The Arts and Humanities Research Institute serves as a forum for research activities across the School of Humanities' principal disciplines: English Literature & Creative Writing, History, Philosophy & Aesthetics, and Politics. The Institute offers two Visiting Research Fellowships for one semester, tenable in either semester one or two 2010-2011. The Fellowship is open to postdoctoral researchers or established academics in the Humanities. It is intended to promote research activities within the School of Humanities. The Fellowship may be held in any of the areas of interest of the Institute. Priority will be given to applicants whose research topic enhances one or more of our current research themes.

General Conditions: In addition to undertaking research, Fellows will be expected to give two open lectures during the period of their tenure, and to participate in the overall research activities of the Institute. Office space would be provided and Fellows may be assigned small teaching duties in the programme to which the fellow would be attached.
Value of Fellowships: The Fellowships carry a stipend of £5000 each, tenable in semester one or two of session 2010-11.The amount of these payments is absolute and no additional costs will be paid.
Applications: There is no application form. Applications should be made by letter accompanied by an up to date Curriculum Vitae and a 500 word outline research proposal.
Closing date: for the applications is 16 August 2010.
Applications may be sent by post to Manik Deepak Gopinath, School of Humanities, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland (UK) or by email at <m.deepakgopinath@dundee.ac.uk>.

(posted 2 July 2010)

(Pre ‘95 applies to staff who have been employed in the public sector prior to April 1995 / Post ‘95 applies to existing staff employed in the public sector post April 1995/new entrants to the public sector)

The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences seeks to make a senior appointment in Digital Humanities. The post, which has been philanthropically funded, is to be held within the relevant School in the Faculty and in association with the Trinity Long Room Hub, our research institute for the Arts and Humanities. It is expected that the successful applicant shall align themselves with one of the following schools: English or Histories and Humanities or Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.

Applicants will have a Ph.D., an excellent research profile in Digital Humanities, and relevant teaching and leadership experience.

(posted 10 June 2010, updated 21 June 2010, updated 25 June 2010)

- teaching up to 16 timetabled hours
- preparing and marking tests and other assessments
- attending departmental and general meetings
- coordinating with colleagues and course directors on matters relating to teaching and learning

Send your application with full C.V (including documents related to qualifications), a covering letter stating reasons for applying for the position, and any other relevant attachments in PDF to: <cazevedo@letras.up.pt> and <rchomem@letras.up.pt>

The President
Department of Anglo-American Studies
Faculty of Letters
Via Panorâmica, s/n
4150-564 Porto
PORTUGAL

(posted 18 May 2010)

Applications are invited for a PhD-position at the Centre for European Reception Studies (http://www.ceres-hub.be), based at the Faculty of Language and Literature of the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (http://www.hubrussel.be) and affiliated with the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (http://www2.arts.kuleuven.be).

The PhD-project in question is entitled Thomas De Quincey, Aesthetic Ideology and the Translation of German Idealism, and pursues a critical reassessment of De Quincey’s works by means of a rhetorical analysis of his translations and critical essays and the specific intellectual context in which they were produced. The project will combine a historical-discursive analysis of De Quincey’s engagement with German and British thought with a theoretical inquiry into his practice of translation as inherent part of his ideological, aesthetic and rhetorical theories. Supervisors of the project are dr. Tom Toremans (H.U. Brussel) and prof. dr. Ortwin de Graef (K.U. Leuven).

-    a distinction-level Masters degree in Literary Studies (specialization in literary theory is encouraged)
-    an outstanding record of undergraduate and Master’s level work
-    preferably research experience in the relevant field (Romanticism, rhetorical criticism and the theoretical discourse on aesthetic ideology)

-    excellent writing and speaking skills in English, good reading skills in German

-    the position begins 1 October 2010, the applicant will be based at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (the project is funded by the Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds (BOF) of the H.U. Brussel)
-    the successful applicant will be appointed at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel for one year.  After a positive evaluation, the position will be extended for another three years
-    net salary will be appr. 1.800 EUR per month, gradually rising to appr. 2.000 EUR per month in the final year
-    the applicant completes the doctoral programme at the Faculty of Arts of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
-    applicants should be EU citizens, or have a permanent residence permit in Belgium, or be citizens of a country with which Belgium has a treaty regarding social security

-    a  cover letter, in which you specify why you are interested in this project and why you consider yourself a suitable candidate
-    a current CV
-    transcripts of your qualifications to date (degrees and grade lists)
-    a writing sample (chapter of your Masters thesis, article, …)
-    names and full contact details of two referees 

Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel
Tom Toremans
Koningsstraat 336 (room 112)
1030 Brussels
Belgium
<tom.toremans@hubrussel.be>

(posted 10 May 2010)