User:Joseph C. Forte

I am heading the search for a humanities oriented professor of Cinema Studies for Fall 2015. To quote Wikipedia (an article I helped edit:)

"Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, 15 miles (24 km) north of Manhattan.[3] [4]

The college is known for its rigorous academic standards, low student-to-faculty ratio, and highly individualized course of study. The school models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials, which are a key component in all areas of study. Sarah Lawrence emphasizes scholarship, particularly in the humanities, performing arts, and writing, and places a high value on independent study. Sarah Lawrence College is ranked among National Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News & World Report and among the America's Top 100 Colleges List conducted by Forbes."

We have been very successful hiring people who have come to academic life after a varied work experience or who have been DENIED tenure at major research insitututions, usually because of lack of publications, but who demonstrate prowess as teachers and whose published work shows intellectual sophistication. In short we prefer quality to quantity. We were so late in advertising this position because it was necessitated by the sudden and tragic passing of our beloved colleague Gilberto Perez --  regular contributor to the Nation and London Review of Books, and the author in mid career of an extraordinary book, The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium (Johns Hopkins, 1998.)

Gilberto is a good example of the kind of person who prospers at Sarah Lawrence. I look forward to any questions or responses.

Thanks very much, Joseph C. Forte