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Report on the MLA Job Information List, 2010–11

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IN 2010–11 the number of jobs advertised in the MLA Job Information List ( JIL) stabilized. Compared with 2009–10, the number of jobs announced in 2010–11 rose by 90 (8.2%) in the English edition and by 73 (7.1%) in the foreign language edition, although the number of jobs advertised in 2010–11 remains at a level a third below the 2007–08 peak. In 2010–11 the JIL’s En glish edition announced 1,190 positions, compared with 1,100 in 2009–10; the foreign language edition announced 1,095 positions, compared with 1,022 in 2009–10. After trending upward between 2003–04 and 2007–08 (by 285 positions, or 18.5%, in En glish and 395 positions, or 30.7%, in foreign languages), the number of jobs advertised in the JIL declined by 726 (39.8%) in En glish and by 658 (39.2%) in foreign languages over the succeeding two years, 2008–09 and 2009–10. Figure 1 shows the trend lines in the number of jobs advertised across the thirty- six years from 1975–76 to 2010–11. The 1,190 positions advertised in this past year’s En glish edition remain 636 (34.8%) below the 2007–08 peak of 1,826; the 1,022 jobs advertised in the foreign language edition remain 585 (also 34.8%) below the 2007–08 peak of 1,680.

The number of ads in the 2010–11 JIL increased modestly, as did the number of departments and institutions placing them. As shown in figure 2, the 2010–11 En glish edition contained 1,042 ads from 668 departments in 577 institutions. Figure 3 shows the equivalent information for the foreign language edition, which contained 985 ads from 652 departments in 477 institutions. Despite the slight improvement, the number of ads and the number of departments and institutions placing them remain substantially below their 2007–08 levels—down by 604 ads (36.7%), 279 departments (29.5%), and 214 institutions (27.1%) in the En glish edi-tion and down by 536 ads (35.2%), 290 departments (30.8%), and 177 institutions (27.1%) in the foreign language edition.1

Both the number and proportion of ads for tenure- track positions were higher in 2010–11, after dropping more than ten percentage points, to 65% of the En glish edition and to 49% of the foreign language edition, between 2008–09 and 2009–10. In the 2010–11 En glish edition, the number of ads indexed as tenure- track grew by 101 (16.1%) since 2009–10 and made up 70.0% of the year’s total. In the foreign language edition, the number of ads indexed as tenure- track grew by 87 (19.5%) since 2009–10 and made up 54.2% of the 2010–11 total. Until last year, between 75% and 80% of ads in En glish and between 60% and 65% of ads in foreign lan-guages were consistently identified as tenure- track. At 70.0% in En glish and 54.2% in foreign languages this year, the percentage of ads for tenture- track positions falls midway between the established norm and last year’s low (fig. 4 and fig. 5).

Once again this year, departments announced more positions later in the year. For the second year in a row—and only the second time in the thirty- six- year history of the JIL counts—more ads appeared in the February, April, and Summer issues


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than in the October and December issues—52.6% of ads in the En glish edition and 60.0% of ads in the foreign language edition (fig. 6 and fig. 7). The number of jobs in the 2010 October En glish list—308—was the lowest October number on record; the 250 jobs in the 2010 October foreign language list exceeded by 50 last October’s rec-ord low of 200 jobs. In part, the shift, especially the notable decline in ads appearing in the October issues, reflects changes connected with the JIL’s becoming an online searchable database that is updated weekly. The October issues match the database as initially released for searching in mid- September. That is, as a searchable database, the JIL makes the same set of ads available for searching online in mid- September that appear in the print issues published in mid- October. When the JIL was avail-able only in print form, an ad that missed the deadline for October had to wait for the December print issue, which is not mailed until late November. Now an ad that misses the print deadline for October may become available to job seekers online in the third week of September. The economic recession, however, has clearly amplified the emergent trend toward a greater portion of the year’s total appearing in December and later issues.

