The job market for language and literature scholars, already weak before the recession hit, is likely to leave job seekers chasing a rapidly shrinking pool of jobs for the next several years.
A new analysis of employment advertising conducted by the Modern Language Association, to be released on Thursday, projects a 37-percent drop in faculty positions advertised in the association’s electronic job list this academic year, compared with last year. The projection is based on a comparison between the number of jobs listed in October 2008 and October 2009.
The decline would top last year’s drop (26 percent), which, at the time, was the steepest in the list’s 35-year history.
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