Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Production

The Department of Communication is seeking a collaborative scholar-practitioner who is passionate about advancing creative media production through innovative storytelling, emerging technologies, and critical inquiry. In this role, you will help prepare the next generation of media professionals by combining creative practice with meaningful engagement across the social, cultural, political, and technological dimensions of contemporary communication.

You will contribute to a forward-thinking academic community by teaching media arts and production courses, helping shape the future of the department’s media production curriculum, and fostering connections that extend beyond the classroom. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, partnerships with industry and community organizations, and leadership of shared creative spaces, you will play an important role in expanding the department’s strengths in digital media production, creative practice, and critical making.

Key Responsibilities:
Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in media arts and production, including areas such as film and video production, documentary and nonfiction storytelling, transmedia storytelling, and other emerging forms of creative media.
Incorporate innovative approaches to storytelling and media technologies, including audiovisual, interactive, immersive, generative, AI-assisted, mobile, locative, social media, installation, and game-based media, as appropriate to your expertise.
Contribute to the continued development and evolution of the department’s media production curriculum.
Coordinate instructional staffing for media production courses.
Provide oversight of the department’s media lab and support an engaging learning environment for students and faculty.
Develop interdisciplinary collaborations across NC State to expand opportunities for creative scholarship and teaching.
Build and maintain partnerships with media industries, arts organizations, and community partners to strengthen experiential learning and public engagement.
Advance creative media production that encourages critical reflection, public engagement, and innovative forms of communication.
Participate actively in departmental initiatives and contribute to a collaborative and collegial academic community.

Join a department where creativity, critical inquiry, and emerging media converge. If you’re ready to help students explore new forms of storytelling while contributing to an innovative and collaborative academic community, we encourage you to apply.

About The Department of Communication at NC State
The Department of Communication at NC State is an accomplished community of students, staff members, teachers and researchers with varied intellectual interests in the communication arts and sciences. Through our teaching, research and service, we cultivate responsible, caring and collaborative communication practices for our students, our community partners and the global citizenry. We do this because communication is central to addressing the significant challenges
and opportunities of the 21st Century and we are committed to enabling people, organizations and communities to thrive. Our Department’s curricular domains include interpersonal communication; organizational communication; rhetoric; media studies; public relations; media production; and science, health, environment, and risk communication (SHER). We serve approximately 800 undergraduate majors and 100 graduate students. Faculty also teach in the Department’s Master of Science in Communication program and in its interdisciplinary doctoral program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (in partnership with the Department of English).
NC State promotes an integrated approach to problem solving that transforms lives and provides leadership for social, economic and technological development across North Carolina and around the world. NC State’s land grant mission of teaching, research and service is dedicated to the service of North Carolina and its people. Applicants are encouraged to review the institution’s mission, vision and strategic plan, and consider how their background, interest and experience would enable them to support the university.