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Date: 2024-05-27 13:36:07+00:00
From: Neugarten, J.L. (Julia) <julia.neugarten@ru.nl>
Subject: PhD studentships: Civic Fictions (Nijmegen)
Dear colleagues,
We are currently advertising this fully funded PhD position at Radboud
University (The Netherlands), for which we are ideally seeking a candidate with
a completed MA in French. Unfortunately, due to delays in approving the
position, the deadline is now extremely short (June 13!), so should you know of
a promising candidate, please do forward this a.s.a.p. to them.
The full announcement and application links can be found online: PhD Candidate:
Civic Fictions Project | Radboud University
(ru.nl)<https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidate-civic-
fictions-project>
PhD candidate
As part of the Dutch Research Council-funded Vici project on Civic fictions, you
will design a PhD project with a book history focus, to study the 18th-century
reception of texts and publications dealing with slavery and abolition from a
comparative European perspective (France, British Isles, Netherlands). You will
use 18th-century debates on slavery and abolition as a case study to test the
validity of modern theories of fiction-induced empathy as a force for societal
change. In particular, you will identify and study historical readers of
slavery-related books, including women, to explore the intersection of multiple
societal players and political agendas, and the 18th-century gendering of
slavery discourse.
To address these questions, you will establish a corpus of fictional and non-
fictional publications relating to slavery, mapping their occurrences across the
Vici project data ecosystem (private library catalogues, bookseller archives,
library lending records, and more, as recorded in MEDIATE<https://mediate-
database.cls.ru.nl/about/>, FBTEE<http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/stn/interface/>,
SHEWROTE<https://www.ru.nl/en/research/research-projects/shewrote>, and other
databases). You will establish links between texts, books and historical
readers, and identify specific reader constituencies in this reception history.
By analysing the emerging patterns and frequencies, and focusing on a number of
significant case studies, you will ultimately provide new insight into the
multiple meanings of slavery for 18th-century readers, and the question how they
read slavery discourse – empathically, or within other epistemological
frameworks.
Profile
* You hold an MA degree in a relevant discipline, preferably literary
studies or history.
* You have a demonstrable affinity with research, as evidenced by
presentations at academic conferences, editorial assistantships for scholarly
journals, or one or more publications or co-publications.
* You have excellent spoken and written skills in English, and preferably
also in French.
* You have reading knowledge of Dutch, or are willing to acquire it.
* Experience with DH research and tools, especially bibliometric databases
and quantitative (statistical) analyses, will be considered an asset.
* You work accurately and assume responsibility for your own development
process as a researcher.
* You are a team player with a flexible, critical and proactive attitude.
The PhD will be part of the Civic Fictions project team, consisting of one other
PhD candidate, two postdoctoral researchers, and the PI, all housed in the
French section of the Department of Modern Languages. The project team regularly
collaborates with sister project teams based in Liverpool and Sydney, as well as
other international projects.
Faculty of Arts, Radboud University
The Faculty of Arts<https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/organisation/faculties/arts>
at Radboud University is committed to the development of knowledge with a strong
scientific and social impact. With over 500 academic and support staff, we teach
and conduct research in the fields of art, history, language, culture and
communication, using innovative methodologies and collaborating closely across
disciplines. Our research is embedded in two research institutes: the Centre for
Language Studies<https://www.ru.nl/en/cls> (CLS) and the Radboud Institute for
Culture & History<https://www.ru.nl/en/rich> (RICH). Approximately 2,500
students<https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/organisation/faculties/arts/education>
are currently enrolled with us across our three departments: the Department of
History, Art History and Classics, the Department of Modern Languages and
Cultures and the Department of Language and Communication. The faculty is
characterised by a pleasant and open culture with various opportunities for the
professional development of our staff.
We offer
* We will give you a temporary employment contract (0.8 FTE 5- year contract
- 1.0 FTE 4- year contract) of 1,5 years, after which your performance will be
evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, your contract will be extended by 2.5
years (4-year contract) or 3.5 years (5-year contract).
* You will receive a starting salary of €2,770 gross per month based on a
38-hour working week, which will increase to €3,539 from the fourth year onwards
(salary scale P<https://www.ru.nl/en/staff/services/salary-and-selection-
model/salary/salary-scales>).
* You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
* You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Support
Service<https://www.ru.nl/en/staff/services/living-working-and-studying-in-the-
netherlands/dual-career-family-support-services>. The Dual Career Programme
assists your partner via support, tools, and resources to improve their chances
of independently finding employment in the Netherlands. Our Family Support
Service helps you and your partner feel welcome and at home by providing
customised assistance in navigating local facilities, schools, and amenities.
Also take a look at our support for international staff
<https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/support-for-international-staff> page to
discover all our services for international employees.
* You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose
between 30 or 41 days<https://www.ru.nl/en/staff/services/employment-
conditions/working-time/flexible-working-hours> of annual leave instead of the
statutory 20.
Practical information and applying
You can apply only via the button on our website, PhD Candidate: Civic Fictions
Project | Radboud University (ru.nl)<https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-
opportunities/phd-candidate-civic-fictions-project>. Address your letter of
application to prof. A.C. Montoya. In the application form, you will find which
documents you need to include with your application.
The first interviews will take place on 26 June. You will preferably start your
employment on 1 September.
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On behalf of project lead Alicia Montoya,
Julia Neugarten MA | PhD Candidate: Gods, Heroes, Myths: Anchoring and
Innovating Classical Motifs in Fanfiction |
Radboud University | Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
Website<https://julianeugarten.github.io/julianeugarten/>
Recent publications:
Delicious Angst and Tooth-Rotting Fluff: Distant Reading Community Discourses of
Emotion in Harry Potter Fanfiction
Comments<https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jfs_00082_1>
(2023)
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