University of Oxford – Faculty of English Language and Literature
Departmental Lecturer in English Literature

Location: Oxford
Salary: £39,324 p.a.
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract

The Faculty of English Langauge and Literature, in association with Lincoln College, is seeking to appoint a Departmental Lecturer. This is a 12-month fixed-term research and teaching appointment in English Literature, with a core focus on the early modern period. The purpose of the post is to cover both the College and Faculty teaching and associated duties of Professor Peter McCullough, who will be taking up a BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship. It is anticipated that the appointee will take up the post on 1 October 2017.

The postholder will be expected to provide 8 hours of undergraduate tutorial teaching per week for Lincoln College, and up to 16 hours of Faculty lectures or classes per year. The main focus of the Departmental Lecturer’s Faculty teaching responsibilities will be undergraduate lecturing on early modern literature, providing teaching for the MSt course (1550-1700 strand), and class teaching for FHS Paper 6 (Special Options). They will also undertake dissertation supervision, examining, and the normal duties of a college tutor, including admissions. The postholder will also undertake advanced study and research in early modern English literature.

The successful candidate should have a strong research and publication record in early modern English Literature, and must possess a doctorate in an appropriate area. S/he must also have experience of undergraduate teaching.

Further particulars (which all applicants must consult) are available below.

Applications, which should include a CV and supporting statement, should be made online by 12.00 noon on Friday 16 June, 2017. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be asked to submit a sample of written work in advance of the interviews, and will be requested to give a short presentation as part of the assessment process. Two references will be sought for shortlisted candidates.

For full information and to apply, please visit: https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=128862.

Forrest Research Fellowships at The University of Western Australia

Forrest Research Fellowships are open to outstanding early career researchers to undertake high quality research at any of the five universities in Western Australia

Forrest Fellows are outstanding researchers of exceptional ability and resourcefulness, having the highest calibre of academic achievements and with the potential to make a difference in the world. Forrest Fellows will help drive research and innovation capacity in Western Australia.

Forrest Fellows will reside in Forrest Hall and provide valuable mentoring Forrest Scholars and provide leadership to the Forrest Research Foundation.

Applications for the inaugural Forrest Fellowships open 10 April, 2017 and close midnight 30 June, 2017.

More info: http://www.forrestresearch.org.au/apply/forrest-fellows

The University of Nottingham
Assistant Professor in Seventeenth-Century Literature and Drama

Job Type: Research & Teaching
Department: English
Salary: £34956 to £46924 per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

The School of English is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Seventeenth-Century Literature and Drama. The successful candidate appointed will teach across the fields of early modern literature and drama within the School of English and will contribute more widely to the School’s teaching and research activities on both its UK and international campuses.

The person appointed will contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching on core and optional team-taught first, second, and final-year modules. These modules may include ‘Studying Literature’ and ‘Drama, Theatre, Performance’ for first-year students, second-year modules on early modern literature and drama, and the third-year module ‘Reformation and Revolution: 1550-1688’. Postgraduate teaching responsibilities will include contributions to live and distance-learning MA programmes. They will also be expected to participate fully in the research culture of the School through high-quality publications, research income generation, outreach activities and the recruitment of postgraduate research students. Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) in early modern literature or drama.

This is a full time permanent post from 1 September 2017 based in the School of English, Trent Building, University Park.

Long-listed candidates will be asked to provide items of research if available for consideration by the School. The interview process will include a presentation of teaching, research and a formal interview.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/ARTS151917.

Closing Date: Thursday, 15 June, 2017.

Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Literature

Location: Dublin
Salary: €33,540 to €47,615
£28,807.51 to £40,896.52 converted salary* per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent

The School seeks a scholar with a PhD and a strong research background in any area of Early Modern Literature. A research interest in postcolonial /transnational perspectives may be an advantage. The successful candidate will be expected to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level; to supervise PhD candidates; and to contribute to the research culture of the School of English.

Applications close 9 June, 2017.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBL446/assistant-professor-in-early-modern-literature.

University of York
Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern Literature

Hours of work: Full-time
Contract status: Open
Salary: £38,183 a year

The Department of English and Related Literature seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Renaissance and Early Modern Literature (within the range c. 1530-1680). Within this broad field, we have no methodological or geographical preference: our primary criteria are excellence in teaching and research, and a willingness to contribute to the University of York’s leading interdisciplinary profile.

You will have a strong commitment to teaching excellence; leading lectures, seminars, tutorials and other forms of graduate and postgraduate teaching. You will contribute to, or otherwise complement, our existing research strengths in this area, which include early modern literature and religion, history of the book, classical reception, Renaissance drama, early modern natural philosophy, and the history of emotions. You will also be developing an outstanding research record by undertaking high-quality, innovative research and seeking to publish in leading venues.

A PhD in English (any period) or related area is essential, together with an appropriate academic teaching qualification or a willingness to complete the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. You must have extensive knowledge of a research field and be able to use a range of teaching techniques and methodologies. Evidence of a research profile and publishing of articles and papers in academic journals is required.

The post is full-time and available from 1 September 2017.

For full information and to apply, please visit: https://jobs.york.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=3885&p_web_page_id=315013.

Applications close on 14 June, 2017.

The Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, under the direction of Ute Frevert, seeks applicants for:

3 Researcher positions (m/f)
(EG 13 TVöD, full time, 39 hrs/week)

The positions will be available from 1 August 2017 initially for two years (until 31 July 2019).

Requirements

Applicants should hold a PhD in history or a relevant field, and be fluent in English.

