Assistant or Associate Professor of Practice, Fashion Media

Location: Dallas, Texas, United States · Employment Type: Full time · Start Date: August 2027

About the role

The Division of Journalism seeks candidates for a professor of practice position to teach in the division's popular Fashion Media program beginning August 2027. The successful candidate will join the division at an exciting period of expansion and innovation, and must be an engaged teacher and mentor with significant industry experience in storytelling across current and emerging platforms.

Specifically, we seek candidates with a background in social media content production, ideally with experience concepting and executing multi-media fashion-related content and promotion. Ideally, individuals will have worked for fashion and lifestyle outlets or brands and be familiar with audience engagement techniques.

We are especially interested in candidates who bring a collaborative spirit, a commitment to ethical and inclusive storytelling across creative media for current and emerging platforms (including social media and experiential events), a willingness to share their professional networks as part of their work with students, and the ability to develop internships and media partnerships.

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private university dedicated to academic excellence, located in Dallas with approximately 12,000 students. The Meadows School of the Arts, founded in 1969, is one of the foremost arts and communication education institutions in the United States. The Division of Journalism, housed within Meadows, offers degrees in Fashion Media and Journalism, along with business and sports journalism concentrations.

Responsibilities

• Teach classes such as Fashion & Digital Culture, Fashion Promotion, and Fashion Journalism
• Develop social media production courses
• Lead content creation labs
• Develop internships and media partnerships
• Share professional networks with students
• Mentor students and contribute to a collaborative, inclusive learning environment

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a fashion-, communication-, or journalism-related field required; a Master's degree is preferred but not required
• Five years producing storytelling content within the fashion and lifestyle realms
• Content-creation experience with a national or international brand
• Ability to teach both hands-on and theoretical courses involving fashion promotion and social media content creation

Skills

We're especially interested in hearing from applicants who have:

• Prior collegiate-level teaching experience
• Significant fashion or lifestyle brand experience
• A passion for both emerging technologies like AI and traditional media like magazines