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Please help me spread the word about a TT Assistant Prof. job opening in the<a href="https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/" title="https://www.sas.rochester.edu/mlc/"> Dept. of Modern Languages and Cultures</a>, Univ. of Rochester. The ad is available on UR, H-Net,
AAS and MLA job boards, am also pasting below. We were asked to define the position broadly as a preliminary step in expanding EA studies AT UR, courses/colleagues already in place in CJK language, culture, anthropology, religion, history:</div>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"><span> </span>The University of Rochester Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
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invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of East Asian Culture.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>We welcome applications from scholars whose work considers transcultural circulations both within East Asia and beyond its imagined borders. We are interested in, among other possibilities, Sinophonic and likeminded diasporic approaches, Afro-Asian studies,
transnational ecocriticism, the cultural productions of ethnic minority groups in East Asia, gender studies, and comparative analysis of East Asian literature, culture, media, and/or philosophy.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> <span> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alongside a concurrent search in East Asian art and art history,
this position represents a preliminary stage in a cluster hire initiative in East Asian Studies at the University of Rochester.</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The successful candidate will have the opportunity to participate in planning the future of a new direction in East Asian inquiry at the University of Rochester. The successful candidate
will be joining the MLC faculty in Japanese studies, Chinese studies, and Korean in addition to Chinese studies faculty in the Departments of Anthropology and Religion. Currently, MLC offers a major and minor in Japanese, a minor in Chinese, and a cluster
(a three-course concentration) in Korean.</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Undergraduate students also have the option of completing an East Asian Studies major or minor through the Multidisciplinary Studies Center.</span><o:p class="ContentPasted0" style="color: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0"><span> </span>The teaching load is two courses per semester.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>We encourage applications from scholars interested in teaching courses that extend beyond contemporary studies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>MLC faculty also teach core Comparative Literature courses for all department majors that introduce students to different approaches to cultural analysis. MLC faculty are encouraged to contribute to the University’s strong interdisciplinary programs
in the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Literary Translation Studies, Film and Media Studies, Digital Media Studies, and the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies. Scholars of Afro-Asian studies will benefit
from opportunities to collaborate with present and incoming colleagues in the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies.
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at least one East Asian language.</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif" class="ContentPasted0">To apply, visit
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and submit the following materials: a cover letter, a teaching statement with potential course offerings, a current CV, a chapter-length writing sample, and three letters of recommendation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>The application should be addressed to the “East Asian Culture Search Committee.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>Application review will begin immediately following the November 1, 2022 deadline and will continue until the position is filled.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>Preliminary interviews will take place by Zoom.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>Appointment effective July 1, 2023 with teaching duties beginning August 2023.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
</span>Please address questions pertaining to this search to Professor Will Bridges at
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in higher education as well as candidates with a demonstrated commitment to diversity and equity.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">Joanne Bernardi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;color:black">University of Rochester, PO Box 270082, Rochester NY USA<span> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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