Deadline for applications: November 15, 2017

The Center for Women’s & Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a focus on Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, to begin Fall 2018.

We are particularly interested in scholars doing intersectional work that engages one or more of the following fields: Gender and Health, Human Rights, Performance Studies, Queer Studies, especially those working in Media Studies and Queer of Color Critique, Critical Race Theory, and Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms.

The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies is strongly committed to diversity and especially welcomes applications from people of African, Asian, Indigenous, and Latinx descent, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who will contribute to our program’s intersectional commitment.

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Deadline for Applications: December 01, 2017

The Mahindra Humanities Center invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of migration and the humanities.

Migration plays as critical a role in the moral imagination of the humanities as it does in shaping the activist vision of humanitarianism and human rights. Too often, the humanities are summoned merely as witnesses to the spectacle of the significant currents and crises of contemporary life. Literature and the arts are viewed as iconic presences whose primary aesthetic and moral values lie in their illustrative powers of empathy and evocation. Yet the intellectual formation of the humanities—their very conception of the nature of meaning, knowledge, and morals—is deeply resonant with the displacement of values and the revision of norms that shape the transitional and translational narratives of migrant lives.

Built around pedagogies of representation and interpretation—textual, visual, digital, political, ethical, ecological, etc.—the humanities engage with the history of shifting relations between cultural expression, historical transition, and political transformation. The ethics of citizenship in our time are defined as much by migration and resettlement as by indigenous belonging, as much by global governance as by national sovereignty. And the humanities play a central role in defining the terms and the territories of cultural citizenship as it creates innovative institutions and identities in the making of a civil society.

The migration “crisis” makes it imperative for humanists to reflect on the foundational concepts and values of our disciplines in addressing the representation of others as they are recognized in the norms of cultural citizenship. The issues the seminar will explore include: the ethics of hospitality; modes of cosmopolitanism; negotiation of cultural “differences” under duress; the role played by interpretation and cultural translation in enhancing processes of social integration.

Applications from scholars in all fields whose work innovatively engages with migration and the humanities are welcome. For 2018-19 proposals that engage with migration, cultural memory, and the archive are of particular interest:

How do we understand the relationship between cultural memory as personal or collective narrative and the institutional demands of the legal discourse of memory used as a protocol of evidence that establishes the migrant’s claim to refuge, asylum and/or citizenship? What is the relationship between the affective aspects of migrant memory, such as fear, anxiety, humiliation, trauma, hope, and wish fulfillment, and the truth conditions encoded in jurisprudence and political rationality?

What are the narrative forms and discursive modes that constitute archives of migration, both contemporary an historical? What are the technologies and politics of these representations? How do archives of migrations function as purveyors of information, systems of classification, conduits of dissemination that create new public knowledge?

Terms and Conditions

In addition to pursuing their own research projects, fellows will be core participants in the bi-weekly seminar meetings. Other participants will include faculty and graduate students from Harvard and other universities in the region, and occasional visiting speakers.

Fellows will be joined at the Center by postdoctoral fellows from Germany, who will be coming as part of a collaboration between the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Volkswagen Foundation. Fellows are expected to be in residence at Harvard for the term of the fellowship.

Fellows will receive stipends of $65,000, individual medical insurance, moving assistance of $1,500, and additional research support of $2,500.

Eligibility and Deadline Information

Applicants for 2018-19 fellowships must have received a doctorate or terminal degree in or after May 2015. Applicants without a doctorate or terminal degree must demonstrate that they will receive a doctorate or terminal degree in a related discipline in or before August 2018.
 Applications must be completed by December 1, 2017.

Deadline for Applications: December 01, 2017

The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. WIGH seeks to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who propose to analyze the interconnections—cultural, economic, ecological, political and demographic—among world societies. Applicants are encouraged from all over the world, and especially from outside Europe and North America, hoping to create a global conversation on global history.

