The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (100% FTE) tenure-track assistant professor position. We seek a scholar whose innovative research is at the intersection of media, technology, and society. The expected start date is August 16, 2027. This search is part of a cluster hiring initiative in the College of Media, with each of it's academic department- Advertising, Journalism, and Media Cinema Studies- conducting an independent search for an assistant professor whose scholarship and teaching align with the priorities of their respective departments. Ideal candidates for the Media and Cinema Studies position will possess the potential for high-quality research, publication, and teaching. We are particularly interested in candidates who draw on interdisciplinary bodies of media theory, and may engage with qualitative, quantitative, historical, interpretive, computational, or mixed-methods approaches. Applicants’ research should demonstrate a capacity for methodological rigor and intellectual creativity, including, but not limited to: New Media theory or historiography: critical, cultural and/or historical approaches to media studies. Media forms: video game studies, television studies, sound studies, social networks, interactive media. Media industries: convergence, platforms, labor, production cultures, political economy, network infrastructure studies, governance, public policy. Media democracy: publics and counter-publics, social inequalities justice, gender new media, race technology, eco-criticism, media impacts on historically underserved groups. International, global and/or transnational media: forms, industries, audiences, practices. New media in everyday life: audience fan studies, smart objects, media in relation to environments and space. New directions in media praxis.