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Vacancy | Assistant Professorships at UvA

April 21, 2021/in Vacancies /by Pepita
Vacancy

Dear all,

Please find enclosed the vacancies for two Assistant Professors in Literary and Cultural Analysis (UvA) and one Assistant Professor Queer and/or Transgender Media Studies and Cultural Analysis (UvA). For other vacancies within the Faculty of Humanities of UvA, we refer you to their website.

Two Assistant Professors in Literary and Cultural Analysis

University of Amsterdam
Application deadline: 6 May
Find more information here

The Faculty of Humanities, Department of English is looking for two Assistant Professors in Literary and Cultural Analysis.

As a temporary replacement for a staff member who obtained a research grant, you will teach in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods within the Literary and Cultural Analysis (LCA) capacity group within the Department of Literary Studies and Linguistics. Combining perspectives from Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Literary and Cultural Analysis is dedicated to research and teaching on contemporary culture, the arts, and literature at the intersection of politics and philosophy. We try to make sense of and reflect on works of literature, art, and (popular) culture in close relation to contemporary controversies and developments. Among others, our research topics include globalization, space, borders, and migration; sexuality and gender, queer and trans studies; precarity and the critique of neoliberalism; and urban cultures, street life, and new forms of activism.

Assistant Professor Queer and/or Transgender Media Studies and Cultural Analysis

University of Amsterdam
Application deadline: 9 May
More information here

The Department of Media Studies is looking for an Assistant Professor Queer and/or Transgender Media Studies and Cultural Analysis.

You will provide education in a dynamic context with ample opportunities for the development of innovative teaching methods. The position is based in the Department of Media Studies – but comprises structural teaching responsibilities in the the Department of Literary Studies and Linguistics, in the Literary and Cultural Analysis (LCA) group.

Other Vacancies

See the UvA vacancies page here for the UD positions in the rest of the Faculty of Humanities.

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