Vacancies | 1 postdoctoral position & 3 PhD positions (COLLAB – ERC Starting Grant project) – University of Leuven
As part of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard Through Literature: How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB, 2023-2028), led by Núria Codina, the University of Leuven (Belgium) is recruiting an international and multilingual team of one postdoctoral researcher and three doctoral students, starting 1 September 2023:
Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fields of Social Sciences and Literary Studies
Institute: University of Leuven
Appointment: Full-time
Application Deadline: 15 April 2023
Contact: nuria.codina@kuleuven.be
More information and application here.
The postdoctoral researcher will study the work of several non-profit organizations across Europe that provide spaces for literary participation of migrants through collaborative writing workshops with amateur authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The research aims to better understand the mission and activities of the selected non-profit organizations; their collaborations with other institutions on different levels; their impact on the cultural field and on migration-related policies and the uses of literature in civil society. The researcher will conduct short research stays in the countries studied to gather new information on the activities of the non-profits and the characteristics of the creative writing workshops offered.
PhD Researcher in the Fields of Social Sciences and Literary Studies
Institute: University of Leuven
Appointment: Full-time
Application Deadline: 15 April 2023
Contact: nuria.codina@kuleuven.be
More information and application here.
The doctoral researcher will study the work of several non-profit organizations across Europe that provide spaces for literary participation of migrants through collaborative writing workshops with amateur authors from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The research aims to better understand the mission and activities of the selected non-profit organizations; the uses of literature in civil society and the thematic and aesthetic features of amateur writing in contexts of migration. The researcher will conduct short research stays in the countries studied to gather new information about the activities of the non-profits and the characteristics of the creative writing workshops offered.
PhD Researcher in Comparative Literature
Institute: University of Leuven
Appointment: Full-time
Application Deadline: 15 April 2023
Contact: nuria.codina@kuleuven.be
More information and application here.
The doctoral researcher will work on the analysis of literary texts written collaboratively by migrants and other authors with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, with a particular focus on single-authored texts that emerge from encounters with migrants and give voice to their stories, reflecting critically on the act of mediation. Challenging strict distinctions between text and context, the researcher will analyze how the power asymmetries that shape the production of the texts (legal status, geographical location of the authors, etc.) impact on their content and form. Through textual analyses and qualitative interviews, the doctoral dissertation aims to better understand the thematic and aesthetic features of collaborative writing in contexts of migration, the ways in which authors negotiate their linguistic and cultural differences and the textual mechanisms by which the process of retelling and translation is made explicit. The research will center around the genres of the anthology and the short story collection, in which examples of literary mediation are particularly prominent.
with strong multilingual skills to work on the analysis of collaborative texts that emerge from encounters with migrants, with a particular focus on the implications of transcultural mediation in the genres of the anthology and the short story collection. More information here: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60195970
PhD Researcher in the Fields of Literary Studies and Business Economics
Institute: University of Leuven
Appointment: Full-time
Application Deadline: 15 April 2023
Contact: nuria.codina@kuleuven.be
More information and application here.
The doctoral researcher will work on the analysis of literary texts published collaboratively through crowdfunding campaigns and will study to what extent the sharing economy enhances the circulation and visibility of texts written with, by and about migrants. The goal of the project is to understand how digital technologies and the sharing economy impact on contemporary literary production and interact with the human rights market. By combining research on crowdfunding from business economics with approaches from the humanities and human rights studies, the doctoral dissertation will study how the sharing economy alters the functioning of the publishing industry and the relationship between readers, texts and authors alike. The research will be partly based on digital humanities tools (text mining, webscraping, topic modeling).
The doctoral researcher will conduct innovative research at the intersection of literary studies, business economics and the sociology of literature under the supervision of Núria Codina (KU Leuven). The researcher will be affiliated with the Research Group Translation and Intercultural Transfer at the Translation Studies Research Unit and will work in close collaboration with staff members from the Literary Studies and Translation Studies Research Units as well as the Faculty of Economics and Business.