Assistant Professor – Interactive Media & Game Design, SUNY Polytechnic

SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) is New York’s globally recognized, high-tech educational ecosystem. As the world’s most advanced, university-driven research enterprise, SUNY Poly is dedicated to the goal of building a diverse and inclusive teaching, research, and working environment. Potential applicants who share this goal, especially underrepresented minorities, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Department of Communication and Humanities at SUNY Polytechnic Institute invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interactive Media & Game Design (IMGD) to start in August 2017.

Responsibilities:

• apply interactive media in research and/or professional practice, teaching courses in UI and UX design, virtual and augmented reality, instructional design, interactive audio, and/or 2D and 3D digital media
• establish a robust research agenda, and shape our new IMGD program and to help it grow into new, state-of-the-art facilities that will be available for the Fall 2017 semester

Minimum Qualifications:

• MFA or other suitable graduate-level degree in a relevant field
• demonstrated scholarly interests and/or creative practice involving the arts, design, and technologies
• demonstrated commitments to supporting and cultivating diversity in the university and/or interactive media professional environments
• PhD in a relevant field preferred.

To Apply: submit the following via the online application

• C.V.
• letter of application
• statement of teaching philosophy
• statement of research interests and plans
• contact information for three work-related references
• SUNY Polytechnic employment application
• Applicants must address in their applications their abilities to work with a culturally diverse population.

Closing date for receipt of applications: April 14, 2017

 

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