FORM FOR EMPLOYER
INSTITUTION: University of Łódź, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Contemporary Culture, Department of Cultural Research
CITY: Łódź, Poland
POSITION: research assistant (full-time research position)
DISCIPLINE: literature / culture and religion studies / arts studies
POSTED: 28.10.2022
EXPIRES: 15.12.2022
WEBSITES: http://filolog.uni.lodz.pl/?p=22248
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Applications should be delivered only via email to euterpe@uni.lodz.pl
KEYWORDS: Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

General Description:
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN.01 EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective project is looking for Doctoral Candidates to participate in the project. Currently one position is open with the University of Lodz for DC8 to do research and write a thesis on Intermedial diffusions: creative interfaces of transnational women’s literature and the arts (WP8).

The aim of “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective” is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies. EUTERPE proposes to train and supervise 11 DCs in interdisciplinary, transnational, gender focused literary studies.

The EUTERPE project will recruit, employ and provide advanced training for 11 Doctoral Candidates who will research European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective across four main areas that form the core of our eight research and training Work Packages, and are focused as follows:
1. Transnational women’s literature and its travels: points of entry and pathways (WP 1, WP2);
2. Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity (WP 3, WP4, WP 10);
3. Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies (WP 5, WP6, WP 11);
4. Transnational literature and cultural production: intermediality as a form of translation (WP7, WP8).

Major impact objectives of the project will be to produce 11 PhD theses; an open source Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe with key concepts and bio-bibliographic entries on leading representatives of the field; and a Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library, which will make accessible all relevant material collected during the creation of the Dictionary.
At the University of Lodz, the work of the DC will be supervised by Professor Dorota Golańska.

As a part of their research training, the EUTERPE DC will have the following duties:
• Enroll as a PhD student in the PhD program with the University of Lodz; fulfill all the requirements of the program and work towards the completion of their PhD thesis within the deadline set by the university.
• Spend a compulsory secondment period of 6 months at the University of Granada during the second year of their tenure. During this period they will receive further research training and will conduct comparative research.
• Undertake two months of guided internship with an EUTERPE Associate Partner that works on a field relevant to the Doctoral Candidate's expertise.
• Work closely with their employability mentor in the development of a bespoke Employability Enhancement Plan.
• Attend the project-wide training events, including 5 education events in the form of summer and spring schools.
• Participate in the creation of the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, an open-source publication by CEU Press by researching material for the Dictionary and contribute to writing the entries.
• Collectively with the other Doctoral Candidates participate in the EUTERPE Transnational Literary Research Laboratory creating the content of the Dictionary/Catalogue/Podcast Library following the Doctoral Candidate’s chosen track of contribution.
• Participate in the EUTERPE Final conference and promotion of the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, the Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library in Vienna in the fall of 2026.
• Contribute to the final project report in the summer of 2026.

Benefits:
Each Doctoral Candidate will receive a 36-month grant to cover their participation costs, living, travel and installation allowance, family allowance, as follows:
Living allowance: gross salary € 1770/month (remuneration will be paid after conversion in PLN)
Mobility allowance: € 600/month
Optional family allowance

The DCs will be provided with facilities necessary for their research.
Initial appointment is for the period of one year with the possibility of extension for a further maximum of 24 months after positive evaluation in the first year.

Requirements:
EUTERPE project looks for candidates who can demonstrate expertise both in literary and gender studies, with a particular interest in contemporary European literatures. The UL-PhD-project will investigate the strategies of forging creative alliances, analogies, and divergencies occurring at the intersection of transnational women’s literature and visual/performative artistic practices. It will focus on how the narratives and experiences conveyed via transnational women’s literature get imaginatively expanded and inventively diffused through trans- and intermedial cultural production, and how these processes contribute to the (de/re)construction of the European identities. The project will pay attention to the intensive inter- and intra-actions of form and content within a cultural text or product, engaging with the question of how the transition to a different medium creates opportunities for redefining/adjusting the content of a narrative, and how these negotiations emerge as a product of different (trans/national) locations and shifting situatedness. Such discussions are partly enabled by sociocultural transformations (through, for instance, wider access to different technologies of communication), which facilitate the largescale circulation of narratives, contributing to the emergence of new transnational experiences, cross-cultural accounts, and transcultural aesthetics as well as of new forms of public engagement with them. Furthermore, the research project will focus on how such strategies might be productively employed in broader efforts to create transcultural dialogues and understanding.
Admission to the program is open to applicants who hold a 2nd Level Master Degree (120 ECTS + 180 ECTS in a bachelor degree) or a Single Cycle Degree (minimum 300 ECTS), or a comparable university degree (Second Cycle qualification), as required by the partner universities for admission to doctoral studies. Applicants are expected to achieve their degree within November 28th, 2022. They shall submit a certified copy of any degree achieved by the deadline of January 31st, 2023.
Degree(s) earned in the fields of Literature / Cultural Studies / Religion / Art Studies / Ethnic Studies or similar.
English language proficiency at the level required by the partner university where the Doctoral Candidate is posted.
MSCA DN Requirements:
Applicants should not yet have been awarded a doctorate. They must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of their host organization for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before their recruitment date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account. More detailed explanation of these eligibility conditions can be found here:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/europea...
Furthermore, the ideal candidate has a background and proven interest in transnational literary and art studies and gender studies. In addition, the candidate is interested in international collaboration and willing to attend all EUTERPE training schools, has completed master’s degree in a relevant field, has good interpersonal skills as well as good written and oral communication skills in English, and is dedicated to completing the PhD research, as well as the contributions to the other network deliverables within the allotted time.
Required documents:
• filled out application form,
• application letter (not exceeding 500 words),
• CV,
• reference letters from 2 academic and 1 non-academic referees, submitted by the referees,
• 1000-word research proposal as required,
• an official English version or certified translation of your full master's transcript (transcript = an official report supplied by a school on the record of an individual student, listing subjects studied and grades received), including an explanation of the grading system,
• an official English version or certified translation of your master's diploma,
• proof of language proficiency according to the recruiting university’s requirements,
• (optional) an academic writing sample,
• the following statement: “I consent to the processing of my personal data for the purposes of the recruitment process (in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act of August 29, 1997, Journal of Laws No. 133, item 883).”
Please send your complete application package to euterpe@uni.lodz.pl before midnight December 15, 2022 putting in the subject line “job application DC9”.
Short-listed candidates will be invited to participate in either on-line or in-person job interviews and will be subject to pre-employment checks prior to any appointment. Informal inquiries may be addressed to euterpe@ceu.edu.
Date of announcement: 28.02.2023

culture and religion studies

Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies