Assistant Teaching Professor

Position Overview

Position title:

Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Art
Salary range:
Commensurate with qualifications and experience; a reasonable estimate for the annual salary (academic year, nine‑month basis) of this position is $89,400 to $116,500.
Percent time:
Full‑time (100%)
Anticipated start:
July 1, 2027, with the academic year beginning in September 2027. Degree requirements must be met by June 30, 2027 for employment effective July 1, 2027.
Open date:
June 29, 2026

Next review date:
Monday, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date:
Wednesday, June 30, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) – Applications will continue to be accepted until this date; those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.

The Music Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for an appointment as Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Arts from artist‑educators whose practice engages creative coding, sound, and media arts through ethical and critical approaches to technology, and who demonstrate a deep commitment to pedagogical excellence.

The successful candidate would join the faculty of the Music Department as an Assistant Teaching Professor, and would also be a core faculty member of UCSC’s Creative Technologies program – a multi‑departmental, online undergraduate major whose faculty are dedicated to advanced, innovative web‑based arts and design pedagogy, and a curriculum that cultivates imagination, justice, and empowered community in digital contexts.

The UCSC Music Department and the Creative Technologies program seek an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Arts who will teach courses and mentor students in creative coding, sound studies, and media arts practice, including sound art or electronic music. Additional teaching areas may include: generative and algorithmic approaches to design and media; physical computing; interactive, participatory, and/or performance‑based digital media;

music composition; ethical and critical approaches to emerging technologies in contemporary art; and other courses according to the candidate’s areas of expertise.

The position is situated within a creative community whose practice is grounded in questions of justice, equity, and social engagement – in which these concerns are central to how we make, teach, and think about art and technology.

• Accessibility‑focused and disability‑justice‑focused media practices, including universal and anti‑ableist design
• Critical and historical approaches to sound and listening
• Spatial audio and immersive media
• Socially engaged and community‑centered practice
• Ethical and critical approaches to machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Game art and interactive media platforms

• Teaching:
  In‑person, online, and hybrid courses in creative coding, sound studies, and media arts practice.
• Professional and/or scholarly achievement and activity, including creative work that informs instruction and pedagogy, with impact beyond the classroom.
• University and public service:
  Contributions to the University’s mission, services, and community engagement.

• Graduate degree – M.A., M.M., M.F.A., or higher (or equivalent foreign degree) in sound studies; music composition, music theory/perception/cognition, or musicology; media arts; media studies; computational approaches to media; or education with a specialization in one or more of the aforementioned areas. The degree must be completed by June 30, 2027.
• Record of teaching at the college or university level.
• Practical proficiencies in one or…