Job Description

Date Posted: 05/08/2024
Req ID: 48017
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Cinema Studies
Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

Course number and title: CIN431H1F - Cinema That Doesn't Work

Course description: This course explores how cinema has historically absorbed and reflected the boundaries between work and play, and how these questions also reflect anxieties about constructing and maintaining boundaries between race, class, and gender. Students will track cinema’s rise to the status of a medium worthy of analysis inside and outside the classroom; examine cinematic depictions of downtime and leisure; explore various independent film movements’ relationship to the art of making cinema as acts of labor or devotion; consider recent non-productive formal and ethical approaches to cinema such as the slow cinema movement and recent queer/crip critiques of ableist cinema. The course will also consider whether, in the age of communicative capitalism, we are ever really off-the-clock.

Estimated course enrolment: 19 students

Estimated TA support: N/A

Class schedule: Monday 10:00 - 14:00

*Please note, the delivery method for this course is currently In Person. The course delivery method may change as determined by the Faculty or the Institute.

Sessional dates of appointment: September 1 - December 31, 2026.

Salary:

Sessional Lecturer I: $ 9,997.48

Sessional Lecturer I, Long Term: $10,699.22

Sessional Lecturer II: $10,699.22

Sessional Lecturer III: $11,228.90

Please note that should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Minimum qualifications:

• MA in Cinema/Film required
• At least 5 years of experience teaching cinema at the university level, with a concentration on film history, theory, and/or analysis.
• At least 5 years of experience marking undergraduate essays in cinema.
• Evidence of recent teaching effectiveness.
• Ability to teach online if public health issues require.

Preferred qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in literature on leisure, work, and film theory.

of duties: The Sessional Lecturer will follow the broad outline of the syllabus that has been established for the course, using any textbooks/films that may have been ordered. Revisions and/or updates to the curriculum should be discussed with the Director. They will lecture, grade assignments, hold office hours each week, and answer queries by email or appointment.

Application instructions: Those interested should email a curriculum vitae (PDF) and the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 application form to hr.csi@utoronto.ca.

Closing Date: 06/07/2026, 11:59PM EDT

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This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 Collective Agreement.

It is understood that some announcements of vacancies are tentative, pending final course determinations and enrolment. Should rates stipulated in the collective agreement vary from rates stated in this posting, the rates stated in the collective agreement shall prevail.

Preference in hiring is given to qualified individuals advanced to the rank of Sessional Lecturer II or Sessional Lecturer III in accordance with Article 14:12 of the CUPE 3902 Unit 3 collective agreement.

Please note: Undergraduate or graduate students and postdoctoral fellows of the University of Toronto are covered by the CUPE 3902 Unit 1 collective agreement rather than the Unit 3 collective agreement, and should not apply for positions posted under the Unit 3 collective agreement.