[ecrea] Post-doc - Factual and Fictional Narration

Application call for postdoc position

The Graduate School

„Factual and Fictional Narration - Narratological Perspectives on their Differentiation, Interfacings and Correspondences”

(funded by the German Research Foundation) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany)
offers:

One Postdoc Position



The position starts on the 1st of October of 2014.
Remuneration follows the DFG rates of TV-L E13, 100%.


Summary

The Graduate School (GS) „Factual and Fictional Narration“ focuses on nonfictional narratives as well as on the interplay of factuality and fictionality in a wide range of texts and (audio-) visual or material media. Although factual narrative cannot be easily defined, we preliminarily take as our starting point narratives that for their addressees have a direct pragmatic reference to real-world situations. The research conducted in this GS aims at extending narratological methodology to areas beyond the classical applications of literary narrative theory, and at the same time wants to profit from narrative analyses that have been successfully developed in other humanities disciplines as well as in fields like psychology, economics, legal studies and theology.
	In dealing with discourses of factuality, the GS will to start with focus on the peculiarities of factual narratives and narration, establishing possible differences and similarities between factual and fictional narratives. In a second move, the interface zones, mergings and overlaps, interbraidings and hybrid constellations between factual and fictional elements in narrative texts and narratives in the performance mode will be analysed. These questions need to be examined on the basis of a broad range of genres, text types and diverse media, taking account of functional and formal aspects as well as their pragmatic contexts of use.
	The postdoc will work on her or his project within the thematical frame of the GS. This project can be part of a planned or already existing “Habilitationsprojekt”, but also a different topic thematically linked to the GS. An excellent knowledge of German is required since discussions in the graduate school with its members from different disciplines are mostly conducted in German.	

The following criteria are significant in the evaluation process:
– above average grades, especially concerning the thesis
– outstanding presentation of the project in the proposal
– proof of scholarly competence through letters of recommendation
– persuasive self-presentation during the interview session


Further information about the GS can be found online (www.grk-erzaehlen.uni-freiburg.de).

1. Application documents are to be addressed to the director of the GS Professor Monika Fludernik. The application deadline is the 20.4.2014. The application must contain the following materials: a cover letter; a research proposal (eight pages maximum not smaller than Arial 11 point including a work plan and time schedule; in German or English); signed CV, copies of earned university degrees and transcripts and two letters of recommendation by professors of your choice.

2. The application materials have to be sent both by snail-mail to the address under 3. and additionally in digital form to the following e-mail address (all in one pdf document, except the letters of recommendation, e-mail subject: GS „Factual and Fictional Narration“):(sebastian.finger /at/ anglistik.uni-freiburg.de).

3. Professors should send the letters of recommendation (tosekretariat.fludernik /at/ uni-freiburg.de)  via e-mail (as scan) or by mail to:

Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik
Englisches Seminar
Kollegiengebäude IV
Rempartstr. 15
79085 Freiburg
Germany



Dr. Paul Cobley
Professor in Language and Media
School of Media and Performing Arts
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
London
NW4 4BT
United Kingdom



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