[AMS-announce] JOB: Music History--Delaware

[ams-announce-admin at list.bowdoin.edu]

NOTICE OF VACANCY

POSITION: Music History (Tenure Track)

QUALIFICATIONS:
    PhD in Historical Musicology.
    Specialization in music after 1600.
    Evidence of successful college-level teaching.
    Established record of research in musicology and potential for continued scholarly activity.
    Secondary area (e.g. ethnomusicology, women?s studies) helpful.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
    Teaching three courses per semester.  Primary teaching responsibilities will come from courses in the following areas: core undergraduate history courses (introduction and sequence); graduate methods and topics courses; upper-level literature courses (symphonic, chamber, and contemporary).
    Maintaining active research and publication profile.
    Collegial participation in departmental, college and university activities and governance.
    Contribution to the department?s recruitment and retention goals.

RANK: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track

SALARY:    Commensurate with rank and experience.


THE UNIVERSITY:    The University of Delaware is a private, state-assisted research university, enrolling approximately 20,000 students.  The city of Newark, with a population of approximately 30,000 is located in northeastern Delaware, fourteen miles southwest of Wilmington, the principal city of the state.  Students and faculty have easy access to cultural events in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

THE DEPARTMENT:    The Department of Music is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. We offer the Bachelor of Music degrees in Applied Music, Music Education, and Theory and Composition; the Bachelor of Arts with a major in music and concentration in Music Management and Master of Music degrees in Performance, teaching and Composition.  The Department comprises 60 full- and part-time faculty and professionals.  The Department of Music enrolls approximately 340 undergraduate majors, 
minors, and graduate students.

APPLICATION: Send letter of application, current CV, three recent letters of recommendation, examples of scholarly writing, and a teaching portfolio (including video of classroom teaching).  The curriculum vitae and letters of recommendation will be shared with departmental faculty. Materials will not be returned except by prior arrangement.

Russell Murray, Music History Search Committee Chair
c/o Paul Head, Department Chair
Department of Music
University of Delaware
Newark, DE  19716

DEADLINE: All materials must be postmarked by October 15, 2007

DATE OF APPOINTMENT:      1 September 2008

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT:  Visit the Department?s 
home page on the Web at www.udel.edu/music/

The University of Delaware is an Equal Opportunity Employer that 
encourages applications from minority groups and women.