Associate professor, PhD

Competition disciplines ”Methods and Systems of Interpretation”, ”Comparative Literature Course: The Politician and Literature”; ”Universal and Comparative Literature Course: Existentialism, Postmodernism”; ”Marginality and Canon” involve complex approaches that reach multiple theories, related to the idea of canon and of marginality, to the reconstruction of the paradigm of comparative literature in the current context of the crisis of disciplines, as well as in the context of complex interrelations between the power systems and the global or planetary narrative systems. The in-depth knowledge of the mentality analyses of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, of the theories of the imaginary, as well as of the main currents of ideas that marked this period, such as existentialism, postmodernism, analysis of power structures that made possible totalitarianism, but also, in the past, the ethnographic imaginary that has been deconstructed, are essential for placing the discipline in contemporaneity and for a rigorous and coherent analysis of what comparative literature means nowadays. This interdisciplinary approach implies an important capacity for synthesis and speculation, as well as a multipurpose discourse of the candidate.
Candidates must meet all the requirements regarding the scientific activity, as provided by the standards of the "Babes-Bolyai" University.
Related to the job requirements, the conditions that the candidates must meet are as follows:
1. PhD in the field of philology.
2. Consolidated, didactic and research experience, in the field of philology, in comparative literature and in the disciplines involved by the job load.
3. A creative approach to teaching the competition disciplines.
4. The candidates must as well have the scientific record in accordance with the philological field, respectively with the research specialization provided in the announcement of the competition:
For the function of associate professor (conf. dr.) and CS II are cumulatively required:
a) fulfilling the national minimum standards specific to these functions, established by order of the Minister of Education;
b) fulfilling the minimum university standards as follows:
In order to occupy the functions of associate professor (conf. dr.) and CS II, the minimum standards regarding all activities, criteria and indicators, established by the specialized CNATDCU commissions, must be met. In addition, as specific standards of the Faculty of Letters, the candidates must exceed, as a whole, with at least 5% the total score established by the minimum standards of CNATDCU. The additional points can be distributed in any of the categories of the grid.

For the position of associate professor (conf. dr.), the competition consists of:
1. the evaluation of the candidates' files, at the Faculty of Letters, by the members of the competition committee.
2. the presentation of a public lecture on a topic relevant to the position opened for competition, chosen by the candidate from the announced topics of competition, on July 9, 2024, at Ioana Em. Petrescu Hall of the Faculty of Letters.
For the position of associate professor (conf. dr.), in the evaluation, the candidate's file containing his professional achievements counts for 75%, and the public lecture counts for 25% of the final grade, proposed by the individual evaluation written by each member of the competition committee.
Competition committee
• appreciates the quality of the lecture and asks questions insisting on the specifics of the topics in the field of comparative literature studies as well as on their particular didactics. It also evaluates candidates from the perspective of the following aspects:
• the relevance and impact of the candidates' scientific results;
• the ability of candidates to guide students or young researchers;
• the didactic skills of the candidates;
• the ability of candidates to transfer their knowledge to the economic or social environment or to popularize their own scientific results;
• the ability of candidates to work in a team and the efficiency of their scientific collaborations;
• candidates' ability to lead research and development projects;
• the candidates' professional experience in institutions other than the institution organizing the competition;
The competition commission prepares, following the evaluation, the competition documents and displays the competition results for each candidate on the faculty's web page.

Topics:

Canon and Marginality. Comparative Literature in a Planetary Context
Violence, Autofiction and Power Systems
Existentialism, Postmodernism. New Paradigms of Interpretation
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