Almost all the positions announced in the JIL are full- time, and thus the JIL af-fords no insight into the scale of departments’ hiring of part- time faculty members. The number of ads tagged as openings for full- time tenure- track assistant professors and for full- time non- tenure- track instructors does serve as a valuable barometer of trends in opportunities for full- time, entry- level academic employment in four- year institutions available to new and recent graduates of PhD programs. (Few two- year colleges elect to use the JIL to advertise openings on their faculties.) This year, in En-glish, 541 (51.9%) of all 1,042 ads were indexed for both tenure- track and assistant professor; an additional 92 (8.8%) were tagged as tenure- track, assistant professor, and some other rank. In foreign languages, 384 (39.0%) of all 985 ads were indexed for both tenure- track and assistant professor; an additional 70 (7.1%) were tagged as tenure- track, assistant professor, and some other rank. Figure 8 and figure 9 show the modestly higher number and percentage share of ads for tenure- track assistant professors this year as compared with last—as well as the dramatic numerical de-cline that occurred after 2007–08.

Table 1 and table 2 show in more detail how departments have tagged their ads using the four index terms for rank—instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, and professor—across the eleven years from 2000–01 to 2010–11.

Table 3 and table 4 show detail for how departments have used the search terms for field specialization to tag ads across the eleven years 2000–01 to 2010–11. The percentage values represent the percentage of ads tagged using any given search term. Because departments use multiple search terms for each ad, the percentage values sum to a total far greater than 100% of each year’s total number of ads. The percent-age values for field specializations in the En glish edition show considerable stabil-ity across the eleven- year period, compared with the fluctuation in the number of ads. Across the eleven years, roughly 30% of ads have consistently been tagged as composition and rhetoric, another 30% as British literature, and roughly a third as American literature (including African American literature). In the foreign language edition, however, change is evident in the tagging of ads. Over the eleven- year period,




the percentage of ads for Spanish has dropped from close to 50.0% to 42.3%, while the percentage tagged for Chinese has grown from 2.9% to 8.2%.

Note

1. The number of jobs is always somewhat greater than the number of ads, since some ads announce more than one job.




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1,3

25

1,3

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1,8

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1,2

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1,6

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1,8

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1,7

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1,7

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1,8

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1,5

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1,3

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1,3

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1,2

97

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37

1,2

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1,4

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1,6

22

1,7

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57 1,8

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371,4

88

1,2

38

1,1

091

,047

1,1

88

1,1

34

1,1

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1,0

88

1,1

92

1,3

65

1,4

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1,3

671

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1,3

69

1,3

61

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1,2

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500

1,0

00

1,5

00

2,0

00

2,5

00

1975–76

1976–77

1977–78

1978–79

1979–80

1980–81

1981–82

1982–83

1983–84

1984–85

1985–86

1986–87

1987–88

1988–89

1989–90

1990–91

1991–92

1992–93

1993–94

1994–95

1995–96

1996–97

1997–98

1998–99

1999–2000

2000–01

2001–02

2002–03

2003–04

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 1. Total N

umber of Jobs A

dvertised in the ML

A JIL, 1975–76 to 2010–11

English

edition

Foreign lan

guag

e edition




1,6

21

1,5

37

1,4

36

1,3

62

1,4

97

1,4

82

1,5

73

1,6

46

1,2

28

964

1,0

42

892

844

814

788

854

846

887

947

739

639

668

756

705

685

660

728

709

743

791

630

558

577

0 200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

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1,4

00

1,6

00

1,8

00

2000–01

2001–02

2002–03

2003–04

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Number of Departments and Institutions

Number of Ads

Fig. 2. Num

ber of Ads Placed in the English JIL and the

Num

ber of Departm

ents and Institutions Placing Ads, 2000–01 to 2010–11

Ads

Dep

artmen

tsIn

stitutio

ns




1,3

79

1,2

53

1,2

56

1,1

76

1,2

48

1,2

37

1,4

36

1,5

21

1,1

34

913

985

873

809

831

763

813

799

860

942

736

597

652

617

546

551

528

558

565

604

654

518

446

477

0 200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

1,6

00

2000–01

2001–02

2002–03

2003–04

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Number of Departments and Institutions

Number of Ads

Fig. 3. Num

ber of Ads Placed in the Foreign L

anguage JIL and the N

umber of D

epartments and Institutions Placing A

ds, 2000–01 to 2010–11

Ads

Dep

artments

Institu

tions




1,1

93

(79.7

%)

