New position at Cornell in premodern/early modern Japan

[Andrew Campana]

Dear all,

Hope the beginning of fall (or spring, for those in the southern hemisphere) is treating you well. I'm writing to draw your attention to a brand new tenure track/early tenure position in premodern and/or early modern Japanese humanities at Cornell—please consider applying if you're on the market, or send the posting along to any you think might be interested. The deadline is October 14th. 

https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22550 

"Japan in Transregional and Transtemporal Perspective

The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track/early tenure position based on research related to pre-modern/early-modern Japanese humanities. Preference will be given to applicants engaged in developing innovative conceptual frameworks for the humanities and able to nurture students to think cross-temporally and transregionally in contexts prior to the modern. Areas of potential interest include: textuality capaciously understood, trans-cultural intellectual histories, religiosities and the ability to support curricula related to the academic study of religion, environmental studies, migration/migratory humanities, displacement and intermediality. We encourage applications from candidates who complement existing departmental strengths in religious studies, classical and contemporary literatures of Asia, and media studies. Candidates will be expected to offer both undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in Japanese humanities generally and in their specific area of expertise, as well as to read primary-language texts with graduate and advanced undergraduate students as needed."

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly.

Best,

Andrew

Andrew Campana
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian Studies
Cornell University

[Ross Bender]

I would very much like to apply for this job, but I'm having difficulty with some of the terminology in the brief job description.

For example, what is the meaning of "textuality capaciously understood."?

Also the terms "religiosities" and "intermediality" are new to me.

Any clarifications would be appreciated.

Ross Bender, PhD

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[Andrew Campana]

Dear Ross,

Thanks very much for your questions, and apologies for the lack of clarity in the ad—the language of these things often has to go through an enormous number of committees and subcommittees which can result in this. 

The main thing we're trying to get across by terms like "textuality," "religiosities," and "intermediality" is that we're casting a wide net here, and welcome applicants even if their work does not neatly fit into established categories. In the cases of "textuality," that certainly might mean scholars of literature, and also book history, history of writing/language, mokkan, etc.; for "religiosities," that might mean scholars of Buddhism or Shinto, and also any religious or spiritual practices beyond those; for "intermediality," that might be historians of art, and also scholars whose work might move across visual art, literature, theater, architecture, music, material culture, and so on.

Best,

Andrew

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