Two postdoctoral fellowships (f / m / d)

Two postdoctoral fellowships (f / m / d)

The Classics Department of Heidelberg University is inviting applications for two three-year postdoctoral fellowships (full-time) to commence on December 1, 2024.

Your tasks :

• The postdoctoral fellows will be part of a Leibniz research group on ancient aesthetics under the direction of Jonas Grethlein.
• The group will focus on explicit and implicit aesthetic reflections in a wide range of literary genres and non-textual media from the Archaic age to the Imperial era.
• While all topics in this field are welcome, special interest will be given to projects that explore one of the following three themes :

a) the relation of aesthetics with ethics : inquiries into the ethical dimension of aesthetics and its challenges to the modern ideal of aesthetic autonomy.

b) scale : inquiries into size, length and other measurements that at first glance appear to be simple and objective characteristics of texts and works of art, but upon closer inspection turn out to be highly charged.

c) media : inquiries into the manifold relations between and entanglements of various media of representation such as text, performance, image, sculpture and dance.

We offer :

Applications should include a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample (either an article or a dissertation chapter), an abstract of the research project (2-4 pages) and two letters of reference. Please send the material as a pdf to [email protected] by September 15, 2024 . If you have any questions about the project, please contact [email protected].

Heidelberg University stands for equal opportunities and diversity. Qualified female candidates are especially invited to apply. Persons with severe disabilities will be given preference if they are equally qualified. Information on job advertisements and the collection of personal data is available at www.uni-heidelberg.de / en / job-market.