Doctoral Research Fellowships (three positions) within ERC research project JEUX (ref 261643)

4 May 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

University of Oslo

Research Field

Literature

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Norway

Application Deadline

15 Aug 2024 - 23:00 (Europe/Oslo)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

37.5

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

The positions form part of the ERC-funded research project JEUX – Literary Games, Poetics and the Early-Modern Novel (101087560) . JEUX investigates how literary authors model their own practice creatively through play. The project goes beyond traditional metaphors of literature as gameplay and investigates an actual literary game from theoretical, historical and empirical perspectives. The project investigates representations of game-playing practices in early-modern novels, novelists’ participation in literary salons and the impact that these practices have on how the novel gets established as a genre. JEUX will explore cultural practices as a potential site for creativity, innovation and community also in the contemporary world.

Three doctoral research fellowships are available to investigate literary games in the early-modern period, with a particular emphasis on France in the seventeenth century and the relationship between literary games and the developing genre of the novel.

Possible areas of research include but are not limited to:

(1)    Reception: Playing games with the ancient world, for example in writing fictional biographies, and drawing on texts from Greek and Roman antiquity for generating fictional worlds.

(2)    Interactions between literary games and the larger narrative of the novel. Possible projects investigate the relationship between the novels of the period and anthologies of portraits or letters, as well as maxims, proverbs or emblems.

(3)    Presentation of narrators and their stories in collaborative settings. Possible core texts include novella collections, fictions set in the literary salons or collections of literary fairy tales.

Candidates are invited to present their own choice of core texts from French seventeenth-century literature, which can also include comparisons to other early-modern literatures (such as Italian, German or English traditions). Interdisciplinary approaches to the topic, drawing for example on anthropology, cognitive approaches to literature, game studies or philosophy, are welcome but not required.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/261643/doctoral-research-fellowships-3-within-erc-research-project-jeux

Requirements

Research Field

Literature

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages

Country

Norway

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/261643/doctoral-research-fellows…

Contact

City

Oslo

Website

https://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/english/

Street

PO box 1072 Blindern

Postal Code

NO-0316

E-Mail

[email protected]
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STATUS: EXPIRED