The College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Science at Michigan State University seek a group of culturally engaged digital arts and humanities scholars to join a transformative initiative to explore, interrogate, and cultivate Critical Diversity in a Digital Age. We are looking for creative, collaborative leaders in digital humanities and digital arts who think synthetically about scholarship, teaching, and creative endeavors. Applications are invited for positions in the following areas at the Associate or Full Professor level:
- Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities
- Culturally Engaged Digital Humanities/Rhetorics
- Digital History
These new colleagues will join a group of faculty and students at Michigan State University with an energetic focus on humanities questions of race, inclusion, cultural preservation, global interconnectedness, and engaged scholarship. They will be part of the Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR), which serves as an interdisciplinary catalyst for MSU scholars, artists, and teachers who work at the intersections of self/society, digital/material, technology/culture to advance leading-edge scholarship and creative activity that integrates diversity in a digital age.
Three broad mission areas shape the initiative for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age:
- To expose the limits of existing practices and structures of reality in order to interrogate the conditions under which they operate and thus to uncover what they enable and prevent
- To discern what is possible in the wake of this exposure so that we might imagine more just possibilities of engagement
- To enact practices of justice and freedom rooted in and animated by discerning critique.
This is the first of a two-phase cluster hire, seeking applications from creative, energetic, and empathetic scholars at the Associate or Full Professor level with a demonstrated record of leadership, achievement, and mentoring who will help further frame, develop, and support our Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative. Please see the full position posting for further details and application requirements.
