The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, one of six research schools of the Faculty of Humanities, has a vacant PhD position as part of the ERC Consolidator project Imagining the Rural in a Globalizing World/RURALIMAGINATIONS, led by Prof. Esther Peeren.

RURALIMAGINATIONS focuses on the crucial role played by cultural imaginations in determining what aspects of contemporary rural life do and do not become visible nationally and globally, which, in turn, affects how the rural can be mobilized politically.

Read the full project description.

If you are our ideal candidate you have:

• a relevant Master’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences, focusing on contemporary British culture, completed no later than 31 August 2018;

• outstanding research qualities, manifested in strong transcripts and a high-quality Master’s thesis;

• demonstrable experience with the narrative, visual and discursive analysis of film, television and/or literature;

• demonstrable experience working with theoretical frameworks and a keen interest in the three concepts (chronotope, spectrality, affect) central to the project;

• excellent written and spoken English;

• a keen interest in interdisciplinary research methods and approaches;

• the ability and willingness to work in a team;

• the willingness to travel abroad for research stays, conferences and project expert workshops;

• strong organizational skills.

You will be appointed at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Humanities, Department of Language and Literature. The appointment will be for 48 months, full-time, under the terms of employment currently valid for the Faculty. You will be a member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). The first contract will be for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months, contingent on a positive performance evaluation. The intended starting date is 1 January 2019. The gross monthly salary will be €2,222 during the first year to reach €2,840 during the fourth, based on 38 hours per week. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

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Faculty of Humanities

Research at the Faculty of Humanities is carried out by six research schools under the aegis of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research. The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, one of six research schools of the Faculty of Humanities,  is home to more than 110 scholars and 120 PhD candidates, and is a world-leading international research school in Cultural Analysis. ASCA members share a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary framework and to maintaining a close connection with contemporary cultural and political debates.

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