Doctoral Positions in RTG 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures“Full PhD

Working Language
German, English
Location
Erlangen
Application Deadline
01 May 2025
Starting Date
01 Oct 2025

Overview

Open Positions

11

Time Span

01 Oct 2025 for 3 years

Application Deadline

01 May 2025

Financing

yes

Type of Position

Full PhD

Working Language
  • German
  • English
Required Degree
  • Magister
  • Magister (Masters degree course)
  • Master
  • State Examination
Areas of study

American Studies, English Studies, Book Science, Communication Studies, Intercultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Culture, Media Studies, European Studies, Latin American Studies, North American Studies, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romance Philology, Miscellaneous, Romance Studies, Spanish, General Literary Studies, Comparative Literary Studies, German as a Foreign Language, German Studies

Description

Description

The research training group 2806 “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, funded by the German Research Foundation, is offering

11 Doctoral Positions (m/f/d) (65%, E-13 TV-L)

for a duration of three years respectively, starting 01.10.2025. Extensions for the doctoral positions (6 months) are possible.

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group (RTG) aims to analyze contemporary literatures since 1945 in different public and cultural contexts. It examines the conditions that enable and influence different literatures in the public sphere, thereby focusing on their cultural specificities, potentials and functions. It uses a broad concept of literature, including the digitalization of society and its consequences, socio-cultural political and economic contexts, (inter-)mediality and media competition, institutional conditions, the literary industry and literary life as objects of enquiry.

The RTG considers literatures from different cultural and language areas, including ‘small literatures’ and minority cultures on different continents. Accordingly, the RTG investigates the interactions between literatures and public spheres in a differentiated manner. Adopting a comparative and transnational perspective, the RTG takes into account digital, praxeological, cultural studies and philological methods and supports research projects from social, media, material, ethical or economic studies.

If your field of study was Digital Humanities, Book Studies, (Cultural) Sociology, Media/Communication Studies, Romance Studies, Comparative Literature, American Studies, English Studies or German Studies and you have a suitable project idea, please apply by May 1, 2025!

For more information on the research program, the respective advisors, and contact information, see: https://www.literaturundoeffentlichkeit.phil.fau.de/en/

If you have any content-related questions, please contact the speakers of the research training group: dirk.niefanger at fau.de and antje.kley at fau.de, for organizational matters please address the coordinators: grk2806-koordination at fau.de.

Requirements:

  • an excellent academic degree in a relevant subject
  • an innovative project idea
  • intercultural competence and an interest in interdisciplinary work
  • proficiency in abstract theoretical thinking
  • methodological competence
  • adequate language skills: B2 German and English, C1 German or English
  • first publications, academic talks, or academic administrative experience (e.g. as a student assistant) are desirable

Documents to submit:

  • cover letter
  • CV
  • research proposal (ca. 8-10 pages)
  • degree certificates (MA, State Exam, or equivalent degree)
  • certificate(s) of language skills (may be submitted within the first year if necessary)
  • work sample (e.g. master thesis)

Please submit your application (English or German) electronically as one single PDF file (plus writing sample in a separate PDF file) to kontakt-grk2806 at fau.de by May 1, 2025.

FAU is a modern, cosmopolitan and family-friendly employer. We welcome your application regardless of your age, gender, cultural and social background, religion, ideology, disability or sexual identity. If you have a severe disability or are equivalent to severely disabled persons, we will give you preferential consideration if your suitability, performance and qualifications are essentially equal.

Required Documents

Required Documents
  • Motivation letter
  • CV
  • Transcripts
  • Certificates
  • List of publications
  • Research expose
  • Language certificate
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