Candidate Qualifications
- MA, MFA, or PhD in a field or discipline of relevance.
- A vibrant and continuing performance practice with significant creative output in one or more of the following areas: live art, devised/post dramatic theatre, social practice, digital/multimedia, immersive/site specific, expansive choreographic practice and/or time-based practices.
- An ability to combine creative practice with critical inquiry in teaching and researching contemporary performance.
- Experience combining a wide range of methodologies and artistic disciplines beyond traditional theatre; commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration.
- A capacity to share, clearly and effectively, the theoretical, practical, and technical methodologies and historical/social contexts of their creative research with undergraduate and graduate students.
- Experience working effectively, flexibly, collaboratively, and ethically with diverse communities of artists, educators and students across the university and local groups.
- Established interest and capability in self-sufficient, hands-on making, and the ability to guide and unify full-scale public-facing works with modest resources.
Position Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to maintain a workload comprised of teaching, research and service to the area and school.
Teaching: Teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students within and across programs at the SCA. The development of public facing, student-involved projects in rotation with other full-time faculty is included as part of their teaching load. The normal teaching load for a faculty member is four courses (or their equivalent) annually. In each academic year, the normal trimester workload for research faculty is two semesters of teaching, two courses each semester and one semester dedicated to research in which no teaching duties are assigned.
Research: Research responsibilities require faculty to maintain a program of active artistic practice at local, national, and international levels outside of the university. Research at the School for the Contemporary Arts within SFU is defined as the generation of knowledge and innovation through artistic expression, experimentation, and/or scholarship.
Service: The SCA is committed to an open, collegial, and inclusive style of governance. The position will contribute to this shared governance and advancement of the SCA mission through service and committee participation including student recruitment activities. Under the SFUFA/SFU Collective Agreement, service also refers to “the annual contributions that faculty make to university governance, to their profession, to the development of their discipline nationally, internationally or locally, and to the furthering of good relations between the university and the local community.”
About the School for the Contemporary Arts
At Simon Fraser University, we live and work on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
The SCA, situated in downtown Vancouver, offers a unique curriculum in which studio classes are integrated with the historical and theoretical study of the arts. This is rooted in attention to critical contemporary issues as well as our commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration both within the classroom and beyond. The SCA offers BFAs in Dance; Film; Music & Sound; Theatre-Performance; Production and Design; Visual Art; a BA in Art, Performance and Cinema Studies; as well as an interdisciplinary MFA, and an MA and PhD in Contemporary Arts.
Application Instructions
Candidates are asked to submit:
- a cover letter of application outlining creative research and practice, and whether you are legally eligible to work in Canada. (1-2 pages);
- a current curriculum vitae;
- statement of teaching and/or mentorship philosophy that includes your commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in the classroom and beyond (2 pages);
- a statement of creative research (1-2 pages);
- links to 3-5 samples of creative works. Samples may include specific video or photo documentation. Please provide URLs with brief descriptions of each submission;
- the names and email addresses for three confidential referees (letters of reference may be requested at a later date).
Submit all applications by email to: Peter Dickinson, Director, c/o Suze Shore, scasec@sfu.ca.
Review of applications will begin on November 4, 2024, and continue until the position is filled. To ensure full consideration applications should be submitted by this date. Please note that materials submitted will not be returned.
