Postdoctoral Research Fellow -Climate Change & Contemporary Literature - University of Exeter

Description: 

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Climate Change and Contemporary Literature and Culture 
School of Arts, Languages and Literatures 
(Ref. N1872)  
Salary circa: £25,000 pa depending on qualifications & experience 
 
This post is available on a fixed term basis for three years and will be based at Tremough Campus, Cornwall. 
 
We are seeking to recruit a post-doctoral appointment to work collaboratively on an ESF funded project entitled “From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future”. This is an interdisciplinary research project between scholars in Biosciences, Geography and English, concerned with the predicting the effects of climate change on specific localities and engaging people with the debate about the desirability of these changes, in particular on the iconic habitats and landscapes that contribute to sense of place. 
 
Post-doctoral appointments will be made respectively in the disciplines of Biosciences, Geography, and English, but will work collaboratively across the interdisciplinary team. 
 
The literary aspect of this project involves an analysis of the ways in which climate change has been imagined in contemporary literary and other cultural texts, and how the reception of cultural constructions of climate change relates to community responses to the issue at large. It aims first to provide the project with a detailed understanding of the place of climate change in contemporary culture and literature, and then to explore this within the context of how individuals and communities react to modelled climate change in familiar landscapes. 
 
Working closely with his/her project supervisor in English, the post-holder will co-author a monograph on climate change and contemporary literature and culture. S/he will also work as part of the project team to achieve the research objectives of the project as a whole. 
 
The successful applicant will have a PhD in English or a related discipline, specialising in contemporary literature or cultural studies, and would ideally have an interest in the relationship between literature and the environment. S/he will have a strong ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team, showing clear understanding of the wider, multidisciplinary implications of his/her research. 
 
For further information on the literary aspect of CLIF, please contact Dr. Adeline Johns-Putra, email: a.g.johns-putra@exeter.ac.uk or call: 01326 371898. 
 
To apply, applicants should send a CV plus three referees to C.H.Guy@exeter.ac.uk, quoting the job reference N1872. 
 
Closing date: 12 Noon, Friday 5 December 2008 
 
The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity in its workforce and, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, is particularly keen to consider applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce. 

Closing Date: 

Dec 05, 2008

Salary: 

c.£25,000 pa

Area: 

Tremough Campus, Cornwall

Website URL: 

http://www.exeter.ac.uk

Company Email: 

C.H.Guy@exeter.ac.uk