POSITION:

Assistant Professor, full-time, tenure track. Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

DUTIES:

Teach undergraduate and graduate music theory courses, including aural skills and basic keyboard harmony; advise master’s theses and doctoral monographs and dissertations. Maintain research and publication profile commensurate with expectations of a research extensive university. Serve on college/university committees as necessary.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Doctorate in music, documented success in the classroom, and a demonstrated record of publication success required for appointment at the assistant professor level.

APPOINTMENT DATE:

August, 2009.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

The LSU School of Music offers a comprehensive music program with nearly 500 majors. It has approximately 50 faculty, 10 professional staff, and 75 graduate assistants.  It sponsors nearly 300 recitals, concerts, operas, and lectures each academic year.  Degrees offered include the PhD (with concentrations in composition, music education, musicology, and music theory), DMA (concentrations in performance and choral, wind, and orchestral conducting), MM, BM, BME, and BA (Liberal Arts).

LSU has an enrollment of over 28,000 students and is located in Baton Rouge, the state capital of Louisiana and a city with a metropolitan area population of approximately 500,000.  The city supports a symphony orchestra, a ballet company, and a professional theatre.

DEADLINE:

Screening will begin immediately and continue until position is filled.  For full consideration, please submit materials by November 3, 2008. 

APPLICATION:

Candidates should submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, recent recording(s), and three letters of recommendation to: