Employment

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego (http://theatre.ucsd.edu) seeks an experienced and specialized theatre professional to teach speech/dialects in our MFA professional actor training program, as well as acting in the undergraduate program. We invite theatre artists to apply for a tenure-track faculty position within the Teaching Professor Series. The academic appointment for this position will be for an Assistant Teaching Professor of Speech/Accents, effective July 1, 2024 and instruction beginning September 2024 (Fall Quarter).

The Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego, located on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay nation, invites applicants who specialize in ACCENTS, DIALECTS and TRANSFORMATIONAL SPEECH who can teach practice-based courses in speech, accents and dialects, basic acting in our undergraduate area, and serve as vocal coach on department productions. Significant experience with a variety of voice and speech pedagogies, phonetics, heightened text, as well as non-western methods of training would be welcome. We are passionate about fostering an inclusive vision for Voice and Speech in theatre training as we move forward in the twenty-first century. As a highly ranked MFA professional actor training program, we seek to provide our students with the kind of rigorous, expansive work in the art of clear speech and transformational vocal work that will serve the needs of all our productions and prepare our actors for a wide variety of challenges in their future careers.

As a department, we believe theatre and dance are transformational art forms that have the power and promise to change individuals and society. To amplify this mission, and to contribute to our culturally diverse creative community, the department strongly encourages applications from artists who engage across a range of cultural perspectives and training modalities, including those of the global majority, LGBTQIA+ practitioners, and women.

Position includes an expectation to participate in all facets of the graduate and undergraduate acting programs. Duties include teaching, developing curriculum, coaching departmental productions, casting, recruitment, university service, and a desire to invest in continuing to build and grow within the acting area.

Given the department's attention to curriculum that includes production, we are interested in recruiting and supporting an applicant who has a practice in acting and/or directing, coaching speech and accents, and can mentor MFA and selected undergraduate students in that practice.

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego (http://theatre.ucsd.edu), located on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay nation invites active and forward-thinking dance artists, choreographers, and dance scholar-practitioners with demonstrated expertise in African and African Diasporic forms. This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position within the Teaching Professor Series. The academic appointment for this position will be for a LPSOE in the area of Dance. An LPSOE (Lecturer with Potential for Security of Employment) is equivalent in level to Assistant Teaching Professor of Dance, effective July 1, 2024 and instruction beginning September 2024 (Fall Quarter).

The Department of Theatre & Dance at UC San Diego invites exceptional dance educators and dance makers who emphasize interdisciplinary methodologies and whose research is rooted in African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and practices that are varyingly multiracial, trans-geographic and intersectional. The ideal candidate is an educator, dance maker and/or scholar-practitioner with an emphasis on dance pedagogy, who is cutting-edge in the profession, a risk-taker and a fearless collaborator. Candidates should have a clearly established, unique artistic vision, identity, voice, and praxis in relation to African and Afro-Diasporic experiences and should be ready and excited to develop educational programs in the Dance area through this lens. We welcome applicants whose practice might engage with areas of research such as: the hybridization and fusion of culturally, geographically, and historically diverse dance forms; somatic approaches (i.e., dance training, movement research, improvisation, performance, choreography, somatic practices and other forms with significant connection to the cultural production of Africa and its Diaspora); 21st-century interdisciplinary performance and aesthetics as they intersect with critical theory, social justice, and cultural, ethnic, religious and gender studies. We invite candidates whose research and teaching in dance would complement and amplify other areas of our department such as acting, directing, and design.

Faculty hired will be expected to design and teach undergraduate dance courses in the T&D Department that support and collaborate with the vision of the department curriculum, and will be expected to mentor dance students in the T&D Department. We especially welcome candidates whose professional experience, community engagement, and personal background have facilitated their understanding of and ability to better serve students from traditionally underrepresented communities in higher education. Additionally, the appointee will be expected to participate as a member of the campus community on committees at both departmental and university levels.

Position includes an expectation to participate in all facets of the undergraduate dance program. Duties include teaching, recruitment, casting, curriculum, periodic directing of department productions, university service, and a desire to invest in continuing to build and grow within the dance area.