Vacancy at UGent: fully-funded PhD Fellowship

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Vacancy at UGent: fully-funded PhD Fellowship

 

Dear colleagues,

The Novel Saints: Ancient Fiction and Hagiography Research Centre at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for a full-time doctoral research fellowship on The Holy Romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography. The project is funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (F.W.O.-Vlaanderen) and will be supervised by Prof Koen De Temmerman and Dr Julie Van Pelt.

The successful applicant will examine literary and rhetorical constructions of character and concepts of narrative and fiction in Lives, martyr acts, and encomia written in Greek between the 5th and the 13th centuries and describing the lives of Christian saints and martyrs of Sicily and Southern Italy.

The successful applicant will start employment no later than 1st October 2022. In order to be eligible, candidates must have obtained their MA degree at the time of application or demonstrate that they will have that degree in hand by the start of their doctoral fellowship.

Further information about how to apply can be found at https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/news/vacancy-fully-funded-phd-fellowship-4-years-ghent-university-belgium.

Best wishes,

Koen De Temmerman and Julie Van Pelt

 

Source : Novel Saints website