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Full Professor in French and Francophone Literatures

23 Dec 2023

Job Information

Organisation/Company
Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters
Department
Romance Languages
Research Field
Literature » European literature
Researcher Profile
Leading Researcher (R4)
Country
Romania
Application Deadline
Type of Contract
Permanent
Job Status
Full-time
Hours Per Week
9
Offer Starting Date
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
Not funded by an EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
No

Offer Description

The position answers the need for a leading teacher and researcher in modern and contemporary French and Francophone literatures, who cand direct PhD thesis, with a high scientific and cultural profile who would make studies of French and Francophone literature more visible and attractive. The position includes courses (LMF1216 Gender Studies, LMF2101 French Literature – The contemporary French Novel, LMF2103 European Francophone Literatures: Romanian Literature in French, LMF2213 Seminar (Elaboration of the Dissertation and Ethics of Research), LLF5224 The 20th Century French Theatre), an intense research activity in the field of French and Francophone literatures of the modern and contemporary period (this includes the publication of articles and volumes, the participation in national and international conferences, and directing and participanting in research grants), supervising PhD theses, MA and BA dissertations, participation in PhD, habilitation, and hiring committees, in MA/PhD vivas, in other assessment activities, counselling students.

Requirements

Research Field
Literature » European literature
Education Level
PhD or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications

The candidate should hold a PhD in Philology (French), and should be habilitated to direct PhD research. He/she should have a rich teaching experience, and should have led substantial research in the field of French and Francophone literatures of the modern and contemporary period with relevant, high-standard publications in agreement with the field of expertise stipulated for the advertised position.

The candidate must have the proved ability to lead and to attract research projects and grants, to organise international scientific conferences, to publish in leading international periodicals, and to establish international contacts and cooperation partnerships.

The candidate should meet all requirements stipulated by the research standards of Babeș-Bolyai University and should be able to attest his/her proficiency in French for teaching at BA and MA levels, with relevant documents and academic teaching experience.

Languages
FRENCH
Level
Excellent
Research Field
Literature » European literature
Years of Research Experience
More than 10

Additional Information

Selection process

The competition consists in:

1 – Assessment of the applicants’ CVs and publication lists, which will make up 75% of the final grade. Assessment of the candidates’ research activity will take into consideration both the quality of the publications in relation to the requirements of the field covered by the position’s teaching load, and the concordance between the publications’ topics and the position’s field of expertise. The examining board will consider the applicants’ professional experience in each field of activity included in the position: teaching, research, as well as the applicants’ participation in research grants and research programs, administration and institutional organization.

2 – Open lecture on a theme chosen by the candidates from the range of topics published in the call for applications; the lecture will make up 25% of the final grade. The lecture will be held in French, on the 30th of January 2024, at 10am for the first candidate, then 11am for the second candidate, etc. (in alphabetical order), in Room Auger, Wing A, 1st floor, of the Faculty of Letters, Horea Str. 31, 400202 Cluj-Napoca. Each candidate will give an open lecture of 30 minutes on a subject relevant for the advertised position, chosen by the candidate from the pre-established themes. The lecture will be followed by questions addressed by the members of the examiner board and the audience.

Themes for the public lecture:

  • French Literature – The contemporary French Novel

- Problems of intertextuality in the French and Francophone literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

- Writing the self („le récit de filiation” ; „le travail du deuil”).

- The condition of the artist, from consummerism to the creative process.

Bibliography:

Anzieu, Didier Le corps de l’œuvre. Essai psychanalytique sur le travail créateur, Gallimard,1981.

Genette, Gérard, Palimpsestes. La littérature au second degré, Seuil, 1982.

Hanus, Michel, Les deuils dans la vie. Deuils et séparations chez l’adulte et chez l’enfant (1994), Éditions Maloine, 2003.

Labouret, Denis, Histoire de la littérature française des XXe et XXIe siècles, A. Colin, 2018. 

Lejeune, Philippe, Le pacte autobiographique, Seuil, 1975.

Lipovetsky Gilles, Charles Sébastien, Les Temps hypermodernes, Grasset, 2004. 

Schützenberger, Anne Ancelin, Aïe, mes aïeux ! (1993), Éditions la Méridienne/Desclée de Brouwer, 2015.

Viart, Dominique, « Comment nommer la littérature contemporaine ? » sur Fabula.org., en ligne le 6.12.2019.

  • The 20th Century French Theatre

- Redefining tragic in the 20th century

- The theatre of the absurd

Bibliography:

Couprie, Alain, Lire la tragédie, Dunod, 1994.

Dejean, Jean-Luc, Le Théâtre français depuis 1945, Nathan, 1987.

Genette, Gérard, Palimpsestes. La littérature au second degré, Seuil, 1982.

Jacquart, Emmanuel, Le Théâtre de dérision : Beckett, Ionesco, Adamov (1974), Paris, Gallimard, 1998.

  • European Francophone Literatures: Romanian Literature in French

- Portraits of Romanian writers, between exile and emmigration

- Matei Vișniec : a French speaking Romanian writer

Bibliography:

Gancevici, Olga, Matei Vișniec – Parole et image, Casa cărții de știință, 2012.

Perișanu, Mariana, Francophonie littéraire roumaine, Mini-glossaire et convergences, Bucureşti, ed. ASE, 2011.

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Work Location(s)

Number of offers available
1
Company/Institute
Facultatea de Litere, Departamentul de Limbi și Literaturi Romanice
Country
Romania
State/Province
Cluj
City
Cluj-Napoca
Geofield

Contact

State/Province
Cluj
City
Cluj-Napoca
Website
Street
Horea 31
Postal Code
400202
E-Mail
cristiana.papahagi@ubbcluj.ro