Preparing for an Academic Job Interview in the Arts, Design and the Humanities

Subtitle: How NOT to Blow Your Art, Design, or Humanities Academic Job Interview

Friday, October 19
3:00 pm–4:15 pm
Curry Hall, room 315

This free lecture by UNT CVAD Department of Design Professor Michael Gibson has been designed to help recent, soon-to-be recent, and eventual recipients of MFAs and PhDs in the following disciplines effectively prepare to do well during the academic job interview process.

Studio Arts
Design
Art Education
Art History
Literature
English
Anthropology
Sociology
Psychology
Merchandising & Hospitality Management
History
Performing Arts
Communication Studies
Political Science
Cultural Studies

James Thurman in Istanbul

Professor James Thurman just completed a tremendously productive and successful trip to Istanbul. His solo exhibition at Ayse Gallery was well-received, even resulting in an interview on CNN Turk, which was broadcast January 8, 2012.

The interview is available online but is dubbed in Turkish. In addition to the solo exhibition, James presented lectures and workshops at Mimar Sinan University, Kadir Has University, and Istanbul Technical University.

He will be returning in May to teach a workshop at The Glass Furnace and, if the Fulbright Specialist proposal is accepted, work with faculty at Kadir Has University on the evolution of the 3D design curriculum.

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Attention Graduate Students!

This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education highlights findings showing that those graduate students who teach do better in research than those who just work as research assistants. The lessons though would seem to be broadly applicable to us all and show that teaching reinforces research, which we know advances teaching.