Assistant Professor in Korean Film
Assistant Professor in Korean Film
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Job Description
The School of International Letters & Cultures (SILC) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a tenuretrack position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Korean Film Media and Performance Studies. The appointment will begin in August 2025.
We are particularly interested in scholars whose research focuses on Korean media and film popular culture theater and performance and diasporas. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the expansion of the current curriculum on modern and contemporary Korea. The candidate will also collaborate with faculty in the East Asian section as well as across SILC to develop courses on transnational and interdisciplinary comparative topics that position Korean studies within broader regional and global currents in film media performance and visual studies.
We seek a candidate who can play a pivotal role in the growth of the Korean section and who is committed to fostering inclusion and excellence in both research and education.
About the School of International Letters and Cultures:
The School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) is home to scholars working in twenty languages and educating its students in those languages and their accompanying literatures and cultures. With more than 1600 students enrolled in their majors and minors and more than ten thousand taking their courses in any given semester SILC faculty bear the primary responsibility for building language proficiency and culturally nuanced critical thinking among the worldwide community of ASU more information about the School of International Letters and Cultures (SILC) visit: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University. For employees that means the chance to engage with a large and curious student body. And for students that are pursuing a degree in our college faculty and staff get the opportunity to guide them as they grow into socially aware critical thinkers who are often pioneering solutions to societal issues. While the student success is our top priority The College also supports the professional development and growth of its faculty and staff as well as research that positively impacts our community. Learn more about what The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has to offer by visiting Arizona State University:
ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter ASU is a comprehensive public research university measured not by whom it excludes but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic social cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.
Essential Functions of the Position
The successful candidate will be expected to:
Design and teach two courses per semester in Korean film popular culture literature and/or media studies at both undergraduate and graduate level.
Contribute to curriculum development in the Korean section and SILC more broadly.
Supervise honors masters and doctoral students.
Conduct research and publish in toptier journals and presses.
Participate in professional and university service as appropriate for rank.
Required Qualifications:
- A Ph.D. in a Koreanrelated humanities field required by time of appointment. ABD candidates may be considered but must have Ph.D. conferred by time of appointment.
- Proficient in both modern Korean and English.
- Evidence of effective teaching at the university level.
- Evidence of clear research agenda and scholarly publication trajectory.
Desired Qualifications:
- Research and teaching expertise in interdisciplinary transnational East Asian and comparative topics
- Research and teaching expertise in a second Asian language and culture
- Ability to teach content courses in Korean
- Ability to use basic instructional technology (i.e. Blackboard Canvas etc.)
- Demonstrated commitment to working with faculty staff students and communities to advance the principles of the ASU Charter.
Employment Type
Full Time
