The Newcomb Art Department and Program in Digital Media Practices at Tulane University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor in studio art with a focus on digital art and expanded media. Appointment to begin July 2025.

The Newcomb Art Department is one of the oldest art departments in the South, founded as part of the first degree-granting college for women in the U.S., and fully incorporated into Tulane University in 1987. The department is at an exciting moment in its trajectory. We are expanding our commitment to reflect the transnational networks of the contemporary art world and building on our connections to our culturally diverse and profoundly creative home city of New Orleans, itself a global cultural capital. Tulane’s Strategy for Tomorrow outlines the university’s commitment to support a diverse and equitable community both professionally and personally. The School of Liberal Arts has echoed these values by underlining equity in hiring processes and emphasizing mentoring, faculty support, and belonging. The Newcomb Art Department embraces this commitment.

Digital Media Practices provides students opportunities to develop and refine digital media skills omnipresent across exhibition spaces and streaming platforms. Students pursue fundamentals through coursework in content creation, storytelling, and media manipulation in filmmaking, screenwriting, audio production, Interactive media, game design, podcasting, and interdisciplinary media. The program’s workshop-style classes allow experienced and supportive faculty to define student goals and actively collaborate — critical soft skills in the media production industry. 

We are searching for a collaborative faculty member in studio art with experience in digital and new media techniques within the interdisciplinary realm of contemporary art. The ideal candidate will possess a strong commitment to teaching and will employ an integrated approach to cultivating artistic practice across foundational, emerging, and experimental modalities in the classroom. This position necessitates a proactive approach to updating curriculum and pedagogy in response to dynamically shifting digital and technological tools. We are particularly interested in artist-educators whose research and practice actively engage with these evolving tools and contribute to critical discourse in the field. Applicants should also demonstrate an active professional practice at the national or international level, with a track record of growing recognition in the field.

Full-time faculty teach undergraduate and graduate-level studio classes, seminars, and consistently serve on BFA and MFA committees within the interdisciplinary art environment of these programs. Tenure-track faculty members are expected to maintain active professional careers and participate in ongoing curricular development, departmental administration, and school governance. The course load for this position is 2:2. This position is structured as a 75/25 joint appointment between the Department and the Program, with at least one course per year originating in the Program.

Salary and benefits are competitive with peer institutions and commensurate with quality of practice, scholarship, academic research, extent of teaching experience, and current professional standing. 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct scholarly work (research and/or creative activity), with an active exhibition record and recognition in the field.
• Teach two courses per semester in both fall and spring semesters, including introductory-level courses.
•  At least one of the four courses taught per year will originate from our Digital Media Practices program (courses may be co-listed across the two programs)
• Areas of artistic expertise in research and teaching include, but are not limited to:
  • Emerging and new media art
  • Time-based media, including sound art
  • Experimental video
  • Digital fabrication
  • Computational art and creative coding
  •  Internet art
  • Augmented reality, virtual reality, and/or artificial intelligence
  • Interactive experiences
  • Electronic objects and interfaces
  • Digital drawing/painting
  • Art games
  • Bio/Eco art
• Support our students in developing creative works as part of a socially and culturally engaged research university.
• Coordinate teaching with graduate teaching assistants and faculty in digital art.
• Supervise/conduct individual studies with graduate students in digital art.
• Serve on MFA and BFA review committees, which meet twice a semester.
• Contribute to curricular revision and development to build a progressive, innovative, and destination arts program.
• Contribute to the safe and effective supervision of the digital art classroom, in concert with other colleagues and staff as available. This may include repair / replacement of equipment, supervision of student workers, managing material inventories, etc.
• Participate in service activities within the Newcomb Art Department, the Program in Digital Media Practices, the School of Liberal Arts, and the University.