Doctoral Candidate 3 – EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective

HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN.01 EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective project is looking for Doctoral Candidates to participate in the project. Currently one position is open with the University of Bologna for DC to do research and write a thesis on “Narratives of connections and complicities in women’s transnational minor literary genres” (WP3).

The aim of “EUTERPE: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective” is to offer an innovative approach to rethinking European cultural production in the light of complex social and political negotiations that are shaping European spaces and identities at present. EUTERPE intends to do that by bringing together gender and transnational perspectives within an interdisciplinary approach to literary and cultural studies. EUTERPE proposes to train and supervise 11 DCs in interdisciplinary, transnational, gender focused literary studies.

The EUTERPE project will recruit, employ and provide advanced training for 11 Doctoral Candidates who will research European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective across four main areas that form the core of our eight research and training Work Packages, and are focused as follows:

1. Transnational women’s literature and its travels: points of entry and pathways (WP 1, WP2);

2. Translational genres: crossing borders in gender, form, space, and identity (WP 3, WP4, WP 10);

3. Transnational women intellectuals, multilingualism and decolonising European pedagogies (WP 5, WP6, WP 11);

4. Transnational literature and cultural production: intermediality as a form of translation (WP7, WP8).

Major impact objectives of the project will be to produce 11 PhD theses; an open source Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe with key concepts and bio-bibliographic entries on leading representatives of the field; and a Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library, which will make accessible all relevant material collected during the creation of the Dictionary.

As a part of their research training, the EUTERPE DC will have the following duties:

• Enroll as a PhD student in the PhD program with the University of Bologna; fulfill all the requirements of the program and work towards the completion of their PhD thesis within the deadline set by the university.
• Spend a compulsory secondment period of 6 months at the University of York (UK) during the second year of their tenure. During this period they will receive further research training and will conduct comparative research.
• Undertake two months of guided internship with an EUTERPE Associate Partner that works on a field relevant to the Doctoral Candidate's expertise.
• Work closely with their employability mentor in the development of a bespoke Employability Enhancement Plan.
• Attend the project-wide training events, including 5 education events in the form of summer and spring schools.
• .Participate in the creation of the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, an open-source publication by CEU Press by researching material for the Dictionary and contribute to writing the entries.
• Collectively with the other Doctoral Candidates participate in the EUTERPE Transnational Literary Research Laboratory creating the content of the Dictionary/Catalogue/Podcast Library following the Doctoral Candidate’s chosen track of contribution.
• Participate in the EUTERPE Final conference and promotion of the Dictionary of Transnational Women’s Literature in Europe, the Digital Catalogue and Podcast Library in Vienna in the fall of 2026.
• Contribute to the final project report in the summer of 2026.