2 Phd Positions in Literary and Cultural Studies:
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**Your job**:
**Position 1: Poetics of Eco-violence**:
This subproject will contribute to recent scholarship on eco-poetics by exploring the aesthetic, political, and affective affordances of literature, specifically poetry, for representing eco-violence, past and ongoing. Special attention will be paid to how contemporary poets are reimagining genres and poetic conventions to represent the multidirectional links between eco-violence, genocide, and colonialism. The subproject will explore the interaction between poetry and activism, social and environmental justice, focusing particularly on how contemporary eco-poetry frames questions of guilt, responsibility, and implication. The approach will be transnational/transcultural and multilingual, and the methodology will be comparative analysis and close reading, coupled with discourse analysis. The PhD will draw on recent scholarship in cultural memory studies, ecocriticism - specifically eco-poetics, and affective formalism to analyse the literary and poetic techniques, as well as the formal affordances of these texts. The subproject will also consider how poetry reflects on the role of language in perpetuating as well as resisting eco-violence.
**Position 2: Images of Eco-violence**:
This subproject will focus on the aesthetic, political, and affective dimensions of contemporary documentary film. It will contribute to current debates on the role of visual culture in representing eco-violence and its links to other histories and structures of violence. As an investigative genre par excellence, based on a discourse of evidence, truth, and social representation, documentaries are a particularly fruitful site for the representation of large-scale violence and a critical engagement with questions of guilt, responsibility, and implication. The corpus will consist of a range of different types of documentaries: from mainstream productions to more experimental, independent films. The approach will be transnational/transcultural and multilingual, and the methodology will be comparative, visual, and media analysis as well as discourse analysis. The PhD will draw on recent scholarship in cultural memory studies, ecocriticism - specifically eco-cinema, and affect theory to analyse the cinematic and rhetorical techniques, as well as the use of mediation, remediation, testimony, data, and evidence in these films. The PhD will furthermore explore the place of these films within a larger media ecology, focusing especially on the growing number of environmental film festivals.
- conducting research for and completing a PhD thesis within the period of appointment;
- publishing one peer-reviewed journal article or book chapter within the period of appointment;
- co-editing one special journal issue with the PI;
- helping with the organization of workshops and an international conference;
- participating in project meetings, and closely collaborating with the other members of the research team;
- helping with setting up and managing project data;
- assisting with knowledge dissemination and other activities of the project;
- presenting research results at national and international workshops and conferences;
- participating in the ICON and Faculty of Humanities PhD training programmes.
The PhD researchers will be embedded within the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) and affiliated with the Utrecht Forum for Memory Studies and the Network for Environmental Humanities.
**Your qualities**:
General qualifications:
- You hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g. comparative literature, film and media studies, cultural analysis) at the time of appointment.
- You have excellent command of spoken and written English.
- You have very good reading and speaking ability of at least one of the following languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch. Knowledge of other world languages is desirable but not required.
- You have outstanding research skills as evidenced in strong BA and MA transcripts.
- You have demonstrable knowledge of and experience with relevant research methods such as literary and visual analysis, cultural analysis, historical research, etc.
- You have a demonstrable grounding in one or more of the research fields central to the project: cultural memory studies, ecocriticism, postcolonial or decolonial theory, affect theory, posthumanism.
- You have team spirit and experience working in an interdisciplinary, international setting.
- You are willing to travel abroad for research stays, conferences and workshops.
- You have strong interpersonal, analytical and organisational skills.
**Our offer**:
We offer:
- a position for 18 months - after positive evaluation the position will_ _be extended for the remaining period of 30 months (four years in total);
- a working week of 38 hours and a gross monthly salary between €2,770 and €3,539 in the case of full-time employment (salary scale P under the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Uni
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