[AMS-announce] JOB: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Musicology, University of British Columbia

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The School of Music in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Musicology, to begin July 1, 2008.  The appointment is for 1 year, renewable for a second year subject to approval from the Director of the School of Music.  Successful candidates will teach three single-semester undergraduate courses each year of the fellowship, and will have opportunities for mentorship from experienced professors in the school.  The teaching assignment is likely to include one course in the four-term music history core sequence (in 2008-09, Medieval/Renaissance Music History), one general interest course devoted to a repertoire of broad appeal (popular music studies, jazz genres, some aspect of the traditional classical canon, etc.), and one upper-level undergraduate course in the Fellow's area of expertise.  Applications are encouraged from candidates in any research area who can offer courses of the indicated typ
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This position is one of 17 new Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows to be appointed in the Faculty of Arts, joining 14 currently in the Faculty. These positions enable innovative and collaborative teaching between Postdoctoral Teaching Fellows and outstanding UBC professors, while helping to launch the careers of new scholars showing early promise as excellent university teachers and researchers.  Each Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow will have opportunities to interact with faculty on teaching and research, and to participate in a cohort of early-career scholars sharing methods and exchanging ideas for excellent teaching.  

Applicants should normally be within 3 years of being awarded the PhD. Please submit a letter of application, a CV, a statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching potential, a sample of written work, and request three academic referees to send confidential letters of reference directly to the address below.  All materials should be sent to:

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship Program
Office of the Director, UBC School of Music, 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, BC, Canada  V6T 1Z2

Questions may be directed to musicsec at interchange.ubc.ca.  Candidates and referees may send electronic documents to this address;  we accept reference letters by email, but also request that referees send a signed copy by post.

Complete applications and reference letters received by May 1, 2008 will be given priority;  the position will remain open until filled. All positions are subject to final budgetary approval.