What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visiting Assistant Professor >>> position at Tulane University School of Medicine?
The Digital Media Practices Program at Tulane University in New Orleans seeks a Visiting Assistant Professor (1-year appointment, nonrenewable) to begin July 2026.
We seek someone with proven experience teaching beginner and intermediate video production classes, focusing on building students’ technical competencies and digital storytelling skills.
The introductory class covers all aspects of digital filmmaking from concept to final delivery, including elements of pre-production, production, post-production, and editing across narrative, documentary, and experimental genres. The intermediate class focuses on Narrative Filmmaking. We prefer candidates with experience editing in AVID (or a willingness to learn before August 2026), as well as be familiar with industry standards and practices.
The successful candidate will teach be DMPC 2001: Intro to Digital Filmmaking (4 sections), DMPC 2002: Narrative Filmmaking (2 sections), and additional classes as needed. All classes are taught in person. Additional responsibilities include curricular planning and coordination with the other members of the Digital Media Practices Program, as well as advising students academically and professionally.
Tulane’s Digital Media Practices Program educates students in the art, craft, and technology of the inherently interdisciplinary field of Digital Media. The program offers intensive, hands-on production experience through courses dedicated to film and audio production, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, cinematography, color-grading, and video art. The Digital Media Practices program is co-curricular with the Communication and Cinema Studies, English, Theater & Dance, Art, and Music Departments. Students may choose from a wide array of courses in one of several focus areas such as: Narrative Filmmaking, Documentary and Non-fiction Filmmaking, Sound Practice, Interactive Media, and Creative Coding. Many of our students choose to write, cast, produce, direct, shoot, and edit their own short films in fulfillment of their senior capstone project requirement.
We seek someone with proven experience teaching beginner and intermediate video production classes, focusing on building students’ technical competencies and digital storytelling skills.
The introductory class covers all aspects of digital filmmaking from concept to final delivery, including elements of pre-production, production, post-production, and editing across narrative, documentary, and experimental genres. The intermediate class focuses on Narrative Filmmaking. We prefer candidates with experience editing in AVID (or a willingness to learn before August 2026), as well as be familiar with industry standards and practices.
The successful candidate will teach be DMPC 2001: Intro to Digital Filmmaking (4 sections), DMPC 2002: Narrative Filmmaking (2 sections), and additional classes as needed. All classes are taught in person. Additional responsibilities include curricular planning and coordination with the other members of the Digital Media Practices Program, as well as advising students academically and professionally.
Tulane’s Digital Media Practices Program educates students in the art, craft, and technology of the inherently interdisciplinary field of Digital Media. The program offers intensive, hands-on production experience through courses dedicated to film and audio production, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, cinematography, color-grading, and video art. The Digital Media Practices program is co-curricular with the Communication and Cinema Studies, English, Theater & Dance, Art, and Music Departments. Students may choose from a wide array of courses in one of several focus areas such as: Narrative Filmmaking, Documentary and Non-fiction Filmmaking, Sound Practice, Interactive Media, and Creative Coding. Many of our students choose to write, cast, produce, direct, shoot, and edit their own short films in fulfillment of their senior capstone project requirement.