The leader of the project “Litanic Verse in the Culture of European Regions” announces a competition for the realisation of the task: History of litanic verse in the English literature 1837-1939.
The person selected in the competition will be requested to submit the academic paper in English on the above mentioned topic until 30 June 2015. The text should be 35,000 up to 45,000 characters long. Salary information may be obtained via email to the address presented below.
Terms and conditions of the competition
The competition is open to candidates who hold a doctoral degree in the humanities in the fields of literary studies, cultural studies or linguistics.
The competition is also open to doctoral students who prepare their doctoral dissertations in the humanities in the fields of literary studies, cultural studies or linguistics.
The competition is not open to scholars who hold a habilitation degree or an academic title of professor, nor to the candidates whose achievements correspond to the profiles R3 (Established Researcher) or R4 (Leading Researcher), as described on the website Euraxess of the European Commission.
Requirements for the candidates
― academic achievements including texts written in Polish and/or English language in at least one discipline which is important for the research questions of the project; disciplines important for the project are: poetics (especially history or theory of verse, as well as history or theory of literary genres), history of European literature (in particular the history of poetry from the Middle Ages to 1945), history of liturgy (especially the Christian liturgy of the ancient and medieval period), history of European music (especially medieval liturgical music) and history of European folk culture up to the 19th century;
― linguistic skills that allow to study English poetry.
Candidates should submit:
1. Curriculum vitae including information about education, academic career, as well as academic, teaching and organisational achievements;
2. Documents or publications which prove English language skills of the candidate;
3. List of the candidate’s publications from the last five years;
4. Selected publications that are representative of the candidate’s work, published in the last 5 years, altogether consisting of 40,000 up to 120,000 characters (submitting a piece of work in Polish or English is recommended but not mandatory) *.
*) Either an original publication or its copy may be submitted. In the case of the copy one should also submit a copy of the pages that include bibliographical information. Academic achievements may also comprise of unpublished fragments of doctoral dissertation. All texts accepted for publication should be accompanied by a letter from the publisher.
The deadline for submitting documents is:
28 February 2015.
Adress:
For the documents sent by e-mail:
wiersz@uw.edu.pl
(the title of the message: „English litanic verse – competition”)
For the documents sent by post:
ENGLISH LITANIC VERSE — COMPETITION
Instytut Literatury Polskiej
Uniwersytet Warszawski
ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
00-927 Warszawa
POLAND
The competition will be adjudicated until:
7 March 2015.
Description of the project is available on the website:
www.wiersz.uw.edu.pl.
Warsaw, 14 February 2015