[csaa-forum] Two PhD positions: Back to the Book (NL)

Wed Feb 2 06:36:01 CST 2011

*2 PhD students in the research project Back to the Book (1,0 fte)*

*Specifications -
(explanation)<http://www.academictransfer.com/help_specifications_en/>
*

Location

Postbus 80125 3508 TC Utrecht

Function types

PhD positions

Scientific fields

Language and Culture

Hours

40.0 hours per week

Salary

€ 2042 - € 2612

Education

University Graduate

End procedure

19 February 2011

Job number

681103 and 681104

Translations

*en* <http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/8050/lang/en/>

*Apply for this job within 18
days*<http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/8050/apply/>

*Job description*

The project Back to the Book researches the resilience of the book as a
literary medium in the digital age. Since the late 1980s, scholars have
claimed that the future of Western literature as an art form would be
electronic: innovations in literature would come from the electronic
technology of hypertext, replacing paper and books as state-of-the-art
bearers of the literary. Why has this not occurred yet? Why have we seen
that literature - precisely since the 1990s – has reinvented itself just as
radically on paper as it has on screen? The project aims to answer this
question from the new perspective of media divergence. The project will
focus on the fields of book-altering, (typo-)graphic fiction, and personal
zines respectively. The two PhD positions will focus on the latter two
fields.
The entire research project is financed by the Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Researsch (NWO) within its Innovative Research
Scheme (VIDI).

Provisional project website:
http://kienebrillenburgwurth.wordpress.com/back-to-the-book/

*PhD-project I: The Novel and the New: Graphic Fiction in the Digital
Age 
*(vacancy
number 681103)

The project researches how the paper-based novel has evolved
during the age of digitization (1990-2010) as a new, hybrid medium, whereby
book, page, print, texture, design, and story form one integral whole. What
does this development tell us about the interaction, or precisely the
contrast, between analog and digital media? Do these novels test the limits
of the book, or, conversely, the limits of the internet?

*PhD-project II: Self-Expression in Personal Zines*
(vacancy number
681104)

Nowadays, communal and networked writing is generally seen as an
innovative aspect of digital media (weblogs, twitter). This project shows
the contrary. It is focused on personal zines: hand-made, non-commercially
produced and distributed personal manuscripts that can be autobiographic in
nature, and that are part of a paper-based subculture parallel to the
internet. How do perzines recycle an “old” manuscript culture and how do
they thus function as predecessors and alternatives to online writing
communities?

*Requirements*

Both candidate I and II are expected to be enthusiastic researchers with
excellent track records. Both candidates need to have graduated in a
relevant field and have specialized in comparative literature, especially as
concerns the study of intermediality, textuality and digitization,
avant-garde and/or with a special interest in book art. Candidate II needs
to have sufficient skills in archive research and, if possible, modes of
reader-response research. Both candidate I and II should be teamplayers and
be able to work on deadlines.

*Conditions of employment*

We offer two PhD positions (1,0 fte) with a one year contract beginning June
1, 2011. After a positive evaluation this contract can be extended to a
maximum of three more years (a total of four years maximum). This provides
graduates with an opportunity to finish their doctoral dissertation in four
years, funded by NWO. The PhD researchers, also referred to as doctoral
candidates, are expected to take courses at the Dutch National School of
Literature and/or the Netherlands Institute of Cultural Analysis. The salary
will start at € 2,042,- and increases to € 2.612,- gross per month in the
fourth year fo the appointment. We also offer solid benefits.

*Contract type*

Temporary

*Organisation*

Utrecht University, Faculty of Humanities

Utrecht University, founded in 1636, is one of the largest and most
prominent universities in Europe. The Faculty of Humanities, with nearly
7,000 students and 900 staff members, offers an inspiring and dynamic
working environment. Our research and education programmes focus on
language, culture, history, the arts, literature, media, philosophy and
theology. Our strongest points are interdisciplinary and international
collaboration, excellent quality of research and education, and the use of
modern media. The research programmes are organised within four institutes:

         Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL-OTS);

         Research Institute of History and Culture (OGC);

         Leiden-Utrecht Research Institute of Philosophy (ZENO);

         Research Institute of Theological and Religious Studies (INTEGON).

The  Utrecht University Graduate School of Humanities guarantees an
outstanding quality of educational programmes for Research Master students
as well as PhD students. Moreover, Utrecht University offers attractive
working conditions.

The faculty is divided into six departments, which
includes the Department of Modern Languages. This  department with its two
Schools monitors bachelor education and master programmes in the areas of
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Celtic as well as
Linguistics and Literary Studies. The research programmes in these areas are
carried out under the supervision of either the Research Institute for
History and Culture (OGC) or the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL-OTS).

*Additional information*

Are you interested? For more information on either of the positions, please
contact the project leader dr K. Brillenburg Wurth, email: c.a.w.*
brillenburgwurth*@uu.nl <c.a.w.brillenburgwurth at uu.nl>. Applicants can also
consult the OGC
website<http://www.uu.nl/faculty/humanities/EN/research/researchinstitutes/ogc/Pages/default.aspx>and
the provisionele website of the project
Back to the Book<http://kienebrillenburgwurth.wordpress.com/back-to-the-book/>
.

More information about employer Utrecht
University<http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/>on
AcademicTransfer. Direct link to this job opening:
www.academictransfer.com/8050

-- 
Dr Anna Poletti
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Faculty of Arts
Monash University
VIC 3800, Australia

e: Anna.Poletti at monash.edu
ph: +61 3 9905 2131
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