[Jobs] Fwd: [Air-L] Faculty position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

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> From: James Watt <wattj at rpi.edu>
> Date: September 23, 2007 10:39:17 AM CDT
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] Faculty position at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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> Please pass this on to anyone you think might be
> interested, especially graduate students completing their degrees  
> this year.
>
>
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> School of Humanities and Social Sciences
> Department of Language, Literature and Communication
> Tenure Track Junior Faculty Position in Communication and Technology
>
> The Department of Language, Literature and
> Communication seeks a strong scholar/researcher
> in communication and technology. We are
> especially interested in candidates whose focus
> complements faculty strengths in games studies,
> human-computer interaction, or new media studies
> from the perspective of current communication
> theory and research methods. Candidates are
> expected to develop a substantial program of
> research leading to peer-reviewed publication and
> external funding. Teaching opportunities will be
> at the undergraduate and graduate level with the
> typical teaching load set at two courses per
> semester. Our flexible program allows faculty to
> devise and teach courses related to individual
> scholarly interests. The candidate should show
> evidence of strong promise in teaching and scholarship
>
> The successful candidate will be expected to
> contribute to a multidisciplinary mission in
> communication in technologically mediated
> contexts that draws upon communication studies,
> human-computer interaction, digital rhetoric,
> technical communication, new media studies, and
> graphic design. The department has just added an
> interdisciplinary B.S. in Games and Simulation
> Arts and Sciences and an M.S. in Human Computer
> Interaction to a program portfolio that includes
> one of the top-ranked Ph.D.’s in Communication
> and Rhetoric in the country and a joint B.S. in
> Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication. The
> department also makes substantial contributions
> to teaching in a B.S. and M.S. in Information
> Technology. Faculty and students have access to
> the Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory
> (http://www.sbrl.rpi.edu) and other Institute
> research facilities. More information about the
> department is available at http://www.llc.rpi.edu.
>
> Rensselaer was named one of the “New Ivies” by
> the 2007 Kaplan/Newsweek “How to Get into College
> Guide," a list of elite colleges whose first-rate
> academic programs, combined with a population
> boom in top students, have fueled their rise in
> stature and favor among the nation’s top
> students, administrators, and faculty  edging
> them to a competitive status rivaling the Ivy
> League. Rensselaer is a U.S. News and World
> Report top-50 university with approximately 5000
> undergraduate and 2500 graduate students. It is
> located in the emerging "Tech Valley" region of
> the Hudson River Valley with New York City,
> Boston, and Montreal only a few hours away. The
> region is known for its quality of life. Outdoor
> recreation opportunities in the Adirondack and
> Berkshire Mountains are only an hour or so away.
> The area boasts affordable Victorian architecture
> and is a cultural center for the arts. When it
> opens in October, 2008, Rensselaer’s EMPAC  the
> Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
> will provide unsurpassed facilities for creative
> exploration and for research linking art and technology.
>
> Appointment begins August 15, 2008. Review of
> applications will begin October 1, 2007 and will
> continue until suitable candidates are
> identified. Application letter, current c.v.,
> writing samples, evidence of teaching excellence,
> and three letters of recommendation should be sent in hardcopy to:
>
> James P. Zappen, Search Committee Chair
> Department of Language, Literature, and Communication
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> 110 8th Street
> Troy, NY 12180
>
> Email: zappenj at rpi.edu
> Telephone: (518) 276-8117
> Fax: (518) 276- 4092
>
>
>
>
>
> ========================================================
> James H. Watt
> Professor of Communication
> Director, Social and Behavioral Research Laboratory (http:// 
> www.sbrl.rpi.edu)
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> 110 8th Street, Sage Lab 4518
> Troy, NY 12180-3590
> email: wattj at rpi.edu
> voice: (518) 276-4130 or 276-2784
> fax:   (518) 276-3740
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Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,  
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee  
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)

Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a  
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,  
think. --Byron