Applications for a period of six months (January to June 2014) are now invited from advanced scholars wishing to pursue research in any of the areas covered by the Group and engage in active participation in the Group's activities. Deadline: June 3, 2013
Applicants must have at least a PhD
EA 2325 SEARCH has particular strengths in the following areas:

- British literature & culture, 16th to 18th centuries
- Celtic studies
- Nabokov and contemporary American literature
- Contemporary American politics and culture
- Popular music
- Canadian studies

Two scholarly societies are hosted by the University of Strasbourg and run by members of EA2325: "Société d'Études Canadiennes" and "Société Française Nabokov." Strasbourg has also been selected to coordinate research on 16th-18th centuries in the English-speaking world for the East of France.
EA2325 is made up of forty professors, lecturers and doctoral students, who contribute to the Group's main research topic. As of September 2012 the theme of interest is "Contacts, frictions, clashes." EA2325 organizes seminars and conferences throughout the year, and is involved in fruitful interdisciplinary dialogue with other Research Groups in the University: modern languages, French literature, history, theology. The Visiting Fellow will be encouraged to take part in these activities and will be invited to present a paper at one of our seminars.
The Group has strong ties with scholars from the Universities of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg-im-Breisgau (Germany), Haute-Alsace-Mulhouse (France) within the EUCOR-English network, with a joint project on the relationships between the Upper-Rhine area and the English-speaking world (Diasporic Cultural Topographies). The applicant will have the possibility to present a paper in the EUCOR seminars and will have free access to the libraries of the four institutions.
The Fellowship is conceived as an opportunity to combine individual and self-directed research and engagement with the research conducted in the Group. Although the Fellowship does not imply full-time residence in Strasbourg, it would be of particular interest to scholars on leave from their home institutions, so as best to benefit from the city's rich cultural life and long-standing University tradition.

A CV and a cover letter stating how the applicant's project would fit in with the Group's activities should be sent by June 3, 2013 to
Notification will be given by June 20, 2013.

Please note that funding cannot be guaranteed.

(posted 13 May 2013)

The English Department of the Faculty of Science, Humanities and Education of the Technical University of Liberec, the Czech Republic is looking for a Habilitated Doctor (Docent) in
The applicant must have a habilitation (e.g. Priv.-Doz., Univ.-Doz., dr hab, Habil dr., Dr. habil, Doc.) in one of the fields mentioned above.
Job description: teaching eight 45-minute classes per week, active involvement in research and writing research articles
Salary: € 1,100.00 per month approximately, health insurance included
Accommodation: provided free of charge in the Hall of Residence for academic workers

Application procedure
Please send your CV (including certificates proving your qualification), a letter stating reasons for applying for the position and the name and contact details of at least one referee  to <marcela.mala@tul.cz> as an e-mail attachment. Deadline: 31 May 2013

The English Department is in charge of a Bachelor's and a follow-up Master's programme in teaching English to lower-secondary school students. The Department was founded in 1992. It is characterized by a remarkably young and motivated faculty, eager to try new methods and break new grounds. Furthermore, having only ten faculty members, it is compact enough to make employees feel that they are members of a team, striving for a common goal. At the same time, the geographical location of Liberec makes it both an ideal location for research (1 hour from Prague, 2 hours from Dresden) and one for refreshing active relaxation (picturesque mountain ranges, national parks, reservations and lakes nearby).

(posted 19 April 2013)

The research laboratory CECILLE at the Université de Lille 3, France is offering a two-year post-doctoral contract beginning in September 2013.
For more information and to request an application form, please contact Jean François Delcroix <jean-francois.delcroix@univ-lille3.fr)>.

PhD Career Development : how are European models applicable at a local level?
Postdoc Research Project:
The research group CECILLE has made the career development of its PhDs a high priority, especially in non-academic sectors. It works closely with the Doctoral School of Humanities and Social Sciences in the University of Lille (l’École doctorale SHS de l’Université Lille-Nord de France), where it makes an important contribution to the PhD follow-up programme, forging and maintaining links with socio-economic partners in the region. Its expertise in the study of foreign cultures, combined with a strongly interdisciplinary scientific ethos, make it perfectly placed to enable a postdoctoral researcher to examine how European models of career development for PhDs might be applicable at a regional level. In neighbouring countries, particularly in the North West of Europe, the skills and aptitudes of candidates with PhDs appear to be automatically recognised by a wide range of non-academic employers. For historical and cultural reasons, the situation in France is very different. In the long term, the outcomes of the proposed research project would have direct practical applications not only for CECILLE, but for the whole sector of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lille (3). CECILLE is very keen to collaborate on this project with research groups in fields beyond its own areas of expertise in the study of foreign cultures (e.g. Sociology, Educational Science etc.).

The candidate, preferably of foreign (non-French) nationality, should have extensive knowledge of various European cultures and their education systems. He or she should also have an in-depth knowledge of the French education system, whilst possessing the critical distance necessary to propose innovative concrete solutions to the problem of PhD career development in the local region. This project falls under the umbrella of CECILLE’s contractual five-year research strategy ("interculturality, solidarity, creativity"), which is currently under construction, and will therefore contribute to the research group's efforts to interact with regional socio-economic, administrative and political partners. It will thus exemplify how scientific research can make a direct and meaningful contribution to society.

