Stillingstittel:
Doctoral research fellowships in literary studies (2016/1877)

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.Doctoral research fellowships in literary studies with an emphasis on digital methodologies - two positions

Two Ph.D. research fellowships in the project “Data-Mining the Digital Bookshelf,” which is funded by the Research Council of Norway, are now available at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN), University of Oslo.

“Data-mining the digital bookshelf” is the first systematic attempt to utilize data-mining methods on a large scale within humanities research in Norway, applying these methods to discourses of race, class, religion and gender. In cooperation with the Norwegian National Library, which has digitized virtually all published texts from the nineteenth century in an interface called Bokhylla (“the bookshelf”), we aim to explore how literary culture informs and to a certain extent determines public discourse more broadly, and conversely how public discourse can shape literary culture. The project is divided into two main work packages, “Minority Discourses” and “Popular Discourses” each work package will include one of the two doctoral research fellowships, described below:

One Ph.D. fellowship position in “Popular Discourses,” focusing on gender:The projectshould apply text-mining methodologies to the Bokhylla corpus to examine nineteenth-century gender discourses relating to non-dominant gender constructs. Applicants may choose for example to focus on popular non-literary genres, popular but marginal literary genres such as melodrama, or on the popular reception of women or queer writers. One approach might be to trace the discursive shifts regarding the “place” of women in Norwegian society, leading up to suffrage in 1913; looking beyond Nora’s slamming door in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, where and how was the “woman question” actually debated and defined?

One Ph.D. fellowship position in “Minority Discourses,” focusing on racism:The project should apply text-mining methodologies to the Bokhylla corpus to examine nineteenth-century racial discourses relating to one or more of Norway’s five national ethnic minority groups, or the Sámi. Applicants may choose for example to focus on canonical literary works or non-literary texts, or on writers who themselves were ethnic minorities. The primary objective will be to trace the discursive shifts regarding the construction of “race” as a conceptual category in Norwegian society.

The selected doctoral fellows will be required to participate in the researcher training program of the Faculty of Humanities and complete a Ph.D. dissertation that is commensurate with the University of Oslo’s requirements for the degree (see the regulations for the Faculty of Humanities’ researcher training program). The doctoral fellows are expected to engage in designated research activities on a 100 percent basis, including active participation in the main project’s broader research activities. The primary aim of the fellowships is to complete a doctoral dissertation to be defended at a public defense for the Ph.D. degree.

The appointments are for three years.

Requirements

• A master's degree in a relevant humanities or social sciences field that offers a solid foundation for further research into nineteenth-century textual culture. The applicant is required to document that the degree matches the profile for the post. The final degree must be confirmed by the time of appointment.
• Personal suitability and motivation for the position
• Proficiency in a Scandinavian language and English, both at an adv
  
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  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Department of Ling
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
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  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
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