From the University of Michigan. Original posting is here.

The Department of Screen Arts and Cultures is seeking a LEO Lecturer I. The starting date is September 1, 2011. This position is pending final approval.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include course coordination and teaching one course on Asian Cinema in the Fall term 2011 and in the Winter term 2012.

For the Fall term 2011 the course will be SAC 485: The Global Screen: Contemporary Film and Televisions in Globalizing Asia This course will offer a comprehensive survey on contemporary film and television industries in Asia including mainland China (PRC), Hong Kong , Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and India, which have often been grouped under the regional cinematic entity called Asian Cinema. The subject has usually been treated within models of national cinema, which take film industries as relatively self-contained enterprises subject of state regulations and specific local and historical conditions. This course instead adopts a transnational approach to the regions film festivals, and the rise of trans/multinational media corporations in Asia in the context of the intensified globalization, cultural hybridizations or global melange, the national versus the transnational, new regionalism, and the unprecedented cultural flows and mixes in Asia. This course will prove useful not only to cinema studies students but also to Economics, Media Culture and Communication, and East/Southeast Asian studies students, as well as those who are interested in understanding how and why certain contemporary Asian films and television programs get produced, distributed and consumed, and how they created a regional/trans-regional cultural phenomenon.

Required Qualifications

Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree or ABD status in cinema studies and teaching experience at the university level, with a specialization in Asian Cinema and Television. Applications will be selected based upon demonstrated subject matter expertise, successful performance in the classroom, and the needs of the department.

How to Apply

Send cover letter, c.v. and list of references to Professor Markus Nornes, Chair, Department of Screen Arts & Cultures. Review of applications will commence immediately and the anticipated date by which an offer will be made is mid-April 2011. Apply here.