Tenured/Tenure-Track: Assistant or Associate Professor in Music, Guitar Interarts Performance

The College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University invites applications for one (1) tenure-track assistant professor or an associate professor with tenure review upon hire, depending on qualifications, in guitar interarts performance, with a full-time, nine-month (per year) academic appointment beginning in fall 2025. Now building a powerhouse for artistic innovation, the new college brings music together with dance, performance studies, theater, and visual arts, as well as creative computing and game design.

To serve the new BFA in Music Performance, the college’s Dance, Music, and Theater Performance Section seeks an individual with:

• expertise in guitar interarts performance
• expertise in teaching guitar at the university level
• experience in Western art music, popular music, jazz, folk, commercial, or non-Western music practices or other aspects of music such as entrepreneurship, the music industry, or technology-based performance
• the ability to develop undergraduate and graduate courses and interarts performance projects that engage with areas of strength in our college, within and outside of music

Expectations

Tenured and tenure-track faculty are expected to:

• develop and maintain competitive research activities
• teach undergraduate and graduate courses
• develop and implement curriculum pertaining to college programs
• contribute to academic service
• grow national or international visibility for their original work, for example, through peer-reviewed academic research publications or juried creative work, as well as pursue funding opportunities as applicable

All candidates must hold a terminal degree in music performance or a related field by the start date (such as DMA, DM, PhD, MFA).

Candidates applying at the rank of assistant professor must demonstrate:

• a plan to establish and follow an agenda of research or creative work that will inform and advance their field of expertise
• the potential to establish practices in effective teaching, student recruitment, committee service, and professional development

Candidates applying at the rank of associate professor with tenure review upon hire must demonstrate:

• a well-developed agenda of research or creative work that is informing and advancing the field
• successful practices in effective teaching, student recruitment, committee service, and professional development

Preference will be given to applicants who demonstrate experience in interdisciplinary collaboration for artistic performance.

Interested individuals should apply through Interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/156519 and submit the following materials (include links to your work or student work you mentor, with links typed out, please):

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Personal statement: Your statement should include philosophy and plans for research, teaching, and service as applicable.
• Portfolio of creative work
• Names and contact information of five professional references

Review of applications will begin 30 days after posting and will continue until the position is filled.

Questions should be directed to Dr. Jeffrey Morris, chair of the search committee, at morris@tamu.edu.

Please check the Interfolio application link above for the current status of this posting.