Theatre
Visiting Appointment in Theatre (Performance Studies)
The Reed College Theatre Department invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor appointment in Theatre with an emphasis in Performance Studies and Directing. This appointment is for the 2025-26 Academic year. Teaching responsibilities will include five courses, including Directing, Theatre Laboratory (which includes directing a mainstage production), a Performance Studies class, and a class in the candidate's area of expertise. The successful candidate will also be expected to advise senior theses and contribute to department service. We are especially interested in scholar/practitioners who are able to teach broadly within the discipline, who are committed to teaching undergraduates in a liberal arts environment, and who maintain an active scholarly and/or professional practice. A Ph.D. or D.F.A. is required, as is evidence of successful college-level teaching and professional experience. Reed College is a small, distinguished liberal arts institution committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship. Reed students are known for their outstanding intellectual engagement and creativity. Reed’s Performing Arts Building provides a vital facility for new initiatives in the performing arts and for fostering interdisciplinary opportunities across the college. Information about the department is available at http://academic.reed.edu/theatre/. Reed College is a community that believes that cultural diversity and inclusive educational practices are essential to the excellence of our academic program. In your application materials, please describe the ways in which your past and current creative work, teaching, mentoring, and/or community service has supported these values. In your application, please discuss the ways in which your work at Reed will support the college's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as articulated in the College's diversity and anti-racism statements https://www.reed.edu/diversity/. Please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, names and contact information for three references (who are available to provide a letter of recommendation for you at a later stage in the search process), to http://apply.interfolio.com/160888. The department will ask candidates who are invited to move forward in the search process to submit a writing sample, letters of recommendation, and a sample syllabus from a class they have taught. Questions may be addressed to Kate Duffly, chair of the search committee, at cduffly@reed.edu. Deadline: January 27 for primary consideration
Deadline: January 27 for primary consideration