The Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a PhD fellowship on 20th century British literature, gender and work.

The focus of the PhD project will be 20th century British literature and 20th century socio-political discourses on gender and work, such as those related to feminist politics and the Women’s Liberation Movement. Within this area, applicants should outline an individual research project that explores potential connections between 20th century literary texts and contemporaneous debates on gender and work in the UK, studies the connections between particular literary modes or strategies and the gendering of work, and considers how new ideas about the gendered division of labour in the 20th century were explored in literary texts.

The PhD project will be part of the research group Feminized: A New Literary History of Women’s Work, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation https://www.carlsbergfondet.dk/en/Forskningsaktiviteter/Bevillingsstatistik/Bevillingsoversigt/CF20_0554_Emily-J-Hogg.The goal of the research project is to explore how aesthetic and thematic engagements with conventional forms of women’s work in twentieth-century anglophone literature contribute to the understanding of a major trend in contemporary global labour markets: the feminization of work. The project aims to develop new approaches to literary history by returning to works from the recent past to show how interpretation of their formal and thematic strategies can be brought into dialogue with the major contemporary issue of feminized labour. Applicants are therefore encouraged to reflect on their literary-historical methodology and explain how their proposed project on 20th century literature can help increase understanding of present challenges related to gender and work.

The working language of the project is English and the PhD thesis should be written in English. The successful candidate will join a dynamic international research group; he/she will be expected to contribute to seminars and workshops organized by the project and demonstrate interest in collaboration and teamwork.

Applicants are encouraged to make early contact with the PI for an informal discussion about their proposed projects.

Applicants should have a master’s degree in English or Comparative Literature or a related discipline.

Please note that not all applicants will receive an assessment due to shortlisting.

For further information regarding the position, please contact Vice Head of Department Anita Nell Bech Albertsen [email protected] or PI, Associate Professor Emily Hogg [email protected].

If you are not a Danish speaking applicant, please make sure to enter the electronic application form via the English website in order to receive further information in English.

Expected start is 1st September 2021.


Application, salary and conditions of employment etc.
A PhD Fellowship is a three-year position. Employment ends automatically by the end of the period. The holder of the fellowship is not allowed to have other paid employment during the three-year period.

The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations), Cirkulære om overenskomst for Akademikere i staten 2019 (the document only exists in Danish).

To qualify for a PhD position, you must have completed a relevant master's degree with a good assessment by the application deadline.

The application should include:

• Special PhD-application form found here
• Curriculum Vitae
• Detailed project description, no more than 5 pages
• Examination certificates
• A maximum of 2 of the most relevant publications. Please attach one pdf-file for each publication. For any publication with a co-author, a co-author statement must be submitted as part of the pdf-file
  
  

Application and all appendices must be in Danish, English or one of the Scandinavian languages. Only material in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and English will be assessed. Please always include a copy of original diploma/certificates.

Please always include a copy of original diploma/certificates. We only accept files in pdf-format no more than 10 MB per file. In case you have more than one file per field you need to combine the pdf-files into a single file, as each field handles only one file. We do not accept zip-files, jpg or other image files. All pdf-files must be unlocked and allow binding and may not be password protected.

Applications will be assessed by an assessment committee and the applicant will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns him/her. The assessment report will subsequently be forwarded to the Head of Department who will assemble an appointments committee. An interview may form part of the overall assessment of the applicants’ qualifications. The committee may request additional information, and if so, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary material.

If the application does not meet the requirements mentioned above, the Faculty of Humanities may reject your application without further notice. Applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated.

Shortlisting and tests may be used in the assessment process. Please note that only a shortlisted applicant will receive an assessment.

Applications should be sent electronically via the link “apply online” and the Faculty expects applicants to read the information “How to apply” before applying.

We recommend that as an international applicant you take the time to visit Working in Denmark where you will find information and facts about moving to, working and living in Denmark, as well as the International Staff Office at SDU.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

Further information about the PhD-program at the Faculty of Humanties can be found here.