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Lecturer of Japanese Kennesaw State University is now accepting applications for a full-time, non-tenure track faculty position as Lecturer of Japanese in the Department of World Languages and Cultures in the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences with a preferred start date of August 2025. This is a nine-month contracted position.  This position is for work to be performed in the state of Georgia. A commitment to excellence in teaching and service to the university, department and/or discipline is expected of all non-tenure track faculty.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: Teaching undergraduate courses in Japanese Language and Culture. Assignments may also include teaching courses in the area of the candidate's specialization in English geared toward Asian Studies majors and Modern Language and Culture majors. The position also requires some departmental service commitments such as organizing co-curricular activities, program recruitment, and limited committee work. The current typical teaching load is 4/5 for the year. Teaching assignments will be based on earned degrees and SACSCOC Faculty Credentials Guidelines. Required Qualifications Include A minimum of a Master's degree, or the foreign equivalent, in Japanese or a closely related discipline is required. The required degree must be earned by [...]

Description The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) at the University of Chicago invites applications for a position as Director of the Japanese Language Program with an expected start date of September 1, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Senior Instructional Professor, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, or Senior Instructional Professor, commensurate with experience and qualifications. The initial appointment is for a minimum term of 3 years, although longer initial appointments may be possible depending on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate. The position is renewable upon successful review. The selected candidate will serve as Japanese Language Program Director (LPD), which serves approximately 100 students annually at 4 levels of instruction. The LPD is responsible for overseeing the curriculum and budget for the program, the placement and assessment of students, co-curricular programming, and the supervision and review of a staff of 3 unionized Instructional Professors. The LPD typically teaches 4 courses per year (on the quarter system) in the program, and may be asked to take on limited administrative or management responsibilities outside of the Japanese Language Program. Qualifications Minimum requirements include ACTFL Advanced-High proficiency [...]

Position Type: Fixed Term (Fixed Term) Salary Range: Rank and Salary Rank: Assistant Teaching Professor. The salary range is $80,008 to $88,883. Offers within that range will be based on years of university teaching experience at the university/college level. The position provides generous benefits. https://www.scu.edu/hr/benefits/ The University has established a rental assistance program for which assistant teaching professors are eligible to apply. For details, please refer to: https://www.scu.edu/media/offices/provost/faculty-affairs/compensation-support/housing/SCU-Faculty-Rental-Assistance-Program-for-Assistant-&-Associate-Teaching-Professors-and-JST-Lecturers-and-Law-School-Assistant-&-Associate-Clinical-Faculty.pdf Purpose: The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university, invites applications for a full-time, renewable, non-tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Teaching Professor in Japanese Language and Culture, with a main or secondary specialization in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, translation and interpretation, Japanese for the professions, and/or Cultural Studies. The successful candidate must demonstrate superior ability to integrate the teaching of language, cultural awareness, and critical thinking at all levels of instruction, expertise with proficiency and Standards-based assessment, and creativity in course design and development so as to contribute to our department’s continued efforts to promote global competence in the Jesuit model of education. The appointment start date is September 1, 2025. The expected teaching load is seven undergraduate [...]

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 [...]

APPLICATION TIMELINE: Application review will begin on September 15, 2024 and will continue until the position is filled. ABOUT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY: The United States Naval Academy is a unique institution of higher learning located in desirable Annapolis, Maryland. As an historic officer accession program and premier undergraduate college, the United States Naval Academy has its own distinctive niche amongst American educational institutions. Our talented faculty and staff are united by one common purpose--to develop the next generation of leaders for our naval service. To deliver on this promise to our nation, we recruit from all segments of society to find faculty, instructors, and support staff who model the highest professional standards. The United States Naval Academy is committed to building a diverse workforce who collaborate to provide a multi-disciplinary and hands-on approach to student learning and leadership development. We believe that individuals from diverse backgrounds strengthen our programs and positively impact student success. We encourage qualified applicants from all backgrounds to apply for consideration. Every year more than one million people tour "the Yard" to experience what our employees already know — the United States Naval Academy is a special place, with a special purpose. Those selected for employment will find [...]

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 Program in Asian Studies at Bates College invites applications for a one-semester position at the rank of Lecturer in Japanese, beginning January 2025 and ending in April 2025.  We seek applicants with expertise in teaching intermediate and advanced Japanese language courses.  The successful candidate will teach two courses in the Winter 2025 Semester: Intermediate Japanese II and Advanced Topics in Japanese (potentially Business Japanese).  Additional responsibilities include supervising a language assistant and contributing to co-curricular programming. Bates students come from a diversity of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds, and we are committed to each student’s success.   Thus, candidates may choose to share evidence of their skills and experience supporting a diverse student body either in a separate, additional document or integrated into the teaching statement. We encourage applications from individuals from historically marginalized groups and from those who may have followed non-traditional pathways to higher education due to societal, economics, or academic circumstances. Applicants may choose to describe the breadth of their teaching repertoire, for example, how they worked with, or plan to work with, historically underrepresented, first-generation, and marginalized student populations.  Consideration of applications will begin on September 16, 2024 and continue until the position is filled. Qualifications [...]

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 [...]