Assistant​/Associate​/Full Professor; Tenure Track), Contemporary Dance Forms - Department of Dance

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Dance (https://dance.illinois.edu/) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty appointment in Dance at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level. We seek a candidate with a focused choreographic research trajectory and accomplished track record of performing and teaching in forms beyond the traditional Euro-American canon. Examples include, but are not limited to, dance practices rooted in Indigenous, Latina/o, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, East Asian, and South Asian communities.

This position will be a 100% time 9-month contract appointment with 40% time teaching, 40% time research, and 20% time service breakdown. Responsibilities include teaching a 2/2 or 2/3 load, advising students, participating in academic advising and governance, choreographing and/or directing departmental productions and continuing a high profile of nationally and internationally recognized creative research.

The UIUC Department of Dance is one of the oldest and most well-respected Dance Departments in our nation leading the field on the forefront of progressive pedagogical invention. Our vibrant guest artist program and accomplished faculty connect our students directly with the professional fields of Dance all over the world.

Themissionof Dance at Illinois is to contribute to Dance’s positive impact on the world, asa distinctive generator of new knowledge and as a vital cultural agent and signifier.

We activate the power of Dance to root out historically unbalanced, hierarchically oppressive perspectives and are committed to investigating the dynamic intersections between research and teaching in academic, professional, and community settings.

The College of Fine and Applied Arts (FAA) is singular in thenation for its diversity, innovation and breadth. Its missionis dedicated to the advancement, practice, and understanding of thearts, and its central focus is the synergy between research and the preparation of students for professional careers in the creation and interpretation of the environmental, visual, and performing arts.

Deeply related to that focus is the commitment to elevate and sustain the study of the arts as both a necessary mode of understanding and avibrant expression of human experience within the local, national, and international communities.

• An MFA degree and/or equivalent long-term professional experience in the field
• A well- defined creative research mission and portfolio of accomplishment

• Experience teaching in the Higher Ed context
• Social justice dimensions are a key component of our program offerings. To increase this profile, we strongly encourage applications from individuals with demonstrable commitments to equity and social justice through teaching, research, and/or community engagement, and a reflective approach to transforming the discipline with respect to inclusion and anti-racism. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who bring experience working with under-represented and underserved communities and traditions.

The Department of Dance is an independent ACADEMIC unit in the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois, whose social justice efforts have the support of dedicated staff at the college and campus levels who work with students, faculty, and staff to facilitate learning and transformation with regard to anti-Black racism, violence, and prejudice in all its forms.

The University of Illinois is an internationally recognized research and educational institution located in Urbana-Champaign, a vibrant university community within driving distance of Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. With the nation’s third largest research library, the University supports faculty as active researchers in the humanities, arts, sciences, and engineering through opportunities for funding and vital cross-disciplinary exchange in the campus’ many institutes, centers, and initiatives.

These include the Siebel Center for Design, Campus Research Board, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study, the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and…