Affiliated Faculty Member | Creativity in Context | Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts

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Job Number: JR008967 Join our community and experience Emerson College! The Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts at Emerson College is accepting applications from candidates who could teach IN 150 - First Year Seminar: Creativity in Context in the Fall 2026 semester, September 2 -December 17, 2026. This course meets twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00 pm to 5:45 pm. Course Description Why do people create? Literature, film, art, and psychology provide the conceptual framework for solving the mystery of the creative impulse. What are the hallmarks of the creative personality? Is there a causal relationship between mental illness and artistry? How does the larger community of artists-muses, collaborators, and competitors-inspire an individual creator? Must artists be motivated by a sense of duty to society? Orwell's Why I Write, Hemingway's A Movable Feast, Plath's journals, and interviews with artists from the Beatles to Joan Didion to Francis Ford Coppola further illuminate the inspirations, motives, and processes of great artists. The course fulfills the interdisciplinary perspective requirement of the liberal arts. The Student Learning Outcomes for the First-Year Seminars in Interdisciplinary Studies can be found at this link to the course catalog. The successful candidate(s) must have the ability to work effectively with faculty, students, and staff from diverse backgrounds. Emerson College is committed to an active, intentional, and ongoing engagement with diversity-in people, in the curriculum, in the co-curriculum, and in the college's intellectual, social, cultural, and geographical communities. Emerson endorses a framework of inclusive excellence, which recognizes that institutional excellence comes from fully engaging with diversity in all aspects of institutional activities. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can demonstrate through their teaching, research, and service that they can contribute to our excel

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