1,1

65

(78.6

%)

1,2

21

(77.6

%)

1,2

44

(75.6

%)

925

(75.3

%)

628

(65.1

%)

729

(70.0

%)

270

(18.0

%)

281

(19.0

%)

315

(20.0

%)

353

(21.4

%)

255

(20.8

%)

304

(31.5

%)

278

(26.7

%)

34 (2

.3%

)36 (2

.4%

)

37 (2

.4%

)49 (3

.0%

)

48 (3

.9%

)

32 (3

.3%

)35 (3

.4%

)

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

1,6

00

1,8

00

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 4. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads Indexed for Tenure Status

in the English JIL, 2004–05 to 2010–11

Tenure statu

s not

specified

Non-ten

ure-track

Tenure-track




796

(63.8

%)

800

(64.7

%)

860

(59.9

%)

905

(59.5

%)

695

(61.3

%)

447

(49.0

%)

534

(54.2

%)

417

(33.4

%)

411

(33.2

%)

550

(38.3

%)

576

(37.9

%)

394

(34.7

%)

437

(47.9

%)

420

(42.6

%)

35 (2

.8%

)26 (2

.1%

)

26 (1

.8%

)40 (2

.6%

)

45

(4.0

%)

29 (3

.2%

)31 (3

.1%

)

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

1,6

00

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 5. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads Indexed for Tenure Status

in the Foreign Language JIL, 2004–05 to 2010–11

Ten

ure statu

s not

specified

Non-ten

ure-track

Ten

ure-track




434

440

375

438

512

523

551

544

523

567

784

892

937

1053

976

926

735

620

624

679

605

700

698

885

899

959

983

792

649

686

682

723

604

534

313

308

421

405

410

327

385

388

300

338

320

374

326

276

404

354

501

284

275

247

221

249

261

276

205

230

220

335

212

338

303

378

390

375

453

340

189

256

316

319

302

289

339

355

336

261

296

320

373

325

369

382

280

192

190

192

161

153

151

135

139

265

295

312

330

324

306

368

372

371

399

300

302

392

233

223

201

228

185

258

218

153

186

196

180

209

239

236

110

78

71

74

50

61

61

75

55

112

163

126

117

114

123

149

100

147

165

87

126

92

46

54

37

45

35

51

56

42

43

35

37

39

29

50

28

27

17

19

19

17

20

724

25

93

96

90

112

160

175

143

177

205

119

170

142

0

500

1,0

00

1,5

00

2,0

00

2,5

00

1975–76

1976–77

1977–78

1978–79

1979–80

1980–81

1981–82

1982–83

1983–84

1984–85

1985–86

1986–87

1987–88

1988–89

1989–90

1990–91

1991–92

1992–93

1993–94

1994–95

1995–96

1996–97

1997–98

1998–99

1999–2000

2000–01

2001–02

2002–03

2003–04

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 6. Num

ber of Positions Advertised in the Five Issues of the E

nglish JIL,1975–76 to 2010–11

Sum

mer

April

Febru

ary

Dece

mber

Octo

ber




373

323

381

385

412

420

377

463

444

499

695

723

800

863

782

756

606

510

508

638

538

593

606

590

672

666

675

535

447

393

429

452

451

425

200

250

484

425

379

390

380

319

306

299

314

313

328

313

387

375

429

384

344

305

298

286

319

275

204

207

199

274

186

305

240

332

309

363

428

306

193

188

362

293

311

327

299

281

284

263

261

358

331

355

388

372

259

208

186

173

140

182

175

160

165

263

256

279

268

291

292

338

311

358

364

264

301

348

256

221

265

188

203

244

171

163

172

235

223

273

233

214

139

105

78

102

93

68

90

90

73

92

134

151

116

98

165

121

140

172

207

99

124

121

40

48

51

64

58

33

28

49

47

37

45

39

49

49

28

35

24

19

8

14

12

11

40

40

104

112

124

138

141

140

172

246

230

133

204

188

0

500

1,0

00

1,5

00

2,0

00

2,5

00

1975–76

1976–77

1977–78

1978–79

1979–80

1980–81

1981–82

1982–83

1983–84

1984–85

1985–86

1986–87

1987–88

1988–89

1989–90

1990–91

1991–92

1992–93

1993–94

1994–95

1995–96

1996–97

1997–98

1998–99

1999–2000

2000–01

2001–02

2002–03

2003–04

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 7. Num

ber of Positions Advertised in the Five Issues of the Foreign L

anguage JIL,1975–76 to 2010–11

Sum

mer

April

Febru

ary

Decem

ber

Octob

er




850

(56.8

%)