(posted 16 April 2013)

The University of Muenster offers within the framework of the DFG Research Training Group "Literary Form. Historical and Cultural Formations of Aesthetic Models" (GRK 1886/1) up to 12 doctoral positions (65% TV-L E13 for three years).
Starting date is October 1, 2013.

The Research Training Group
Research Training Groups funded by the German Research Council put key emphasis on the qualification of doctoral researchers within the framework of a focused research programme and a structured training environment. Their aim is to prepare doctoral researchers for academic and non-academic job markets and to encourage independent research right from the beginning.
The following departments are involved in the present Research Training Group: Anglistik, Germanistik, Germanistische Mediävistik, Klassische Philologie, Niederlandistik, Romanistik, Slavistik.

The Programme
The Research Training Group "Literary Form" offers a curriculum embracing both a stringently structured, high-profile core programme and a wide range of electives. In this way, it ensures the efficient combination of individual doctoral tutoring with profound theoretical debate and the acquisition of additional skills and qualifications to increase employability. The programme's key institutional strengths are the University of Muenster's broad range of flexible and readily available supervisory capacities, its wealth of courses in the field of literary studies, its well-established internal scholarly co-operation and its high degree of integration in international networks, as well as the strategic role graduates will play in the scholarly and administrative development of the Research Training Group itself.

Research
Literary texts model realities in a way that is fundamentally constituted by aesthetic form. The Research Training Group takes as its subject the re-assessment and combination of two elements central to this commonplace: that of form and of the model. The former has always been at the centre of attention of literary studies as the subject of any historical or theoretical inquiry into concepts such as genre, metaphor or realism, but also of fundamental questions after fictionality and reference, mediality and materiality. Two qualifications apply, however, as recent developments have shown: on the one hand, students of history, the social sciences, and the natural sciences have also realised the vital importance of fiction and aesthetic form for their disciplines’ models of reality; on the other hand, literary studies are in danger of neglecting the specific potency of literary form, abandoning this concern for the sake of theoretical debates and the latest 'cultural turns'. It is this twofold assessment that the Research Training Group takes as its point of departure, approaching traditional questions of literary form from the more general perspective of modelling. This approach enables literary studies, in the narrow sense of the word, to realize its innovative potential for and its interconnectivity with theoretical and historical research of a very wide scope. At the same time, it grounds the relations between extra-literary discourse and literary form in a new, ‘literary’ epistemology. Studies produced by the Research Training Group thus aim to contribute in innovative ways to the general knowledge system and its debates by re-addressing central questions of aesthetic form from a historical and systematic vantage point.
For further information, please visit the project website at www.uni-muenster.de/GRKLitForm/.

Application
The following documents should be sent by 15 April 2013 in electronic format (pdf) to <leonie.windt@uni-muenster.de>:
Please also name two persons of reference, whose letters of reference should be sent directly to the email address given below.
Interviews will take place on 3 and 4 June 2013 in Muenster. Successful candidates will be notified shortly afterwards.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Stierstorfer (Director of the Research Training Group)

Contact:
Leonie Windt, M.A.
Englisches Seminar
Johannisstr. 12-20
D-48143 Muenster
Tel. +49 (0) 251-83-24295 (secretary)
Email: <leonie.windt@uni-muenster.de>

(posted 15 March 2013)

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Start of grant: as soon as a suitable candidate has been selected

If you are interested in one of the above PhD grants, please send a letter of motivation, a CV, and two references in electronic form to:

Additional information:
Institute for Language and Communication: http://www.uclouvain.be/ilc
(Dis)fluency project: http://www.uclouvain.be/415256.html
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics: http://www.uclouvain.be/cecl
CENTAL: http://www.uclouvain.be/cental
Valibel -- Discours and Variation: http://www.uclouvain.be/valibel

(posted 21 January 2013)

Applications are invited for the Seamus Heaney Professorship in Irish Writing in the School of English, tenable from September 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a new Chair which has been endowed to the College and named in honour of Ireland's leading poet and Nobel Laureate.

The successful candidate will be a major scholar with an international profile who will provide innovative academic leadership in the area of Irish Writing in English. Qualified candidates with specialist expertise in any area of Irish literary history or Irish literary criticism are invited to apply.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach at all levels, to undertake and supervise research, and to enhance the research culture in the School by attracting research students and funding. S/he will also play a leadership role in the School's Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, and in the further development of the School’s links to Irish and international universities and research bodies.

Information about the School of English can be found at http://www.tcd.ie/English
Further particulars of the appointment can be obtained at http://www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies
Closing date: noon, Friday, 22nd February 2013
Trinity College is an equal opportunities employer.

Acmhainní Daonna, Teach 4, Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath 2, Éire
Human Resources, House 4, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
T 353 (0)1 896 1678, F 353 (0)1 677 2694, <hr@tcd.ie>, http://www.tcd.ie/hr

(posted 12 December 2012)

The Institute of English, German and Communication Studies and Department of Economics, Koszalin University of Technology, Poland, offers a post of a professor of economics (as of new academic year 2013/14).

The potential applicant must be British/Irish national, a PhD holder in economics, marketing or related areas.
More info from <wojciech.klepuszewski@tu.koszalin.pl>

(posted 6 November 2012)