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Department of Cinema and Media Arts, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design

The Department of Cinema and Media Arts in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University invites highly qualified applicants for an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream position in Showrunning & Screenwriting for Media Industries. This is a tenure-track appointment to the Teaching Stream to commence July 1, 2025.

Our mission is to inspire and launch the next generation of content creators across an ever-growing global media industry. Our expert faculty, industry-leading facilities, and a diverse and passionate student and alum community have increased demand and interest in Canada’s only undergraduate BFA screenwriting degree and first graduate MFA screenwriting degree, all embedded in one of Canada’s most prestigious arts faculties, AMPD  https : / / ampd.yorku.ca / .

The successful candidate

• will have an established record of professional experience demonstrating exceptional skill in showrunning, screenwriting, and developing and producing narrative stories for on-screen industries.
• should have a variety of recent accomplishments (in the last five years) as Showrunner and / or Screenwriter and Producer, preferably in both

o established media (e.g., screenwriting and producing for serial television and / or narrative feature films) and

o emerging media (e.g., interactive media [AR, VR, gaming], transmedia platforms, web-based stories).

We welcome a wide-ranging and inclusive approach to story and storytelling including critical race, post-colonial, Indigenous, feminist, and other critical approaches to showrunning, screenwriting and producing. Responding to increasing calls for diversity in both representation and practice and following both our Department Action plan and University priorities, a record of professional experience collaborating with IBPOC (Indigenous, Black, People of Colour) artists and communities is a significant asset. We acknowledge that within higher education in Canada, traditional or conventional academic and artistic pathways can reinforce biases in the filling of faculty posts. We encourage applications that may not fit all of the following qualifications and that challenge our ideas of teaching, scholarship, research, and artistic practice. We are particularly interested in colleagues who bring experience in facilitating equity, diversity, and inclusion practices within their teaching practices, and which may include contexts outside of academia, including artistic praxis and community-based work.

Candidate Qualifications :

Degree : MFA in Screenwriting (or equivalent Master’s degree such as an MA or MBA) and / or a substantial record of professional experience in showrunning and / or screenwriting and producing, preferably for multiple platforms, is required.

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Learn More About York :

York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.