December 18, 2007

Foreign-Language Professors Are in Demand, English Professors Less So, Analysis Finds

By John Gravois

This academic year is shaping up as another good one for faculty-job seekers in the field of foreign languages, according to a new analysis of employment advertisements conducted by the Modern Language Association. But the news for out-of-work scholars of English is not so heartening: The number of faculty job openings for them has shrunk slightly since the 2006 academic year.

The MLA, which is the largest group of academics who study languages and literature, projects that the

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