[Benjamin Miller]

Passing along this announcement for a new hire in Serious Games research:

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From: Jennifer deWinter
Date: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:46 PM
Subject: [WPA-L] position announcement in serious games
To: WPA-L@asu.edu

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Interactive Media & Game Development Program

Open Rank Tenured / Tenure Track Faculty Position in Serious Games – July 2015
Balance: teaching & research, theory & practice, work & play, engineering, art & design. Balance is the concept that best encapsulates life as a WPI IMGD faculty member. If this sounds like a place for you, please join us.

The WPI Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) Program (http://imgd.wpi.edu/) seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member at the Assistant Professor level to start July 1, 2015. Candidates should hold a terminal degree at the time of appointment in any related discipline and should have a research focus in Serious Games.

WPI is very well positioned for the development of Serious Games in education through our Learning Sciences & Technologies Program (http://www.wpi.edu/academics/lst.html), and in health-related areas through our multi-university Healthcare Delivery Institute (http://www.wpi.edu/research/hdi.html). We welcome candidates with interests in these and other Serious Games areas. Successful candidates will have a clear plan to establish a research program within IMGD, seek external research funding, and participate in teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Exceptional candidates may be hired at the Associate or Full Professor level .

Established in 2005, the IMGD Program is a collaborative venture between the Computer Science and the Humanities & Arts Departments, combining the technical and artistic aspects of game development in a balanced approach that is bound together by the importance of design. The 12 core and 9 additional affiliated IMGD faculty members bring diverse skills and experience to the teaching and scholarship of all things interactive. The IMGD Program enjoys strong support from the university and has state-of-the-art space and equipment for designing, creating, and evaluating next-generation interactive experiences.

We expect successful candidates to contribute to the exceptionally close-knit, collaborative, and collegial atmosphere we currently enjoy.

Founded in 1865, WPI is one of the nation’s oldest technological universities. Today, WPI is a highly selective private university with an undergraduate student body of over 4,000 and 1,900 full- and part-time graduate students enrolled in more than 50 Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. programs. WPI is consistently ranked among the top national universities in U.S. News & World Report. Its innovative project-enriched curriculum engages students and faculty in real-world problem solving, often at one of WPI’s project centers. The university is located in the heart of Massachusetts an hour away from Boston and Providence.

To Apply:
If balance is what you are after, please apply for our open faculty position. Applicants should submit a cover letter with details about their research goals and teaching philosophy, vitae, and contact information for at least three references. Applications should be received by December 15, 2014. Applications will be reviewed as they are received; therefore, applicants are encouraged to apply early. Apply here: http://apptrkr.com/525169

Questions about the hiring process should be sent to imgd-recruit@wpi.edu.

To enrich education through diversity, WPI is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. – See more at: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000851037-01#sthash.Fr9Ex41a.dpuf

[Matthew K. Gold (he/him)]

Georgia Tech is also hiring in Games:

https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000851079-01

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Digital Media (Games)

School of Literature, Media, and Communication

The School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC) at the Georgia
Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) seeks applicants to fill a
tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor (entry level) in
the area of games, effective August 2015.

Required qualifications: The successful applicant will have a Ph.D. or
equivalent doctoral degree in an appropriate discipline (field open) for
conducting research and teaching in games and related areas; a firm
theoretical grounding in humanistic methods of media studies common to
Digital Media; a demonstrated capacity for significant original
research/creative work in game studies (broadly construed) and/or game
design; and a clearly defined research program and trajectory.

Preferred qualifications: Expertise in both the theoretical (game studies)
and practical (game design) aspects of games would be welcomed, as would
candidates with an active, visible creative practice in game development.
The Digital Media program in LMC covers three core areas– Knowledge and
Creativity, Civic and Public Media, and Arts and Entertainment. The
position advertised falls into the area of Arts and Entertainment, but
candidates with expertise in one or more of our other areas of focus would
be welcomed, as would candidates with expertise in other areas of digital
media studies, and/or issues of social justice (feminism in particular).
The potential to secure external research funding is strongly desirable as
well.

Teaching: Successful applicants can expect to teach a 2/2 load distributed
across graduate and undergraduate courses in the Computational Media B.S.
program (jointly administered by LMC and the School of Interactive
Computing in the College of Computing), in LMCs M.S. and Ph.D. programs in
Digital Media, and in the Digital Media emphasis of the M.S. in Human
Computer Interaction (HCI). The B.S. and M.S. programs provide a
studio-intensive curriculum that integrates theory and practice. The Ph.D.
program is largely focused on research, and most doctoral graduates enter
the academy.

The School of Literature, Media, and Communication is a multi-disciplinary
program. It offers B.S. degrees in Literature, Media, and Communication and
in Computational Media, M.S. degrees in Digital Media and Human Computer
Interaction, and a Ph.D. in Digital Media. The School includes Writing and
Communication that encompasses the Institute’s Communication Center, the
Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and Communication Across Tech and
provides discipline-specific courses for campus-wide audiences. For more
information, visit http://www.lmc.gatech.edu.

Applicants should send a cover letter surveying the applicants expertise
for the position, a curriculum vitae, and a list of three potential
references emailed as one single PDF to hiring@mail.gatech.edu. Review of
applications will begin on November 10, 2014, and will continue until the
position is filled. The Georgia Institute of Technology is an equal
opportunity employer whose academic core mission is based on the principles
of inclusion, equity, diversity, and justice.

– See more at:
https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000851079-01#sthash.AzjfU6J6.dpuf

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