Here one can find detailed information about which competition to join.
The team is appointed on the basis of a contest. Anyone interested in contributing to the project is invited to read two announcements of the competitions, available under the tab Job Offers:
― Announcement of the competition for two full-time positions of research assistant,
― Announcement of the competition for the realisation of research tasks.
It might also be useful to have a look at the General Timetable of the Project. Expected salaries are presented in the sectionSalaries and Benefits.
Full-time employement
Due to the research aims of the project, full-time positions are in first place offered to the candidates who specialise in historical poetics (especially verse history and genre theory), and who have an experience in studying literature (most of all poetry) from Middle Ages to early Modernism. Qualifications for the study of texts written in languages other than Polish and Modern English will also be needed. Especially useful and highly evaluated will be the knowledge of Italian, as well as French, slightly lower – of German, in the forms of their development from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. The competition is also open to researchers knowing a few different languages (e.g. from the South-Slavic group). An additional asset may be an experience in writing individual academic texts in English, the knowledge of medieval Latin or Old English, as well as a research portfolio in such topics as the history of Christian spirituality, liturgics, liturgical music, folk culture or linguistic prosody.
During the competition procedure the candidates applying for full-time positions will be asked to select a few modules from theTable of Language Modules, and to present a proposal of the study of litanic verse in the poetry from the chosen modules. Since the aim of the project is not the study of national literatures but of the poetry of European regions, it will be necessary to show that poetry from the selected territory can be treated as a poetry of one or at most two European regions. During the interview, candidates will need to explain what common feature in a given case is the criterion for discerning the region. The only aspects that may be taken into account are linguistic affinities of the literatures of a given region or the domination of the same liturgical tradition in the culture of that region. It will also be necessary to present a preliminary concept of the selection of material, as in some regions litanic verse can be found in numerous realisations. Since the aim of the team is to study parallel histories of litanic verse in different European regions, two full-time researchers will not be allowed to study the same region.
For the time of the realisation of the project, full-time researchers will receive notebooks, as well as money for travels (in Poland and abroad) and for the purchase of necessary materials. Full-time researchers will not be obliged to live in Warsaw on a permanent basis.
After the competition, the candidates who will not be employed as full-time researchers will be considered as the candidates for the contract-based jobs (as the group no. 1, described below).
Contract for the specific work
Contract-based-jobs opening is addressed to a much larger group of researchers than the competition for full-time employment. Contract-based research tasks may be offered to the candidates who hold a doctoral degree in humanities, theology, or musicology, as well as to doctoral candidates (PhD students) who specialise in these disciplines. Two groups of candidates will be taken into account:
1. The competition will be open to the researchers who will declare to study litanic verse from at least one module enumerated in the Table of Language Modules. It cannot be the module already ascribed to the full-time researcher. In comparison with the competition for full-time positions, this offer might be attractive to the scholars working on the history of national literatures which had a lesser influence on the evolution of litanic verse in Europe. In contrast with the competition for full-time positions, candidates will not be asked to present proposals of the study of litanic verse in a given region. Instead, after the competition, the project leader will commission the researchers to do specific tasks according to the competences of the scholars.
2. The competition is also open to the researchers who do not specialise in literary studies, but in a different discipline that is important for the project (like the history of Christian spirituality, liturgics, liturgical music, or folk culture). Candidates from this group will not be asked to select a module. Instead, they will be requested to submit a proposal of at least one academic article devoted to the contextual factors that have influenced the evolution of litanic verse. These factors should be of non-verbal or non-literary character.