| Location: | Leeds |
| Salary: | £31,656 to £37,768 per annum |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Contract / Temporary |
| Placed on: | 30th November 2015 |
| Closes: | 3rd January 2016 |
| Job Ref: | ARTLC1032 |
Location: Leeds - Main Campus
Faculty/Service: Faculty of Arts
School/Institute: School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Grade: Grade 7
Contract Type: Fixed Term (24 months)
Fixed term from 1 September 2016 to 31 August 2018
Faculty/Service: Faculty of Arts
School/Institute: School of Languages, Cultures and Societies
Grade: Grade 7
Contract Type: Fixed Term (24 months)
Fixed term from 1 September 2016 to 31 August 2018
The postdoctoral fellowship advertised here is attached to ‘Traumatic Pasts, Cosmopolitanism, and Nation-Building in Contemporary German and South African Literature’, a three-year research project led by Professor Stuart Taberner (German) and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. You will be joining a team consisting of Stuart Taberner, Rebecca Macklin (PhD student: South African and Native American literature), Ian Ellison (German and Spanish), Jade Douglas (German minority authors), and Dominic O’Key (American and South African), with a number of associate members from the School of English, the School of Languages, and the Centre for World Literatures.
You will design and undertake a two-year postdoctoral study within the framework of the Leverhulme project. In essence, the postdoctoral fellow will design a study that can contribute to the project’s ambition to compare and contrast literary texts from Germany (or another German-speaking country) with literature emanating from other countries confronting traumatic pasts (e.g. post-dictatorship Central and South America, post-independence North Africa, the Middle East, Japan, post-communist Eastern Europe, post-WWII western Europe, South Africa, post-imperial Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, etc.). Key concepts for the project team are: trauma, nation, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan memory, circulation and transmission, and world literature.
Exceptionally, it may be possible to focus on literature from one country only.
You will have a PhD in a relevant area of literary studies, or a submitted doctoral thesis awaiting examination. You will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the concepts mentioned above and be able to articulate how your proposed study contributes to the overall aims for the project. You will also be able and willing to contribute to the administration and academic delivery of the project, by organising seminars and workshops, and to the project’s impact and outreach with external (non-academic) partners. You will be based in the German department, but will be associated with the Centre for World Literatures. There will be opportunities to collaborate with our partners in South Africa, Sweden, and the United States.
Further information about the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, German Studies, and World Literatures at Leeds can be found at: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20043/school_of_languages_cultures_and_societies
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Stuart Taberner, tel +44 (0)113 343 3504, email S.J.Taberner@leeds.ac.uk
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