Candidates applying for a job in the project should take into account the timetable presented below, and treat all of the deadlines as binding.
It is not a comprehensive timetable of the project, but just the selection of points that are important for job candidates.
The goal of the whole team is to study parallel histories of litanic verse in different European regions from Middle Ages to the 1930s. The results of these studies will be published in a series of academic books that will constitute the monographic series of the project. Yet the timetable is different for the full-time researchers and for the contract-based researchers. The only common point is the workshop planned in the first half of 2015. At every point mentioned in the timetable the researchers will be requested to present the texts required by the timetable. The texts will need to be written in Polish or in English, while English will be evaluated slightly higher.
Researchers working under the contract for the specific work
Researchers working under the contract for the specific work will need to accomplish at least one research task concerning the history of litanic verse, which ought to be analysed either in a given language in the light of literary studies, or from the point of view of a different discipline (in relation to one of the contextual factors). The results will need to be presented in the form of at least one article. The works will proceed in the following order:
1. First half of 2015 ― presentation of the results of research in the form of a conference paper at the academic workshop.
2. 30 June 2015 ― submission of an academic paper that will be an improved version of the conference paper.
3. First half of 2016 ― publication of a collective monograph devoted to the presence of litanic form in the cultures of European regions, consisting of the articles written by the researchers from the project.
Full-time researchers
Full-time researchers will be requested to accomplish research tasks concerning the history of litanic verse in at least one European region. Their research projects will need to take into account such aspects as the interrelations between the evolution of litanic pattern and verse history, the structure of repetitions, the range of rhythmical elements, their connections with religion and its contexts, etc. The results of the research will have to be presented in the form of a monograph. Depending on the regions selected for research, it might be either one larger monograph or two smaller ones. The length of the whole text will oscillate between 80,000 and 135,000 words. Its precise size will be determined by the project leader when the competition procedure is finished. Full-time researchers will also be obliged to prepare articles for journal publication.
Working on the monograph will proceed in the following order:
1. Until 31 December 2014 a fragment of the monograph needs to be presented. Its size will be specified by the project leader, but it will oscillate between 12,000 and 25,000 words. This part of the monograph will be concerned with a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the end of the first large period (e.g. Middle Ages). The starting and ending points will be determined according to the candidate’s proposal submitted in the application procedure.
2. During the academic workshop (first half of 2015) one needs to give a conference talk in which the results of the research undertaken will be presented (the form of the talk is to be settled with the project leader).
3. Until 31 July 2015 a fragment of the monograph needs to be presented. Its size will be specified by the project leader, but it will oscillate between 25,000 and 50,000 words. This part of the monograph will be concerned with a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the end of the second large period (e.g. to the end of 17th century). The starting and ending points will be determined according to the candidate’s proposal submitted in the application procedure.
4. Until 29 February 2016 a fragment of the monograph needs to be presented. Its size will be specified by the project leader, but it will oscillate between 45,000 and 80,000 words. This part of the monograph will be concerned with a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the end of the third large period (e.g. to the end of Enlightenment). The starting and ending points will be determined according to the candidate’s proposal submitted in the application procedure.
5. Until 30 June 2016 a fragment of the monograph needs to be presented. Its size will be specified by the project leader, but it will oscillate between 65,000 and 110,000 words. This part of the monograph will be concerned with a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the third quarter of the 19th century, that is the beginnings of Modernism.
The end of the first stage of works is planned in August 2016. It will allow the National Science Centre of Poland to decide if the project should further be supported. The evaluation will take into account both published and written texts of the monograph prepared by the members of the team, as well as the articles published in or submitted to journals, written by the project leader and the full-time researchers. If the NSC decides to continue supporting the project since 1 September 2016, the next points of the timetable will be as follows:
6. Until 30 June 2017 the whole and complete text of the monograph needs to be submitted. Its size will be specified by the project leader, but it will oscillate around 80,000 and 135,000 words. The monograph will be devoted to a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the 1930s, that is the moment when a given region became engaged in the second world war or in the preceding political events.
7. First half of 2018 – publication of the full-time researchers’ monographs that will present the results of the research on the history of a regional variant of litanic verse from the beginnings of a given literature to the 1930s.
8. First half of 2018 – publication of the project leader’s monograph, which will be an attempt at a comparative systematisation of the results of the team, and at finding general mechanisms of the history of literature in Europe, which are revealed in the evolution of litanic verse.