Visiting Lecturer in Japanese

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

Candidates must have completed a Master’s Degree in Japanese Studies, Language Teaching, or a related field by the time of appointment.  Candidates must have experience teaching Japanese language courses at all levels.  Superior proficiency in Japanese and English is required.

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit the following items:

A cover letter (no more than two pages) A teaching statement that provides evidence of a commitment to inclusive and evidence-based pedagogy and experience with teaching language courses. Please address your interest in working as teachers and scholars with undergraduates in a liberal arts environment that emphasizes close student-faculty interaction and how your culture, experiential, and/or academic background contributes to the Bates mission. A curriculum vitae, including the names of two recommenders (one or more of whom should be able to speak to your expertise in Japanese language teaching) Transcripts from your graduate institution(s) Applicants invited for a first-round interview (to be conducted via Zoom) will be asked to submit two confidential letters of recommendation and sample course syllabi.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and verification of degree.

For questions about the position, please contact the search committee chair at kkonoeda@bates.edu.