International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Media Studies
Brown University invites applications for a two-year International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Culture and Media, with a specialization in Global Media Studies. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the Department of Modern Culture and Media, effective July 1, 2017. The department emphasizes the theoretically informed analysis of film, television, video, new media, photography, sound technologies, and print in the context of modern and contemporary cultures.
Requirements:
- Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2017 (must have been awarded by an institution other than Brown University within the past five years)
- research should critically engage the technological and theoretical transformations and media flows that are rapidly re-situating all forms of media and social practices
- scholars challenging older conceptions of national culture, region, canons, and/or tradition are especially preferred.
Possible research interests include:
- the productions and receptions of one or more non-Western or Global South media practices, texts, and/or audiences
- the translations and transformations of globally popular genres
- media ecologies, economics, and geopolitics in an era of increasing transnational media trade
- new media “publics” and “privates,” spatialities and temporalities
- transnational media institutions and national media imaginaries
Full details on position and application process
Review of applications will begin January 27, 2017, and will continue until the position is filled.
Application: apply online and include the following at: apply.interfolio.com/39626 .
- letter of application
- curriculum vitae
- dissertation abstract or book abstract
- two sample syllabi
- three letters of recommendation
Brown University is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic global community; as an EEO/AA employer, Brown considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, gender, race, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.