WIGH Fellows are appointed for one academic year and are provided time, guidance, office space, and access to Harvard University facilities. They should be prepared to devote their entire time to productive scholarship and may undertake sustained projects of research or other original work. They will join a vibrant community of global history scholars at Harvard. The WIGH Fellowship is residential and Fellows are expected to live in the Cambridge/Boston area for the duration of their appointments unless traveling for pre-approved research purposes, and they are expected to participate in WIGH activities, including a bi-weekly seminar.

More information on the program, including events, affiliated faculty, and current and former fellows can be found at http://wigh.wcfia.harvard.edu/. Continue reading “Academic Job: WIGH Fellows (Harvard U.)”

Deadline for Applications: November 01, 2017

The A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at UW-Madison is an interdisciplinary program providing postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, it provides two-year postdoctoral fellowships for recent PhD recipients. The program, established in 2010, builds upon interdisciplinary initiatives on campus exploring the broad question, “What is human?” These initiatives have been examining the transnational circulations of culture and power on a global landscape, questions of biocultures and biopolitics, and new ways of thinking about media in the context of the digital revolution.

Each year the A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Program invites applications under a theme related to these initiatives. Themes to date have been World Citizenship (2010-11), Life (2011-12), Media (2012-13), Democracy (2013-14), Religion and Secularism (2014-15), Violences (2015-16), Climates and Natures (2016-18), and Translation, Adaptation, Transplantation(2017-19). The theme for 2018-20 fellowships is Truth, Fact, and Ways of Knowing. Continue reading “Academic Job: A.W. Mellon Postdoc Fellowships (UW-Madison)”

Deadline for Applications: November 1, 2017

The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin – Madison announces an opening for a Lecturer in Russian for 2018-19. This full-time appointment is renewable. The person in this position will be responsible for teaching six (6) courses in the academic year, including the following (or similar) courses: History of Russian Culture (in Russian, for students beyond the fourth-year level), Vladimir Nabokov: Russian and American Writings, third- and fourth-year Russian.

Requirements for position: Ph.D. or equivalent degree in Russian Literature, Slavic Languages & Literatures, or the equivalent, required by the time of application. Native or near-native proficiency in both Russian and English. Previous teaching experience at a North American university, including at least two years of teaching experience in Russian as a foreign language, content courses in Russian beyond the fourth-year level, courses in Russian literature and/or culture in English, and broad expertise in Russian literature and culture. Continue reading “Academic Job: Lecturer in Russian (UW-Madison)”

Deadline for applications: November 1, 2017

Deadline for applications: November 15, 2017

The Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic at the University of Wisconsin – Madison invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Russian literature and culture beginning August 20, 2018. PhD in hand by the start of appointment required. Superior level of proficiency or higher (on ACTFL scale) in Russian and English required. Prior college or university teaching experience required.

We seek a new colleague with an active research agenda and outstanding promise as a scholar and teacher. Priority will be given to applicants with research expertise in Russian nineteenth-century literature and culture. Secondary specialization in the Soviet period or post-Soviet studies is a plus. The successful candidate will be expected to teach graduate-level courses in the nineteenth-century literary tradition (Romanticism and Realism); ability to teach eighteenth-century Russian literature and culture at the graduate level also desirable. At the undergraduate level, the successful candidate will teach across the curriculum, including courses in 19th- through 21st-century Russian literature and culture as well as advanced Russian language. The standard teaching load is four courses each academic year (two courses each semester). Active engagement in research and publication at the national and international levels will be expected.

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Deadline for applications: November 15, 2017

Visiting Assistant Professor Position in Russian Literature and Culture
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Job Summary:

The Department of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington announces a one-year visiting assistant professor position in Russian literature and culture for the 2018–19 academic year, beginning August 1, 2018. The successful candidate should have native or near-native Russian and English and an attractive research agenda. The 2/2 teaching load will include core undergraduate offerings in 19th century Russian literature along with specialized seminars and mentoring at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Deadline for Applications: December 01, 2017

2018-19 Rice Seminar | Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows