Job type

• Professor level
• Associate Professor
• Lecturer level
• Others

  Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)

Research field

• Humanities & Social Sciences - English literature and literature in the English language

Wages

• Professor level

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~

• Associate Professor

  Annual Salary : 6 million yen ~

• Lecturer level

  Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~

• Others - Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)

  Annual Salary : 4 million yen ~

Qualifications

• Education and Degree Requirements

  Ph.D. / Doctor / Master

• Description

  Applicants must meet all of the following four conditions:
  (1) A doctoral degree by the time of appointment (April 2025) or equivalent academic expertise and achievements
  (2) Research achievements in 19th-century British literature (prose)
  (3) The ability to teach in English
  (4) Proficiency in Japanese sufficient for conducting university duties

Employment Type

• Professor level

  Regular employee

• Associate Professor

  Regular employee

• Lecturer level

  Regular employee

• Others - Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)

  Regular employee

Contract period

• Professor level

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period absent

• Associate Professor

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period absent

• Lecturer level

  Tenured - Non-tenure track

  Probationary period absent

• Others - Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)

  Nontenured - Tenure-track

  3 years

  Probationary period absent

Work location

• 169-8050 Tokyo Nishi-Waseda 1-6-1, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050

  Primarily Waseda Campus

Compensation

• Various systems

  Pay increase system : available

  Bonus : available

  Retirement allowances : available

  Transportation expenses : available

  Retirement age : available (regular retirement at age 70)

• Insurance

  Employees' Health Insurance : available

  Employees' Pension Insurance : available

  Worker's accident insurance : available

  Employment insurance : available

• Measures for preventing passive smoking at the workplace

  Smoking is not permitted on the Waseda University campus except in designated outdoor smoking areas.

• Supplementary explanation of compensation

  1. Working hours
  Regular working days and working hours (starting and ending times, rest periods) shall be in accordance with Waseda University regulations. The discretionary labor system for professional work (8 hours of deemed work per day) will apply, and decisions on the means of performing work duties and time allocation for research will, due to the nature of research work, be left to the discretion of the individual.
  2. Salary, allowances, and commuting expenses
  As prescribed in the Waseda University regulations.
  3. Holidays
  Saturdays, Sundays, year-end and New Year holidays, national holidays, compensatory holidays when classes are held on some national holidays, and the Anniversary of the University Founding. Excluded: days on which the university has determined in advance that classes will be held.
  4. Leave
  Leave as stipulated by the Labor Standards Act and other relevant laws and regulations, and days specifically designated by the university.
  5. Social insurance
  Workers’ Compensation Insurance, and Employment Insurance. If hired as full-time faculty: To be paid in accordance with the Waseda University regulations.
  6. Severance / retirement benefits
  If hired as tenure-track faculty: Not paid. However, if the individual concerned is subsequently hired as a tenured faculty member, the period of employment on which the basis of the retirement allowance for full-time faculty members is calculated shall be counted from their date of appointment as a tenure-track faculty member before the change of status.

Application Considerations

Number of hired

1 person(s)

Hiring date : 2025/04/01

Starting date : 2025/04/01

• Job content supplemental explanation

  Decision regarding full-time or tenure-track will be made after initial hiring decisions based on a comprehensive assessment of research and educational achievements.
  
  (1) Status if hired as a full-time faculty member: Professor, Associate Professor, or Assistant Professor (Lecturer, "Koshi")
  (2) Status if hired as a tenure-track faculty member: Assistant Professor (Lecturer, "Koshi" tenure-track)
  (3) When hired as a full-time faculty member: No fixed term *Retirement age: 70
  (4) When hired as a tenure-track faculty member: 3 years
  　4-1) After the expiration of the term, reappointment may be made up to two times for a period not exceeding two years each time. The total period of continuous employment as a tenure-track faculty member may not exceed seven years.
  4-2) The method for determining reappointment as a tenure-track faculty member or change of status to a full-time faculty member shall be in accordance with the regulations of the University and the internal rules of the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences. Details of the assessment summary will be provided after the decision to hire is made.
  4-3) The individual will be subject to an upper limit on their period of continuous employment if the following two conditions apply:
  1) regardless of employment status, the individual has had an employment contract with the university subsequent to April 2013 and
  2) has not ceased employment with the university for a period of six months or longer prior to the hiring date for this position. Therefore, in some cases, the statements above may not apply with regard to the contract period and the availability and duration of reappointment. In addition, depending on the continuous duration of an individual’s employment contract, there may be cases in which the individual will not be considered eligible for selection for the status in question (i.e., the tenure-track position).

Application period

• 2024/03/14~2024/05/07 Deadline for receipt

Application method

• Attached documents

  Application Form : Online Submission

  (1) Curriculum Vitae
  ＊Please download the Waseda University forms from the following URL: https://www.waseda.jp/fedu/edu/news/2016/12/07/6113/
  ＊Please download in Word and upload in PDF format to the submission form indicated below.
  Achievements and Activities : Online Submission

  (2) Education and Research Achievements
  ＊Please download the Waseda University forms from the following URL: https://www.waseda.jp/fedu/edu/news/2016/12/07/6113/
  ＊Please download in Word and upload in PDF format to the submission form indicated below.
  ＊Please indicate three major research achievements.

  Other online application forms
  (3) Major Research Achievements: Online Submission; only monographs may be sent via registered mail.
  ＊Please upload the three major research achievements in PDF format to the online submission form indicated below.
  ＊In the case of monographs (single author), please upload the following in PDF format: the cover, the colophon, the table of contents, the introduction, the final chapter, and a chapter or more of your choosing. If this is not possible, please submit via registered mail.
  
  (4) Proof of last degree received: Online Submission
  
  Please fill in the application form and upload the following in PDF format: (1) Curriculum Vitae, (2) Education and Research Achievements, (3) Major Research Achievements, and (4) Proof of Last Degree Received.
  
  * URL: https://wasedaunivcampus.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0Gsy6o4OYVZRVXw
  
  * Those who are selected for the final interview (to be announced later), will be required to submit letters of recommendation from two referees and the proof of their last degree (photocopy of diploma acceptable).
  
  * Please submit any major research achievements (i.e. monographs) that cannot be converted into PDF format to the following address:
  
  Professor Peter Backhaus
  Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Building 16
  Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8050
  
  * The documents should be sent by simplified registered mail, with "Application for full-time faculty member or tenure-track faculty member at Department of English Language and Literature enclosed” written in red on the envelope.
  
  * Application documents will not be returned. If you wish to have your publications returned, please indicate this clearly, then fill in and enclose a payment-on-delivery address label.
  

• Return of application documents

  We will dispose of all application documents responsibly.

• Application document submission method (physically mailed documents)

  169-8050 Tokyo Prof. Peter Backhaus Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, 1-6-1 Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-8050

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Selection / Notification of result

• Selection

  Applicants who pass the preliminary screening of the documents submitted will be notified by early June 2024. An interview is scheduled for 29 June at the Waseda Campus. Information about time and location will be provided by e-mail.
  
  * Applicants are responsible for their own transportation and accommodation expenses.
  *Please note that we are unable to respond to any inquiries regarding the selection results.

• Notification of result

  Notification will be sent by e-mail.

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