10/29/2025
We are hiring!
Announcement of Tenure-Track, Assistant Professor in Entertainment Technology
Department of Music, Theatre, and Film
ABOUT THE POSITION: The Department of Music, Theatre, and Film at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) invites applications for a dynamic and visionary educator and practitioner of Entertainment Technology, who will teach, mentor, and inspire students preparing for careers in creative entertainment industries. The successful candidate will bring expertise across emerging and traditional entertainment platforms—spanning interactive media, or virtual/augmented reality, or live performance technologies, or digital production pipelines.
Responsibilities: Engage in creative activity/research, teaching and service as part of the Theatre Program, which offers majors in Theatre with concentrations in Design and Technology, Performance, and Film and Media Arts. Teaching responsibilities include instruction in the areas of production design and entertainment technology. The regular teaching load is three courses per semester. Faculty are expected to actively engage in recruiting events, in public presentations of student work, and to meaningfully contribute to departmental productions.
Qualifications: MFA in Theatre Design, Theatre Technology, or Entertainment Technology, or a related field and an ability to effectively visualize, design, and build such design and technology projects for theatre and film productions, as well as provide highly effective instruction in undergraduate courses related to design and entertainment technology. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in college teaching related to design and technology. Additional experience in new areas of entertainment technologies is a plus. Candidates who are near completing their degree requirements will be considered; however, all degree requirements must be completed by August 1, 2026, to be appointed at the rank of Assistant Professor.
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