Senior Lecturer

The department offers a critical and interdisciplinary theoretical programme that is core to the professional undergraduate degrees offered in the school. We work closely with colleagues in the school, intersecting with a wide range of disciplinary practices and specialisations. The department also offers postgraduate degrees at the Honours, Masters and Doctoral level. 

The Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies in the School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, is recruiting a Senior Lecturer.

We invite applications from qualified candidates who share our lens of decoloniality and interdisciplinarity as the animating approaches across research and pedagogical interests. This encompasses interconnections between various professional degrees within the school and disciplines and beyond its borders.  These include, but are not limited to, studies traversing culture, identity politics, aesthetics, economics, science and technology, and an ability to engage broadly with these intersections in terms of representation and socio-political, historical and contemporary constructions of power relations. 

Candidates should hold a PhD in cultural studies, film or media studies, visual cultures, or disciplinary background related to the core teaching areas in the academic major, Film, Visual & Performing Arts. Candidates are expected to be active researchers with an established publication record, and have expert critical and current knowledge in one or more fields related to:

• modes of storytelling across media and cultures

• media / cultural studies, orientated towards South Africa and /or a Global South perspective

• the intersections of creative and traditional research modes

• creative practices and the creative industries

Teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels is essential and candidates should have experience in postgraduate supervision. 

Candidates should also have relevant experience with administrative responsibilities at the departmental management level.

Experience in curriculum development in interdisciplinary culture studies and the creative arts as well as evidence of expertise in the scholarship of teaching and learning would be an advantage. 

• offer wide-ranging teaching across all years of study; 

• implement student-centred pedagogies for student development and growth; 

• supervise postgraduate students at Honours, MA and PhD level; 

• be research active in areas related to their expertise; 

• carry out administrative duties for the department, school and faculty (including a rotation in the role of Head of Department on confirmation of appointment)

• contribute to curriculum design and development 

• contribute to academic citizenship in the department and school

• take part in the intellectual and public life of the university

Enquiries only: Dr Catherine Duncan, e-mail: Catherine.Duncan@wits.ac.za 

To apply, submit a letter of motivation – clearly indicating which position you are applying for, detailed CV and the names and contact details of three referees (incl. e-mail addresses). 

Internal employees are invited to apply directly on Oracle by following the path: iWits /Self Service application/”Apply for a job”

External applicants are invited to apply, by registering a profile on the Wits i-recruitment platform located at https://irec.wits.ac.za and submitting your application.

*The University is committed to employment equity. Preference may be given to appointable applicants from the under-represented designated groups in terms of the relevant employment equity plans and policies of the University. Designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, as amended, means black people, women and people with disabilities. 

WITS Employment Equity Policy: https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/footer/about-wits/transformation-office/documents/Policy%20-%20Employment%20Equity.pdf 

Please note that only applications via the website will be considered for shortlisting.  

The University reserves the right to verify all information provided by candidates and to verify credit standing. Please note that correspondence will only be entered into with short-listed candidates. 

The University reserves the right not to make an appointment or to re-advertise.