<nettime-ann> digital humanities dartmouth

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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Dartmouth College is pleased to announce the creation of a senior 
position in the Digital Humanities for a newly endowed Chair in 
innovative fields. The successful applicant should be committed to 
inter-disciplinary collaboration, technological innovation, and 
creating curricular links within the Humanities and across divisions. 
The position offers the opportunity to define a new area of research 
and teaching, building on Dartmouth’s existing strengths in the 
Humanities and Computing,

The field of research and teaching is open; we seek candidates with 
practical and/or theoretical expertise in one or several of the 
following disciplines in the Arts and the Humanities: visual arts, 
screen studies, new media, performance arts, music and sound, film, 
TV/Video, and literature. Expertise in computer hardware and/or 
software will be welcome but is not essential.

The role of the Chair in Digital Humanities is intended to be broad in 
scope, potentially incorporating current or future initiatives in 
cyber-culture and the creation, performance, and critical study of 
digital arts, including a consideration of the socio-political and 
theoretical implications of new artistic technologies. The endowment 
for this Chair provides additional funds for projects involving 
research and teaching in the Digital Humanities. The successful 
candidate will be located in a single Dartmouth department or program, 
or jointly appointed to one or more departments or programs. 
Considerable flexibility exists regarding joint appointments, which may 
cross departmental or even divisional boundaries.

One of the most diverse institutions of higher education in New 
England, Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/ affirmative action 
employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. In that spirit, we 
are particularly interested in receiving applications from a broad 
spectrum of people, including women, persons of color, persons with 
disabilities, and veterans.

The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications after October 1, 
2006. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Please send letter of application, CV, and the names of three 
references to:

Gerd Gemünden
Chair Search Committee in Digital Humanities
Dept. of German Studies
6084 Dartmouth Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755 USA

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Digital Humanities Chair Will Address Emerging Field

Through funding from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, a longtime 
benefactor of the College, Dartmouth has created the new post of 
Digital Humanities Chair, one of two Distinguished Professorships in 
Emerging Fields in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences endowed by the 
foundation.

The Digital Humanities Chair, a senior-level appointment for which a 
national search is being conducted, was created to lead Dartmouth's 
efforts to integrate digital culture and innovation with the humanities 
across disciplinary and departmental lines. Professor of German Studies 
Gerd Gemünden, who chairs the search committee, explains, "The digital 
revolution affects all fields-how we learn, how we write. By creating 
the new chair, we are acknowledging the significance of the digital 
revolution."

Carol Folt, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences and professor of 
biological sciences, says the College was motivated by a need to 
integrate constantly evolving technology with its long-standing 
commitment to the humanities. "In creating the Digital Humanities 
Chair, the Dartmouth administration is seeking an academic of the 
highest caliber who can coalesce nascent efforts, build on core 
strengths ripe for advancement, effect major changes in curriculum and 
scholarly development, and influence global discourse," she says.

Gemünden says the position is open to scholars from a wide variety of 
disciplines and that the job will require the new chair to work across 
disciplines and help coalesce the digital humanities work already 
underway at Dartmouth. The new chair could be housed in almost any 
department, or possibly be a dual appointment.
A second innovative faculty position is in development at Dartmouth as 
provided for by the Sherman Fairchild Foundation's grant.

Already, several other institutions of higher learning have begun 
exploring similar models of integrating digital and analog culture. The 
Center for New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, and the 
MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences are serving as curricular means 
of exploring the relationship between the humanities and information 
technologies. Given the scale and ubiquity of the digital revolution, 
Dartmouth's new chair will work in a challenging field. As Gemünden 
notes, "The classes of 2008 and 2009 have never really lived without 
Google. That puts the burden of learning on us."
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