806

(54.4

%)

884

(56.2

%)

877

(53.3

%)

645

(52.5

%)

469

(48.7

%)

541

(51.9

%)

176

(11.8

%)

190

(12.8

%)

181

(11.5

%)

192

(11.7

%)

151

(12.3

%)

78 (8

.1%

)

92 (8

.8%

)

167

(11.2

%)

169

(11.4

%)

156

(9.9

%)

175

(10.6

%)

129 (1

0.5

%)

81 (8

.4%

)

96 (9

.2%

)

270

(18.0

%)

281

(19.0

%)

315

(20.0

%)

353

(21.4

%)

255

(20.8

%)

304

(31.5

%)

278

(26.7

%)

34 (2

.3%

)36 (2

.4%

)

37 (2

.4%

)49 (3

.0%

)

48 (3

.9%

)

32 (3

.3%

)

35 (3

.4%

)

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

1,6

00

1,8

00

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 8. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads Indexed for Tenure Status and R

ankin the E

nglish JIL, 2004–05 to 2010–11

Ten

ure sta

tus n

ot specified

Non

-tenure-track p

ositions

Oth

er tenure-track p

ositions

Ten

ure-track assistan

t pro

fessor

and so

me oth

er rank (m

ore th

anon

e index term

for rank ch

osen)

Ten

ure-track assistan

t pro

fessor




556

(44.6

%)

569

(46.0

%)

642

(44.7

%)

634

(41.7

%)

518

(45.7

%)

322

(35.3

%)

384

(39.0

%)

123 (9

.9%

)121 (9

.8%

)

114 (7

.9%

)140 (9

.2%

)

97 (8

.6%

)

56 (6

.1%

)

70 (7

.1%

)

117 (9

.4%

)110 (8

.9%

)

104 (7

.2%

)131 (8

.6%

)

80 (7

.1%

)

69 (7

.6%

)

80 (8

.1%

)

417

(33.4

%)

411

(33.2

%)

550

(38.3

%)

576

(37.9

%)

394

(34.7

%)

437

(47.9

%)

420

(42.6

%)

35 (2

.8%

)26 (2

.1%

)

26 (1

.8%

)

40 (2

.6%

)

45 (4

.0%

)

29 (3

.2%

)

31 (3

.1%

)

0

200

400

600

800

1,0

00

1,2

00

1,4

00

1,6

00

2004–05

2005–06

2006–07

2007–08

2008–09

2009–10

2010–11

Fig. 9. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads Indexed for Tenure Status and R

ankin the Foreign L

anguage JIL, 2004–05 to 2010–11

Tenure statu

s not sp

ecified

Non-ten

ure-tra

ck positio

ns

Oth

er tenure-track p

ositio

ns

Tenure-tra

ck assistan

t pro

fessor

and som

e oth

er ra

nk (m

ore

than

one in

dex term

for ra

nk ch

osen

)

