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PhD Position in Speculative Fiction and Imaginaries of the Future
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Research Project Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our research project on speculative fiction and imaginations of the future. The project explores how speculative fiction contributes to conceptualizations of the future, with a focus on past and peripheral imaginations of the future that envision less 'futuristic' futures for both human animals and the planet.
Research Objectives
- Develop a PhD project of your own choosing within the scope of speculative fictions
- Explore different approaches to future science and technology
- Investigate philosophical notions of nature-culture, human and non-human relations (posthumanism)
- Examine ecofeminist philosophies and social practices
- Investigate more than human futures: intersections between food, animal, gender and environmental studies
- Study indigenous epistemologies and other literatures (saberes ancestrales, natural narratives, geoliterature)
- Reconsider modernity and (post-)coloniality
- Investigate the future and genre (science fiction, utopia, dystopia, apocalyptic literature, cyberpunk, solarpunk, fiction about and beyond AI)
- Apply decolonial methods to literary studies and decolonizing the future
- Investigate translation, translingualism and transculturation
- Explore afrofuturism and techno-orientalism
- Investigate non-capitalist futures
Responsibilities
- Submission of a PhD thesis within the period of appointment
- Participation in meetings of the project research group, as well as in the organization of a conference in Amsterdam
- Publishing one single-authored, peer reviewed article and a co-authored article or chapter within the larger project
- Presentation of intermediate research results at workshops and conferences
- Organisation of knowledge dissemination activities
- (Co-)teaching courses at BA-level in the second and third year of the appointment (maximum 0.2 fte per year)
- Participation in the Research School and Faculty of Humanities PhD training programmes
Requirements
- Completed Master's degree in languages and literatures (Spanish, Italian, French, Chinese, etc.), comparative literature, area studies or a related discipline
- Excellent research skills demonstrated by an outstanding Master's thesis and a record of participating in academic conferences or workshops
- Strong cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research
- Enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences
- Good command of English, in speaking and writing
What We Offer
- Temporary employment contract for the period of 48 months
- First contract for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months, contingent on a positive performance evaluation within the first 12 months
- Employment contract for 38 hours a week
- Salary in the first year of the employment contract €2, and in the last year a maximum of €3, gross per month on the basis of a full working week of 38 hours
- Tuition fee waiver
- Free access to courses offered by the Graduate School of Humanities and the Dutch National Research Schools
- Excellent possibilities for further professional development and education
- Inspiring academic and international work environment in the heart of Amsterdam
