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Japanese Language and Literature, 2008-2009 job cycle[]
After last year's bumper crop of positions, this is looking like a far less promising job market (if you're a modernist, and don't have Chinese under your belt, even more so). So, please add any positions (TT, VAP, or otherwise) as you become aware of them!
This year's jobs[]
Lang/lit TT
- Augustana College (deadline 10/23/2008)
- MLA interview scheduled
- Earlham College (deadline 1 December)
- University of Evansville (deadline 15 November)
- Linfield College (30 November)
- Murray State (deadline 15 January)
- U of Pittsburgh (pre-modern lit; deadline 3 November)
- San José State (deadline 14 November)
- SUNY Binghamton (pre-modern lit; deadline 15 November)
- U of the South (deadline 16 January)
- U of Wisconsin Oshkosh (deadline 12 November)
- phone interview (mid Dec)
- Whitman College (deadline 3 November)
Chinese and Japanese lang/lit TT
- Auburn (Chinese and Japanese lang/lit; deadline 5 November)
- Denison (Chinese and Japanese lang/lit; deadline 21 November)
Linguistics/pedagogy TT
- Cal State Fullerton (pedagogy/methodology; deadline 1 November)
- U of Kentucky (Japanese SLA; deadline 15 October)
- phone interview (early Nov)
- campus interview (end of Nov)
- Loyola Marymount (applied linguistics, Japanese or Chinese + either French, German, Italian, or Spanish; deadline 31 October)
- phone interview (early Dec)
- MLA interview scheduled
VAP
- UNC Greensboro (deadline 1 November)
- St. John's University (MN) (deadline 1 December)
Last year's successful candidates![]
- U of Alberta: Mikael Adolphson (Ph.D. Stanford; from Harvard)
- Bridgewater State: Minae Savas (Ph.D. Ohio State)
- Brown: Samuel Perry (Ph.D. Chicago)
- UC Riverside: Annmaria Shimabuku (Ph.D. Cornell)
- UC Santa Barbara: Ann-Elise Lewallen (Ph.D. Michigan) and Michael Emmerich (Ph.D. Columbia)
- Carthage College: Yan Wang (Ph.D. Wisconsin)
- U of Chicago: No hire
- Colgate: Kristina Vassil (Ph.D. Michigan)
- CU Boulder: No hire
- Connecticut College: Sayumi Takahashi (Ph.D. Penn; from University of the South)
- Cornell University: Janice Kanemitsu (Ph.D. UC Berkeley)
- Gustavus Adolphus: Lianying Shan (Ph.D. Princeton)
- McGill (lit): Adrienne Hurley (Ph.D. UC Irvine; from University of Iowa)
- McGill (pop culture): Yuriko Furuhata (Ph.D. Brown)
- Middle Tennessee State: Priya Ananth (Ph.D. Ohio State)
- Montana State: Peter Tillack (Ph.D. Oregon)
- UNC Charlotte: no hire
- Oregon: Jason Webb (Ph.D. Princeton; from University of Tokyo)
- Penn State: Jonathan Abel (Ph.D. Princeton; from Bowling Green)
- San Jose State: no hire
- Skidmore: Masami Tamagawa (VAP) (Ph.D. CUNY)
- Vermont: Kyle Ikeda (Ph.D. Hawai'i)
- Washington State: William Brecher (Ph.D. USC)