Their projects should be relevant to the research interests of the Center for the History of Emotions, ideally focusing on religion and emotions in modern history, although other research areas will also be considered.

The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals.

Furthermore the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are under-represented and therefore particularly encourages women to apply.

Please send your application documents (CV including list of publications and a project proposal) by 31 May, 2017 to the:

Center for the History of Emotions Secretariat: sekfrevert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de.

University of Queensland
Lecturer in Communication and Digital Media
School of Communication and Arts

Full-time, continuing teaching and research appointment with a focus on research in communication and digital media, and teaching in digital media including multi-media production and digital media practice.

For full details, and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/500597/lecturer-in-communication-and-digital-media.

Applications close 12 June, 2017.

The Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) research group at Newcastle University (http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems) invites expressions of interest from eligible researchers seeking to apply to the Individual Fellowships scheme of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for a European fellowship. These fellowships last 12-24 months and have a research project as their focus, with a strong element of advanced training both in the research area and in transferable skills

Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Newcastle is an interdisciplinary research group. Its members work between the early medieval to the early modern periods, and belong to the disciplines of Literature, Archaeology, History, Classics and Music. Recent projects which exemplify the group’s strengths include the Tudor Partbooks Project (www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk); The Thomas Nashe Project (https://research.ncl.ac.uk/thethomasnasheproject) and Cultural Heritage through Time (http://cht2-project.eu).

Past Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship projects include RESTOMO and RES.CO.PART (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/research/projects). Our most recent Fellowship award (beginning September 2017), entitled ‘Sacred Landscapes in Late Byzantium’.

We warmly encourage applications from outstanding scholars eager to work in an interdisciplinary environment for the Individual Fellowship Scheme. Applicants must have a track record – appropriate to career stage – of peer-reviewed publication(s) in internationally recognised outlets.

We specifically welcome applications in three key areas:

Scholarly Editing: MEMS has wide-ranging and world-leading expertise in editing early modern prose, poetry, drama and music. We invite candidates who are developing or conducting scholarly editing projects in medieval or early modern texts (up to c. 1800). Projects that enhance our existing expertise in digital applications and methodologies are of particular interest.

Landscapes: MEMS has significant strengths in the investigation of landscapes as historic, acoustic, ceremonial, social and architectural space. We invite candidates wishing to pursue projects involving one or more of the following: the investigation and analysis of historic landscapes; the development of digital tools (which facilitate scholarly investigation of and public engagement with historic landscapes and buildings); multidisciplinary approaches to understanding historic landscapes; or landscape-based approaches to medieval and early modern cultural heritage.

Voices and Books: MEMS is home to cutting-edge research in literature and music dedicated to exploring the life of text off the page. We invite candidates who are developing or conducting research projects that seek to expand the evidence base of the material history of reading, to explore the sound worlds of early modern books, or the implications of recovering ‘voice’ for the development of literary studies/musicology today.

Eligibility

Please see the website: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/mems/mariesklodowska-curiefellowships.

Expressions of Interest

Expressions of interest should be sent to ruth.connolly@ncl.ac.uk and magnus.williamson@ncl.ac.uk by 1 June, 2017. Please submit:

1. A copy of your CV that is a maximum of five (5) pages.
2. A two (2) page outline of the proposed project which identifies a proposed supervisor from the MEMS membership. (You should contact that supervisor before sending in your Expression of Interest).

These should be sent as PDFs with file names indicating your surname, first name initial, and document (e.g. kingbCV; kingbPROPOSAL).

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBJ445/marie-sklodowska-curie-fellowship-in-medieval-and-early-modern-studies.

University of Melbourne
Professor in Screen Studies

Work type: Continuing
Location: Parkville
Salary: $187,654 p.a. plus 17% superannuation

The School of Culture and Communication is a thriving research hub for critical thinking in the humanities. This agenda is led by world-leading scholars whose fields of research include literary and cultural studies, art history, cinema and performance, media and communication and Australian Indigenous studies. The School is also host to a range of funded research concentrations, such as the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the Australian Centre, the Centre for Advancing Journalism, the Research Unit in Public Cultures and the Transformative Technologies Research Unit. More broadly, our academics publish, speak and blog on topics as diverse as romanticism, poetry, Asian popular culture, digital media, climate change, network societies, gender and sexuality, racism, cosmopolitanism, and contemporary arts.

The Professor of Screen Studies will be expected to make major contributions in the areas of research, academic leadership, administration and professional development, and teaching excellence at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including RHD supervision.The appointee will have an established research specialisation in an aspect of Screen Studies, and potential to achieve a high level of research performance through refereed publications and the securing of research grants. A principal duty of the successful appointee will be to foster interdisciplinary activities and engagement activities connected to the discipline.

For full information and to apply, please visit: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/890703/professor-in-screen-studies

Applications close: 20 June, 2017.

Four Research Fellowships in Legal History are available at the University of St Andrews to work with Professor John Hudson on the ERC Advance Grant funded project ‘Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries’. Three are medieval, concerning England, France, and Italy, whilst the fourth is concerned with the eighteenth to twentieth centuries.

Applications for all four Fellowships close on 1 June, 2017.

• Research Fellow in Mediaeval Legal History (Italy): http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBD126/research-fellow-in-mediaeval-legal-history-italy-ar1945sb
• Research Fellowship in Legal History: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBD054/research-fellowship-in-legal-history
• Research Fellow in Mediaeval Legal History (England): http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBD178/research-fellow-in-mediaeval-legal-history-england-ar1944ac
• Research Fellow in Mediaeval Legal History (France): http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BBD219/research-fellow-in-mediaeval-legal-history-france-ar1946sb