6 PhD Positions, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich, Germany (2016-2017)

The DFG-Research Training Group Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions established at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany), invites applications for 6 PhD Student Positions (65%, German TV-L scale 13) starting October 1, 2016 for up three years, on the condition of a positive evaluation after 1,5 years. Remuneration is based on the E 13 salary bracket of the German Public Service Salary Scheme (TV-L). Additional funding for travel is also available.

The Research Training Group funded by the German Research Council (DFG) sets out to examine the function of literature in processes of globalization from a broad historical perspective, ranging from antiquity to the present day. The research interests focus on the ways in which literature both creates and results from the cultural, economic, and political dynamics collectively described as globalization: the ways in which literature creates ‘worlds’ as well as the formation of ‘World Literature’.

Researchers work in close consultation with a group of supervisors whose fields of competence include literature written in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and other languages. The study program, including critical theory and theories of globalization, is designed to provide a forum for intense exchange between fellows, professors, and visiting scholars from the fields of literary studies and social studies.

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