Job Description

School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Department/Area: Theater, Dance & Media

Position Description:

The Standing Committee for Undergraduate Degrees in Theater, Dance, and Media seeks to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Dance. The appointment is expected to begin on 1 July 2025. The successful candidate will provide instruction in the art of dance, encompassing technique, theory, choreography, history, and improvisation. They will help to integrate dance into a broader undergraduate concentration in Theater, Dance, and Media, in pursuit of the ideals of a liberal arts education at Harvard College. In addition to teaching classes, they will share in undergraduate academic advising and mentoring responsibilities, lead curricular and program development in dance, contribute to the selection and hiring of term-limited faculty, and participate in strategic planning, and other responsibilities of the Standing Committee. The position is for five years and renewable contingent upon review and approval of the divisional/ SEAS dean.

Keywords:*

faculty, instructor, lecturer

Boston, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA, Northeast, New England

Dance, performance, choreography, movement

Basic Qualifications:

Terminal Degree in Dance or equivalent experience in the field and at least ten years of professional experience.

Additional Qualifications:

Senior Lecturers must have demonstrated an exceptional teaching record and must meet one of the following sets of criteria. Ordinarily, they have either:

1. Demonstrated that they are exceptional teachers and have taught within the tenured associate or full professor ranks at a university or peer undergraduate institution, with a commensurate scholarly record. Or,
2. Demonstrated a record of national leadership in innovation in pedagogy, with outstanding promise of continuing contribution, and in addition are exceptional teachers. Or,
3. They may be well-established, practicing artists, with an artistic record equivalent to the scholarly achievement of a tenured associate or full professor, who have also demonstrated an exceptional teaching record.

Contact Information:

Robin Kelsey, Search Committee Chair, Standing Committee for Undergraduate Degrees in Theater, Dance, and Media.
For candidate inquiries, please contact Fanni Horváth, Faculty Administrative Coordinator for Theater, Dance, and Media. Please include SL Dance in the subject line of the email.

Contact Email: fannihorvath@fas.harvard.edu

Special Instructions:

Please submit the following materials through the ARIeS portal (). Candidates are encouraged to apply by 15 November 2024; applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

2. Curriculum Vitae.

3. Teaching/advising statement (describing the candidate's teaching philosophy and practices as well as their approach to creating a learning environment in which every student is encouraged to ask questions and share their ideas).

4. Teaching and advising materials (e.g., teaching chart listing courses taught in reverse chronological order [please indicate which, if any, courses were taught remotely, whether partially or in full, due to the COVID -19 pandemic]; representative syllabi; teaching evaluations; list of undergraduate students for whom the candidate has primary advising responsibility).

4. One of the following statements: Research statement, or statement expanding on demonstrated record of national leadership in innovation in pedagogy, or statement describing artistic achievement.

5. Service statement describing efforts to strengthen academic communities (e.g., the candidate's department, institution, and/or professional societies).

6. Names and contact information of 3 referees, who will be asked by a system-generated email to upload a letter of recommendation once the candidate's application has been submitted. Three letters of recommendation are required, and the application is considered complete only when at least three letters have been received.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Harvard University

Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.

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