2023W1 Visual Art (VISA 340 - 001) Sessional Lectureships

2023W1 Visual Art (VISA 340 – 001) Sessional Lectureships

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) invites applications for part-time sessional lecturers.

2023 Winter Term 1 (September 1 to December 31, 2023), Wednesday(s) 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

VISA 340 (001) — Intermediate Photography I

An investigation of approaches to photography and its meaning in the context of contemporary art. The term
theme will be determined by the instructor. B & W, colour and digital production.

A minimum of an MFA is required, and preference will be given to applicants with post-secondary teaching experience and a record that provides evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applicants from both inside and outside UBC are encouraged. The minimum salary for a three-credit course in the Faculty of Arts is currently $7,962.24.

Applicants must submit their application at https://ahva.air.arts.ubc.ca/visa-sessional-lectureship-application/ and upload the following in the order listed within a single PDF (max size 15MB):

  • cover letter
  • CV, which includes a record of experience and a detailed list of all post-secondary courses taught (course name and number, length, credit value, dates, and teaching responsibilities)
  • sample course outline(s)\
  • evidence of teaching effectiveness (i.e., teaching evaluations, if available)

Applicants should also arrange to have two confidential reference letters submitted by email to ahva.head@ubc.ca (or have them on file for incumbents). All materials should be received by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, August 7, 2023

For information, please visit www.ahva.ubc.ca

All positions are subject to availability of funds and will be governed by UBC’s “Agreement on Conditions of Appointment for Sessional Faculty Members.” The salary effective July 1, 2021 is $2,654.08 per credit, based off a nine-credit term. Therefore, a regular three-credit course in our department would be remunerated at $7,962.24

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

2023W2 Art History (ARTH 102) Sessional Lectureships

Winter 2023 Term 2 Art History (ARTH) Sessional Lectureships 

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) invites applications for part-time sessional lecturers.  

2023 Winter Term 2 (January 1 to April 30, 2024), Mondays, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm 

ARTH 102 (001) – Crisis and Contradiction in Art and the Built Environment 

Concepts and issues critical to the understanding of art and its histories in a global context. 

A minimum of a PhD (ABD) in Art History is required, and preference will be given to applicants with post-secondary teaching experience and a record that provides evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applicants from both inside and outside UBC are encouraged. The minimum salary for a three-credit course in the Faculty of Arts is currently $7,962.24.  

Applicants must submit their application at https://ahva.air.arts.ubc.ca/arth-sessional-lectureship-applications/ and upload the following in the order listed within a single PDF (max size 15MB): 

  • cover letter 
  • CV, which includes a record of experience and a detailed list of all post-secondary courses taught (course name and number, length, credit value, dates, and teaching responsibilities) 
  • sample course outline(s) 
  • evidence of teaching effectiveness (i.e., teaching evaluations, if available)

Applicants should also arrange to have two confidential reference letters submitted by email to ahva.head@ubc.ca (or have them on file for incumbents). All materials should be received by 9:00 a.m. on Monday, July 31, 2023. 

For information, please visit www.ahva.ubc.ca 

All positions are subject to availability of funds and will be governed by UBC’s “Agreement on Conditions of Appointment for Sessional Faculty Members.” The salary effective July 1, 2021 is $2,654.08 per credit, based off a nine-credit term. Therefore, a regular three-credit course in our department would be remunerated at $7,962.24 

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. 

Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz: Fragment, Image, and Absence in 1960s Japan

This groundbreaking book examines how the notion of “the object” was transformed in Japanese experimental art during a time of rapid social, economic, and environmental change.

Reviving the legacies of the historical avant-garde, Japanese artists and intellectuals of the 1960s formulated an aesthetics of disaffection through which they sought to address the stalemate of political and aesthetic representation. Ignacio A. Adriasola Muñoz draws from psychoanalytic theories of melancholia to examine the implications of such an approach, tracing a genealogy of disaffection within modernist discourse. By examining the discursive practices of artists working across a wide range of media, and through a close analysis of artwork, philosophical debates, artist theories, and critical accounts, Adriasola Muñoz shows how negativity became an efficacious means of addressing politics as a source for the creative act of undoing.

In examining ideas of the object advanced by artists and intellectuals both in writing and as part of their artwork, this book brings discussions in critical art history to bear on the study of art in Japan. It will be of interest to art historians specializing in modernism, the international avant-garde, Japanese art, and the history of photography.

For more information: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-09290-4.html

2023W1 Visual Art (VISA) Sessional Lectureships

The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) invites applications for part-time sessional lecturers.

2023 Winter Term 1 (September 1 to December 31, 2023)

VISA 390 (001) — Performance Art
VISA 480 (001) — Advanced Seminar I

Course descriptions are available here

A minimum of an MFA is required, and preference will be given to applicants with post-secondary teaching experience and a record that provides evidence of teaching effectiveness. Applicants from both inside and outside UBC are encouraged. The minimum salary for a three-credit course in the Faculty of Arts is currently $7,962.24.

Applicants must submit their application at https://ahva.air.arts.ubc.ca/application-for-visual-art-sessional-lectureships/ and upload the following in the order listed within a single PDF (max size 15MB):

  • cover letter
  • CV, which includes a record of experience and a detailed list of all post-secondary courses taught (course name and number, length, credit value, dates, and teaching responsibilities)
  • sample course outline(s)\
  • evidence of teaching effectiveness (i.e., teaching evaluations, if available)

Applicants should also arrange to have two confidential reference letters submitted by email to ahva.head@ubc.ca (or have them on file for incumbents). All materials should be received by 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

All positions are subject to availability of funds and will be governed by UBC’s “Agreement on Conditions of Appointment for Sessional Faculty Members.” The salary effective July 1, 2021 is $2,654.08 per credit, based off a nine-credit term. Therefore, a regular three-credit course in our department would be remunerated at $7,962.24

Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Erin Silver: Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Feminist Art in North America

Taking Place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the institutions they have inherited. Through a series of regional case studies, the book interrogates different understandings of ‘alternative’ space and the possibilities the term affords for queer and feminist artistic imaginaries.

For more information: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719096419/

 

Pamela MacKenzie

Leanne Warawa

Ji Eun (Camille) Sung

Alexi Paglinawan

Katy O’Malley