Assistant Professor in Advertising Photography (9384BR)
The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences invites applicants to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position.
The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses, including classes for the Advertising Photography option within the Photographic Imaging Arts BFA. The ideal candidate is a creative assignment photographer dedicated to educating future image makers, highly skilled in lighting (studio and location), and understanding contemporary photographic practices, technologies, and trends.
The candidate’s portfolio should demonstrate professional experience with studio and location lighting for still product photography and portraits, concept and execution of assignment photography, and evidence of high-quality digital workflow from capture to output. Video capture and editing, as well as the integration of traditional and historical photographic processes alongside emerging technologies, workflows, and outputs, are beneficial and preferred.
The candidate must be dedicated to scholarship and service, including student career advisement. Ideal candidates will provide leadership and vision for the continued interdisciplinary vibrancy of the School’s BFA program, its students, and its curriculum.
Assistant Professor in Fine Art Photography (9376BR)
The School of Photographic Arts and Sciences is seeking qualified applicants for a tenure-track position housed primarily teach in the Fine Art Photography option within the Photographic Imaging Arts BFA programs and in the MFA in Photography and Related Media program. The successful candidate will teach technical and conceptual undergraduate and graduate-level digital and analog photography courses, critique courses, and studio courses.
The candidate’s portfolio must demonstrate scholarship on a national and international level; conceptual, historical, and theoretical knowledge of contemporary photography and fine art; and facility with technical digital and analog photographic processes from capture to output, including software (Lightroom, Photoshop, etc.).
The candidate must be dedicated to scholarship and service, including the ability to assist students in developing their professional skills as practicing artists. Ideal candidates will provide leadership and vision to the interdisciplinary vibrancy of the BFA and MFA programs, its students, and its curriculum.
Assistant professor of English: Interactive Narrative and Emergent Digital Media Practices (9402BR)
Q5. Position Description
The Department of English in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Interactive Narrative and Emergent Digital Media Practices starting in August 2025. Prospective candidates are expected to have earned a Ph.D. in English, Media Studies, Digital Textual Studies, Game Studies, or related field by July, 2025. We seek a candidate who is critically, theoretically, and creatively engaged in interactive digital narratives and immersive storytelling.
We are particularly interested in individuals whose area of research expertise expands the current strengths of the department. The successful candidates’ scholarly and/or creative practice will be informed by critical analysis, in conversation with literary, cultural, and aesthetic theory. Preference will be given to scholars with experience in one or more of the following areas:
– Augmented Reality (AR); Virtual Reality (VR); or Mixed Reality (MR)
– Augmented Reality (AR) book publishing
– Critical AI / AI Storytelling & Art
– Computational Narrative
– Interactive Storyworlds / Transmedia
– Decolonial Digital Storytelling
– Platform Studies
– Transformational Storytelling and Social Justice
– Interactive Narrative in Games
– Development Experience in Unity or Unreal
The successful candidate will be able to teach undergraduate courses in Interactive Narrative and Immersive Storytelling in the Department of English B.S. degree program. These courses might include studio-based instruction, making with computational media, digital media theory, and digital research methods. The position requires a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring, active research and publication or creative practice. Teaching and research are priorities for faculty at RIT, and all faculty are expected to mentor students through advising, research and in-class experiences.