Theater 2008-2009

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Amherst College - Assistant Professor of Directing
(Deadline: 15 October)
 * Received Rejection Letter 11/6

Augsburg College
(Deadline December 15th)

Ball State University - Lighting/Sound Design and Theatre History
(Deadline: 17 November)
 * 2 Positions Available

Baylor University - Lighting Designer
Assistant/Associate artist/scholar

Berea - Assistant Professor/Generalist
(Deadline: 15 October)
 * Received confirmation of materials Oct 15th or so? Also, got lovely short congratulatory email from department chair when I emailed to update that I'd successfully defended.
 * Scheduled phone interview for week of Dec. 8

University of British Columbia- Theatre Studies
(Deadline: 5, December, 2008)
 * Received confirmation of materials Nov 30. Candidates to be contacted within two months after 5 December.

Brown University/Trinity Rep- Director of Movement/Physical Theatre
(Deadline: 15, August, 2008)

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
(Deadline: 10, October, 2008)
 * Assistant Prof, generalist
 * Has anybody heard anything about this search? I have to assume they've contacted a short list by this point?


 * They brought me in for an on campus visit the week of Thanksgiving, but I've not heard anything since.


 * Well, thanks for the update. I didn't even get a confirmation of materials from them. Blah.


 * I didn't receive any confirmation of materials, either! Sad that we have to look to this wiki for updates!


 * I just checked the status of my online application, and it says "No longer under consideration." I guess that is my rejection letter.


 * Oh yeah, hah. Talk about impersonal.

University of California at Santa Barbara
(Deadline: November 2)
 * Assistant Prof of Acting

Carnegie Mellon - Open Rank Prof. of Playwriting (running grad PW program)
(deadline mid-November)

Christopher Newport University
(Deadline December 1st)

Colby College- Assistant Professor/Generalist
(deadline Dec 1)
 * Phone interview scheduled week of Dec 8
 * Contacted via email for phone interview

University of Dallas- Drama Lit/Directing
(Deadline December 1)

Denison University - Assistant Professors of Acting and Directing
(Deadline: 1 October 2008 information)
 * 2 posts available
 * Pre-interviews at ATHE 2008
 * Departmental secretary informed me that they've narrowed down to four interviews.

Fairfield - Assistant Professor, Acting
(Deadline Dec 1)
 * Recieved email that application was recieved.

Florida State University - Assistant Professor of Voice and Performance
(Deadline: 3 October)

University of Incarnate Word

 * Anyone heard anything from Incarnate Word?

Lehigh University - Asst. Professor of Playwriting
(Nov. 10th deadline)
 * phone interview set up for week of Dec. 8th (received e-mail 12/4)

Loyola University Chicago--Theater History/Assistant Prof.
(Deadline: Jan. 1) ATHE has this as a 1/15 deadline

Loyola, Maryland - Assistant Professor
(Deadline: Dec 1)

Missouri State University - Assistant Professor/Acting-Directing
(Deadline October 15)

Mount Saint Mary
(Deadline: )
 * Has anyone heard anything from '''Wabash or Mount St. Mary College?

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill - Assistant Professors of Theatre History and African/Asian Theatre History
(Deadline November 14)
 * 2 positions
 * out of curiosity, where was this job posted --perhaps I missed in in CHE, MLA, and ATHE . . but if not, I am wondering what other source I should be looking at.
 * I would also suggest Artsearch and HigherEdJobs.com, the latter will send you postings via email tailored to your specific interests free of charge.

University of North Dakota

 * Interview Novemeber 2008

Ohio State University - Open Rank Theatre TT
(Deadline: 1 October 2008 information)
 * looking for a "Teacher/Scholar/Artist"
 * To whomever deleted this search --please see the pages of rants on deleting things from the wiki

Reed College - Asst. Professor- Theater Generalist
(Deadline Dec. 3rd)
 * failed search last year

Rider University - Assistant Professor, Acting
(Deadline: Until Filled)
 * Failed search last year
 * Pre-interview at ATHE
 * Contacted in Oct to see if still interested.

Saint Ambrose University - Assistant Professor - Generalist
(Open Until Filled)
 * Has anyone heard anything from St. Ambrose aside from a confirmation of materials/EOE form?
 * The position is no longer listed on the St. Ambrose HR site...I am guessing it has closed?
 * I called SAU HR, and they said that they filled the position yesterday. Did anyone interview there/hear from them?
 * A friend of a friend interviewed with them, but didn't get the offer.
 * Rejection letter received (12/8).

