to scholarship and/or research-based practice in visual, media-based, and/or performing arts of the United States. Rank and salary commensurate with experience. Position requires relocation to Austin, TX. We are specifically invested in deepening our engagement with underrepresented archives, methods, and repertoires within the United States, inclusive of perspectives from Rural communities, Young makers and audiences, Indigenous, Afrodiasporic, Mexican American and Latinx artistic practices. The committee welcomes transnational, hemispheric, circum-Atlantic, and global frameworks, and methodologies.  

This interdisciplinary cohort hire is intended to impact the curricula, research profiles, and culture of more than one department/school in the College of Fine Arts. They will introduce innovations to the study of creative expression that intersect with complementary disciplines; for example, religious studies, youth studies, ethnography/anthropology, practice as research, new media/genre studies, technological arts and ethics, science and art, cultural/race/ethnic studies, disability studies, and transnational studies. We invite applications from academics and practitioners whose teaching, scholarship, and creative activity explore forms of creative practice not necessarily aligned with traditional institutions or methodologies. 

ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS 

The College of Fine Arts consists of the following departments/schools: 

The Department of Art and Art History 

Art Education 

Art History 

Studio Art 

The Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies

Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music 

Music and Human Learning 

Musicology/Ethnomusicology 

Performance 

Theory/Composition 

Jazz Studies

The Department of Design

The Department of Theatre and Dance 

Dance 

Drama and Theatre for Youth and Communities 

Live Design and Production 

Performance as Public Practice 

Playwriting and Directing 

Required Qualifications: 

• Terminal degree in field
• Capacity to respond in pedagogically productive ways to the learning needs of students from varying backgrounds
• Experience teaching at the college level
• Evidence of or the potential for national or international research or practice in cross-disciplinary approaches to the arts
• Vision of what interdisciplinary arts practices can contribute to society

Desired Qualifications 

• Experience creating interdisciplinary curriculum
• Experience with digital technologies including AI
• Ability to create arts in the community
• Record of pedagogical innovation