Job Opportunities

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Swarthmore College invites applications for a Lecturer of Japanese. The position will start in August 2025. This is a non-tenure track position; the initial appointment is for one year with an opportunity for multi-year renewal contingent upon a successful review. Responsibilities include the teaching of Japanese at all levels and the participation in Japanese Section meetings and activities. In addition to teaching courses in our main four-year language track, there may be opportunities for teaching elective courses such as Japanese Conversation, Extensive Readings in Japanese, and Japanese Calligraphy. The Japanese program is a vibrant component of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, offering students four years of rigorous Japanese language instruction, courses in Japanese literature, film, and linguistics, and numerous co-curricular study opportunities. Located in the suburbs of Philadelphia and near Wilmington DE, Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility. Swarthmore has a strong institutional commitment to diversity, and actively seeks and welcomes applications from candidates with exceptional qualifications, particularly those with demonstrable commitments to a more inclusive society and world. Applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. [...]

Yale | East Asian Languages and Literatures Search AY ‘24-25 Position Title Lector/Senior Lector I, Japanese Position URL http://apply.interfolio.com/152585 Position Description The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University seeks a Lector/Senior Lector I in Japanese language with a 3-year full-time appointment starting on July 1, 2025 and continuing until June 30, 2028. Renewal is contingent on excellent performance and sufficient enrollments. Primary duties include teaching six courses or the equivalent per year, which can be realized through teaching five term courses in the language sequence with a sixth equivalent of effort in, for example, administration and course coordination. Salary and rank are commensurate with experience and qualifications. If the initial appointment is at the rank of Lector, a promotion review for Senior Lector I must take place in the fifth year or earlier. Senior lectors at Yale are expected to participate in teaching-related professional activities (e.g., workshops, seminars, training activities, conferences) and have no limits on reappointment, provided there is successful performance and ongoing curricular need. Lectors are eligible for Yale’s generous package of benefits, including health coverage, and they are encouraged to participate in the wide range of professional development opportunities offered through the Center [...]

The Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) invites applications for a position as full-time Instructor in Japanese Language, beginning Fall 2025. The initial appointment will be for two years, renewable for an additional three years (and thereafter at three-year intervals) depending on the candidate’s successful teaching and the Program’s curricular needs. AKP is a study abroad program housed at Doshisha University in Kyoto and operated by a consortium of 13 U.S. liberal arts institutions, including Amherst, Bates, Carleton, Colby, Connecticut, Mount Holyoke, Oberlin, Pomona, Smith, Whitman, and Williams Colleges, and Bucknell and Wesleyan Universities. AKP follows a U.S. academic calendar with fall and spring semesters. Instructors are required to be on campus for the eight months that AKP is in session, generally from the beginning of September until the end of April, and should also be available for occasional meetings prior to and following the AKP academic year. For more information about AKP, please visit our website at www.associatedkyotoprogram.org. The main responsibility of the position is to teach one intensive Japanese language course each semester, which will meet for ten 50-minute sessions per week; and one 50-minute skill development course per week. Other responsibilities include weekly office hours, curricular planning and development, [...]

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for up to two positions in Japanese literature or a closely related humanities field at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.  The period of specialization is open, but a focus on modern and/or contemporary Japan (19th century to the present), or work that bridges the conventional premodern/modern divide is preferred. Candidates with expertise in digital humanities, environmental humanities, medical humanities, print culture and/or new media, or translation studies are particularly encouraged to apply, as are candidates who work on Japan in global or transnational perspective. The successful candidate should be willing to aid the department in creating further synergies with other departments and programs on campus, including but not limited to Comparative Literature and Thought, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Performing Arts, Film and Media Studies, Religious Studies, History and/or Global Studies. A Ph.D. in Japanese literature or a related humanities field at the time of appointment and native or near-native fluency in both English and Japanese are required of all candidates. Candidates for Associate Professor should have an outstanding teaching, service, and publication record commensurate with tenure at that rank.  Duties will include [...]

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor in Japanese literature before the modern period. The position is to begin August 1, 2025. Any scholar working in Japanese materials from earliest literary history to the end of the Edo period is welcome to apply. Expectations include the ability to teach broadly across the whole range of Japanese literature before the Meiji period. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the ability to teach classical Japanese. We have particular interest in those able to teach in translation studies. The scholar in this position will contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs of the department. The teaching load is two courses per semester. To ensure full consideration, please submit: a cover letter including a description of training, current and future research plans, and teaching capabilities; Curriculum Vitae; a 25-30 page writing sample (published article or work-in-progress); and two (2) sample syllabi, one in the area of specialization and one in a survey literature course for undergraduate students; official transcripts of graduate studies; and contact information for three (3) references who will be asked [...]