Tenure-tra

ck assistan

t pro

fessor




Table 1. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the English JIL

Indexed for Various Ranks, 2000–01 to 2010–11

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–11A

ssistant professor1,025

1,006963

865956

9141,005

990714

562643

63.2%65.5%

67.1%63.5%

63.9%61.7%

63.9%60.1%

58.1%58.3%

61.7%Instructor or assistant professor

4430

3640

3546

3734

1825

272.7%

2.0%2.5%

2.9%2.3%

3.1%2.4%

2.1%1.5%

2.6%2.6%

Assistant professor or associate professor

123105

96122

122121

121125

10549

637.6%

6.8%6.7%

9.0%8.1%

8.2%7.7%

7.6%8.6%

5.1%6.0%

Assistant professor, associate professor, or professor

6479

5244

5360

5370

5541

243.9%

5.1%3.6%

3.2%3.5%

4.0%3.4%

4.3%4.5%

4.3%2.3%

Other com

binations including assistant professor17

107

813

139

128

99

1.0%0.7%

0.5%0.6%

0.9%0.9%

0.6%0.7%

0.7%0.9%

0.9%Instructor

148123

113103

136125

130178

158157

1209.1%

8.0%7.9%

7.6%9.1%

8.4%8.3%

10.8%12.9%

16.3%11.5%

Associate professor

1722

1730

2124

2728

1710

191.0%

1.4%1.2%

2.2%1.4%

1.6%1.7%

1.7%1.4%

1.0%1.8%

Associate professor or professor

6265

5040

6251

7771

4528

283.8%

4.2%3.5%

2.9%4.1%

3.4%4.9%

4.3%3.7%

2.9%2.7%

Professor

4639

4255

4261

4054

3823

312.8%

2.5%2.9%

4.0%2.8%

4.1%2.5%

3.3%3.1%

2.4%3.0%

Other com

binations not including assistant professor1

10

12

30

00

30

0.1%0.1%

0.0%0.1%

0.1%0.2%

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.3%

0.0%R

ank not specified or not relevant74

5760

5455

6474

8470

5778

4.6%3.7%

4.2%4.0%

3.7%4.3%

4.7%5.1%

5.7%5.9%

7.5%Total

1,6211,537

1,4361,362

1,4971,482

1,5731,646

1,228964

1,042100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%




Table 2. Num

ber and Percentage of Ads in the Foreign Language JIL

Indexed for Various Ranks, 2000–01 to 2010–11

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–11A

ssistant professor791

739765

667689

686791

779635

452503

57.4%59.0%

60.9%56.7%

55.2%55.5%

55.1%51.2%

56.0%49.5%

51.1%Instructor or assistant professor

9371

5475

7269

6569

5246

536.7%

5.7%4.3%

6.4%5.8%

5.6%4.5%

4.5%4.6%

5.0%5.4%

Assistant professsor or associate professor

6562

7665

7661

7386

6436

534.7%

4.9%6.1%

5.5%6.1%

4.9%5.1%

5.7%5.6%

3.9%5.4%

Assistant professor, associate professor, or professor

4247

3430

4249

4258

3626

113.0%

3.8%2.7%

2.6%3.4%

4.0%2.9%

3.8%3.2%

2.8%1.1%

Other com

binations including assistant professor17

810

78

912

178

88

1.2%0.6%

0.8%0.6%

0.6%0.7%

0.8%1.1%

0.7%0.9%

0.8%Instructor

201183

171192

210219

301320

194220

21814.6%

14.6%13.6%

16.3%16.8%

17.7%21.0%

21.0%17.1%

24.1%22.1%

Associate professor

2011

811

1517

1424

1613

71.5%

0.9%0.6%

0.9%1.2%

1.4%1.0%

1.6%1.4%

1.4%0.7%

Associate professor or professor

4945

5048

5650

4943

3426

323.6%

3.6%4.0%

4.1%4.5%

4.0%3.4%

2.8%3.0%

2.8%3.2%

Professor

3331

2726

2934

2943

2626

282.4%

2.5%2.1%

2.2%2.3%

2.7%2.0%

2.8%2.3%

2.8%2.8%

Other com

binations not including assistant professor0

00

10

01

22

30

0.0%0.0%

0.0%0.1%

0.0%0.0%

0.1%0.1%

0.2%0.3%

0.0%R

ank not specified or not relevant68

5661

5451

4359

8067

5772

4.9%4.5%

4.9%4.6%

4.1%3.5%

4.1%5.3%

5.9%6.2%

7.3%Total

1,3791,253

1,2561,176

1,2481,237

