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The Department of Music seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry (CPCI), a departmental program that integrates a wide range of current music-making practices with research and critical engagement in music studies and associated fields. The appointment is expected to be made at the Assistant Professor level and to begin on July 1, 2024.
We invite applications from artists who represent a broad range of aesthetics and backgrounds, and who will reach out to other creative artists at Harvard and beyond. We seek a candidate whose body of work includes an active, creative life in music as well as scholarly publications or other forms of writing. They should ideally complement and/or extend the fields of expertise of current CPCI faculty and should be qualified to mentor student composer-performers, many of whom are professionally active and have diverse research interests and interdisciplinary concerns. Possible fields of expertise may include (but are not limited to) Black music, contemporary improvisation, integrative arts, contemporary performance, new compositional methods, sound art, non-Western musical systems, popular music, and/or experimental music.
The successful candidate will be responsible for teaching undergraduates and graduate students, as well as advising and mentoring. This full-time position involves teaching three courses a year as well as a teaching-equivalent contribution (often called a
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education. Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States.