Junior Professorship "Digital Music Cultures" (W1 with tenure track W2)

About us

In School III – Linguistics and Cultural Studies, research and teaching focus on analysing and interpreting language, literature, art, music, and everyday culture. The school benefits from a remarkable combination of philologies with cultural studies and arts-related disciplines and a diverse range of interdisciplinary options. This also includes participation in a university-wide initiative to establish the  Digital Social Sciences and Humanities (DSSH).

The Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg is one of the largest music institutes in Lower Saxony. It brings together musicological, music-pedagogical, and artistic‑practical perspectives in both research and teaching. The institute is characterized by a close integration of musicology, music education, and music practice, and it offers a broad spectrum of study programmes for teacher training as well as for subject‑specific academic degrees. Central themes are music in social contexts, musical participation, digitalisation, hearing research, cultural‑historical perspectives, and the analysis of musical practices ranging from school instruction to popular and transcultural settings. A further defining feature is the link between science and artistic practice, which is reflected in numerous projects and collaborations with cultural institutions.

Your tasks

• The focus areas of your new position are research and teaching in the field of digital music cultures. The professorship is expected to develop the institute's profile in the field of Digital Humanities, in conjunction with its core focus on cultural and media studies. You strengthen the institute/department team-oriented in research and teaching.
• You actively work on cooperation or collaboration projects in the field of Digital Humanities and are expected to contribute to the university’s planned cross-faculty initiative for Digital Social Sciences and Humanities (DSSH), with a particular focus on the key areas of Culture and Literacy. 
• You develop networks and cooperations with practice partners (such as in business, education, culture, and politics) from the field of digital music cultures.
• You mentor and promote the academic career development of students and employees.
• In teaching, the professorship is responsible for conducting courses that address cultural and media‑studies perspectives on music within the degree programmes in which the Institute of Music participates.
• You are involved in the coordination and further development of all music-related degree programmes (M.A. Integrated Media, as well as the dual-subject Bachelor in Music, M.A. Musicology, M.Ed. Grundschule, M.Ed Haupt-/Realschule, M.Ed. Special Education, and M.Ed. Gymnasium) and contribute to the academic profiling in the field of Digital Humanities. You design and oversee innovative teaching offerings that convey the interface between digital methods and a critical research perspective. Upon successful completion of the tenure-track process, you will assume primary responsibility for the Integrated Media degree program from the beginning of the W2 professorship.
• You offer courses in German and English language.
• As the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg are connected by a cooperation agreement, active participation in the cooperation is expected.
• You participate in academic self-governance.
• You promote a university culture that is diverse and equitable.

Your profile

Required:

• You meet the appointment requirements specified in section 30 of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act (NHG).
• You are in the early stages of your career and have a PhD in musicology, media studies, cultural studies, or a related discipline with relevance to the denomination.
• You have a distinct research profile in the field of digital music cultures, focusing on Digital Humanities, and you are capable of further developing it.
• You also have teaching experience in music, cultural, or media studies, demonstrable through relevant university courses.
• You demonstrate your ability to connect to the described research and teaching areas in a research concept of up to 4 pages and a teaching concept of up to 2 pages. Both concepts should also address your contribution to the DSSH focus.
• You have initial experience in competitive third-party funding.
• You have a cooperative working style that promotes a diverse and equitable working environment.
• You have initial experience in mentoring and promoting academic career development.
• You have very good English language skills in spoken and written form and German proficiency that is close to native-speaker level. If you do not have these skills, you are willing to acquire sufficient language skills within two years after appointment.

Desirable:

• You have experience with empirical methods in cultural studies (e.g., qualitative research, ethnography), evidenced by relevant publications.
• Your research focus lies in music within global, non‑Western, post‑colonial, or diasporic contexts, as well as in historically marginalised music cultures.
• You have successfully carried out collaborations with practice partners in the field of digital music cultures.
• You possess experience in interdisciplinary and international cooperation.

We offer

• A creative, international and inspiring working environment. We promote interdisciplinary cooperation within the university, with universities and research institutions around the world, as well as renowned university institutes and external research institutions.
• A wide service and advisory offers, e.g. for international researchers, for reconciling family and work or for applying for national, European and international research funding.
• In addition, the university’s Library and Information System (BIS) provides specific services for Digital Humanities.
• A diverse range of further education offered for all career levels, as well as services for occupational health promotion.
• A certified family-friendly university on a lively and sustainable campus with good infrastructure.
• Regional, national, and international practice-oriented collaborations.

Our standards

The University is committed to adhering to transparent quality-assured processes.

We aspire to increase the proportion of female professors and encourage women to apply. Women will be given preference in the selection process in case of equal qualifications.

Applications from people with disabilities or those with equal status will be given preference in the selection process in case of equal suitability, qualifications and performance. To protect your interests, please indicate in your application letter whether you have a disability or equal status.