1,4361,521

1,134913

985100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%

100.0%100.0%




Table 3. Percentage of Ads Published in the English JIL

, 2000–01 to 2010–11, by Field-Specialization Index TermIndex term

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–11C

omposition and rhetoric

30.832.0

29.029.4

32.329.6

29.132.1

30.733.0

31.4Technical and business w

riting11.5

10.09.9

8.510.4

9.98.2

8.27.6

10.39.4

Creative w

riting14.2

15.412.6

12.712.7

13.614.6

14.912.0

10.19.9

British literature

30.829.5

28.628.0

24.224.6

28.228.7

30.230.3

30.1A

merican literature

27.023.7

24.024.4

20.821.0

24.022.1

23.024.9

24.7Literature in E

nglish other than British or A

merican

13.612.9

12.612.8

0.00.0

11.87.4

9.710.0

8.6A

frican Am

erican literature12.6

10.410.9

10.98.8

9.410.3

8.08.6

7.48.9

Other m

inority literatures14.2

11.812.3

11.78.2

9.911.2

7.79.0

7.19.2

Postcolonial literature

0.00.0

0.00.0

7.88.2

8.86.6

9.48.0

7.6W

orld literature0.0

0.00.0

0.08.4

8.89.9

7.49.3

9.410.0

Com

parative literature13.8

14.918.0

17.211.6

12.814.1

15.616.4

19.024.5

Generalist

15.413.7

11.412.5

12.211.8

10.914.1

9.913.2

13.4C

riticism, theory

6.35.7

6.76.9

7.37.6

9.1C

ultural studies9.9

12.011.1

11.812.1

10.614.0

Film4.9

6.46.7

6.56.8

7.88.3

Technology and digital media

7.76.5

8.59.8

10.69.0

11.114.1

Interdisciplinary10.4

11.010.5

10.910.4

10.813.1

English education

7.98.7

7.67.4

6.76.3

7.47.8

9.29.3

8.4Linguistics and E

SL

11.011.5

10.89.8

12.311.1

9.113.4

12.312.6

15.0O

ther fields of specialization16.6

20.023.7

24.26.0

14.719.8

21.422.2

25.327.4

Departm

ent chair and other administrative

9.09.5

7.29.9

13.114.0

8.38.9

8.97.6

7.4N

onacademic

1.81.6

1.21.0

1.30.6

1.41.4

0.21.6

0.8S

panish1.8

2.32.0

1.31.8

1.11.4

2.12.5

3.63.5

Latin Am

erica1.0

1.41.7

1.30.9

0.71.0

0.91.0

1.61.2

Portuguese

0.40.5

0.30.4

0.40.1

0.40.4

0.20.2

0.5French

1.01.2

1.21.0

1.10.7

0.71.8

2.43.3

3.1Francophone studies

0.30.4

0.70.7

0.20.3

0.50.4

0.50.7

0.3Italian

0.40.1

0.40.4

0.40.1

0.40.4

0.51.0

1.1G

erman and S

candinavian0.7

1.20.8

0.70.8

0.71.0

1.62.0

3.02.4

Russian and S

lavic0.1

1.20.3

0.30.4

0.10.2

0.40.7

1.71.2

Arabic

0.10.7

0.30.2

0.40.6

1.00.8

0.81.1

1.3H

ebrew0.2

0.60.3

0.10.3

0.50.6

0.70.5

0.70.6

Classical

0.30.8

0.60.4

0.30.5

0.40.5

0.51.0

0.7C

hinese0.3

0.90.9

0.50.3

0.71.0

0.40.7

1.51.6

Japanese0.4

0.40.6

0.50.5

0.70.8

0.20.2

0.61.0

Other languages

1.21.2

0.92.0

1.71.8

1.71.2

1.62.6

3.0N

umber of ads (basis for percentages)

1,6211,537

1,4361,362

1,4971,482

1,5731,646

1,228964

1,042N

otesD

epartments m

ay use multiple index term

s to classify their ads, therefore the percentage of ads indexed for various field specialties adds up to a total greater than 100%.

The list of terms available for departm

ents to index their ads has varied from year to year; blank cells indicate years w

hen a given term w

as not available.In any given year som

e 150 to 300 ads call for specializations in both English and foreign languages and appear in both the E

nglish and foreign language editions; both English and

foreign language index terms are available to classify these ads.