University of Scranton
(Deadline:  )
 * Has anyone heard from University of Scranton? Any MLA interviews set up with them?

Smith - Assistant Professor, Acting/Directing
(Deadline Dec 1)
 * Application acknowledgement Dec 5

Stanford University - Open Rank Performance Creator
(Deadline: 28 October 2008)
 * Any word on this?

Temple University- Assistant Professors of History/Dramaturgy and Voice/Acting
(Deadline: 2 September, 2008)
 * 2 Positions Available
 * Today I got a rejection letter (email form) from the head of the Department saying that they have narrowed down the candidates to three people (for the History/Dramaturgy position). 11/4/08.

Truman - Assistant Professor, Generalist
(Deadline: )
 * Truman State wants a "Statement of Production Collaboration." Does anybody know what the heck that is? Job doesn't have a contact listed either, so I can't figure out how to get clarification.-- Nevermind. Wrote something. Hope it suffices.

Wabash
(Deadline:  )
 * Has anyone heard anything from '''Wabash or Mount St. Mary College?
 * Confirmation of materials and a nice note from an administrator (?) when I emailed to update my status on some things from Wabash more recently. Nothing past that.
 * Notified that I had made the short list and that they would determine finalists soon.
 * Notified that I had made the "short list" and finalists would be contacted soon. Of course, I don't know how long the short is.
 * When and how were you notified that you made the short list?
 * I was contacted via email last week.

University of Washington- Assistant Professor of Movement
(Deadline: 1 September 2008)

Washington U(St. Louis)
(Deadline: 11/1)
 * Received Letter 11/20: Application received; interviews to be carried out at MLA
 * Have heard they want someone with a lot of publications or who will publish a LOT.

Wayne State University- Assistant Professor/Generalist
(Review Date - October 15)

Wesleyan University - Theater History Assistant/Associate
(Deadline: 14 November 2008)


 * Received email 9 December 2008: Application received; no mention of further process. Something tells me this one will take a while...


 * email 12-9: materials rec'd, under review. (x2)

Western Carolina University - Assistant Prof. of Acting
(Deadline: open till filled)

Western Michigan University - Theatre History Assistant Prof.
(Deadline: November 15, 2008)

Discussion

 * Q: Last year's page got pretty messy. Should we try a format more like Humanities Postdocs or Art History?
 * A: Sure if you know how to format it. Get us started and I'm guessing the rest of us would be happy to follow your lead.
 * A: Okay. Done. When you hit the "history" link, you'll be able to see which particular job searches were updated when.
 * Q: Hey folks whats going on out there? Things seemed to be looking up from last year but then seemed to slow down. Am I off in that interpretation? Although it does seem like there are a good number of good senior positions posted.
 * Q: Has anyone heard of any specific hiring freezes or cancelations in Theatre?
 * A: As far as history/lit positions go, this is the slimmest I've seen it in six years on the market. U of Pittsburgh will be suspending two of three searches in the theatre arts department (only the lighting design position is going forward). Florida State has instituted a sweeping hiring and salary freeze that includes theatre; Berkeley, which otherwise would probably be conducting a search this year or next to replace Sudipto Chatterjee, won't, and may be losing adjunct positions too-- as anyone who skims CHE knows, this is happening just about everywhere. Even places like Harvard, Brown and Cornell are re-evaluating all hires.
 * A: UNC-G has canceled the playwright search
 * Q: Where is the Berkeley info coming from?
 * A: Don't want to compromise friends, but it's from department fac/staff. Just to clarify, as far as I know nothing has happened to adjunct positions yet; it's all still just talk. But the whole UC system is belt-tightening in such ways.
 * I hope no one is annoyed by my attempt at organization- moving school specific questions, comments to those areas. No harm meant just trying to keep things easy to scan.
 * Frankly I'm just pleased to see people updating and adding things.
 * I have to admit I was intimidated by the format. I did post but I did mess up the format on the page. Some kind person made it look nice for me. I couldn't get the font to be the right size in the heading.
 * Hi there... I was your formatter. It was simpler than you thought. No quotes. Just three equal signs before and three after. And you need to use stars (asterisks) rather than dashes. Thanks for posting!