Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, OXFORD

Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
 
Applications are invited for two Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at St John's College Research Centre in Oxford University. The successful applicants will participate in a three-year project "The Balzan Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Literature as an Object of Knowledge", directed by Professor Terence Cave.  The Fellowships are available for a fixed term of three years, since they are funded by a specific grant.
 
Candidates must recently have completed a doctorate in an area relevant to the project. They will be expected to propose and carry out, during the tenure of the Fellowship, an individual programme of research leading to a monograph (or research publications of equivalent length) in one of the following areas: (i) historical approaches to literature as an object, vehicle and instrument of knowledge; (ii) cognitive approaches to literature. Applications are welcomed not only from candidates in literary studies but also from candidates in philosophy, cognitive psychology or one of the branches of cognitive linguistics, provided that their work engages centrally with questions raised by the project.
 
The stipend will be on a scale of £28,983 - £30,747 per annum. Additional allowances are available. Further particulars, including information about how to apply, may be obtained from the Academic Administrator, St John’s College, Oxford, OX1 3JD. (email: college.office@sjc.ox.ac.uk), or they may be viewed on the College’s web site:http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk.  Applications must arrive in College on or before 12th March 2010.  Applications received after this date will not be considered.
 
St John’s College is an equal opportunities employer.
 
 
Gregory Currie
Department of Philosophy
University of Nottingham
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(44) (0)115 951 5841
 
Narratives and Narrators:
A Philosophy of Stories
Available now through all good bookshops, or direct from Oxford University Press at:
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For AHRC project "Aesthetics and the sciences", see
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/aesthetics/index.html