Table 4. Percentage of Ads Published in the Foreign Language JIL

, 2000–01 to 2010–11, by Field-Specialization Index TermIndex term

2000–012001–02

2002–032003–04

2004–052005–06

2006–072007–08

2008–092009–10

2010–11S

panish48.4

49.745.8

45.746.6

45.442.8

43.742.9

43.042.3

Latin Am

erica13.4

13.213.5

12.513.9

12.911.6

11.812.2

13.39.8

Portuguese

2.03.2

2.53.1

2.92.7

3.33.2

3.02.2

3.9French

18.817.7

17.816.3

19.616.8

17.816.5

16.818.6

19.0Francophone studies

3.83.9

4.54.0

5.04.0

5.24.8

5.75.5

4.6Italian

7.35.8

6.76.5

7.15.8

7.46.6

7.05.9

6.4G

erman and S

candinavian11.4

12.79.6

11.711.0

11.010.9

11.811.6

11.611.3

Russian and S

lavic3.3

4.74.1

3.73.0

3.82.1

2.44.4

4.64.8

Arabic

1.21.7

1.92.6

3.34.6

5.03.9

5.35.5

7.3C

hinese2.9

4.34.7

2.62.6

4.37.5

6.07.1

8.38.2

Japanese3.0

3.93.0

2.63.2

4.03.8

2.63.1

4.14.0

Hebrew

1.01.4

1.11.0

1.01.2

1.11.2

1.31.6

1.2C

lassical1.3

1.52.0

0.90.8

0.90.6

1.11.1

1.80.9

Other languages

3.34.4

3.64.7

4.25.7

4.84.9

5.87.0

6.6Linguistics and E

SL

16.516.4

16.013.4

17.415.8

12.315.4

14.013.9

16.5C

omparative literature

13.715.2

19.718.4

12.415.8

13.416.5

16.917.1

22.2W

orld literature2.6

3.23.3

2.93.5

3.24.1

Cultural studies

6.05.5

4.45.9

5.65.9

7.8P

ostcolonial literature1.2

1.51.5

1.62.2

2.52.0

Criticism

, theory2.8

1.81.8

2.73.5

3.64.8

Film1.7

1.61.5

3.22.8

3.14.2

Technology and digital media

5.94.6

4.44.9

5.74.1

4.47.8

Interdisciplinary5.4

4.95.6

6.35.8

6.47.9

Generalist

19.920.6

18.213.1

11.110.9

7.16.0

6.56.0

5.9D

epartment chair and other adm

inistrative5.5

5.75.1

7.710.4

9.17.5

7.67.0

6.27.0

Am

erican literature2.6

3.53.1

2.62.6

1.92.0

2.54.1

4.84.1

African A

merican literature

2.41.1

2.41.8

1.41.0

0.81.0

1.61.8

1.8O

ther minority literatures

2.93.4

4.63.7

3.12.7

2.92.2

2.32.1

3.6B

ritish literature2.0

2.82.0

1.82.2

1.51.3

2.63.9

4.84.1

Literature in English other than B

ritish or Am

erican2.0

3.33.6

3.30.0

0.01.3

1.62.0

2.42.0

Com

position and rhetoric1.3

1.00.8

1.01.0

1.10.7

1.10.6

1.11.3

Technical and business writing

0.30.1

0.20.1

0.20.1

0.10.1

0.10.2

0.2C

reative writing

0.61.3

0.81.0

0.30.3

0.70.4

0.41.0

0.5E

nglish education1.0

1.00.3

0.60.2

0.50.8

0.91.0

0.80.5

Other fields of specialization

11.416.2

18.820.6

8.614.9

17.918.9

19.021.6

25.9N

onacademic

2.22.1

1.51.3

1.10.8

1.21.1

0.31.3

1.2N

umber of ads (basis for percentages)

1,3791,253

1,2561,176

1,2481,237

1,4361,521

1,134913

985N

otesD

epartments m

ay use multiple index term

s to classify their ads, therefore the percentage of ads indexed for various field specialties adds up to a total greater than 100%.

The list of terms available for departm

ents to index their ads has varied from year to year; blank cells indicate years w

hen a given term w

as not available.In any given year som

e 150 to 300 ads call for specializations in both English and foreign languages and appear in both the E

nglish and foreign language editions; both English and

foreign language index terms are available to classify these ads.

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