Fellowships & Scholarships
Museums & Galleries Research Award
To foster research on the Renaissance in the museum, archive and library community, the Society for Renaissance Studies is offering a bursary scheme to enable scholars to develop advanced research in the history of art, material culture, museum studies, and related disciplines, related to the making and collecting of works of arts and objects during the Renaissance period (c.1300-1700), now in museums and galleries. This may include research into new methods of interpreting and communicating the Renaissance, and preference may be given to subjects growing out of a current museum project with a cross-disciplinary approach.
- The closing date for receipt of applications is 1 December.
- Individual Awards are offered to provide financial assistance to undertake original research which may inform a publication, exhibition or display. There will be one application deadline per year.
- Applications will be accepted from members of the Society, regardless of whether they hold a full time academic post, and from applicants at all stages of their careers.
a. Applicants can apply for any amount between £200 and £1000. This award is tenable for a maximum of 12 months; it can only be used for one project.
b. The project must be related to objects or works of arts in museums or galleries, or their interpretation.
c. The following expenses can be claimed, and should be detailed in the budget proposal submitted with the application:
- Travel expenses (if they satisfy the aims of the scheme, and if funds allow).
- Accommodation expenses (up to £80 per night) for periods away from home.
- Subsistence allowance for periods away from home (maximum £25 per day, note that alcohol cannot be claimed for).
- Other, including photographic reproduction rights.
- These bursaries cannot be used to pay for replacement staff to cover the absence of bursary recipients.
Please use the application form on the website and give details of the research planned, its importance, and how the sum will be spent. When claiming funding, you should provide a clear and detailed account to the Treasurer of how the money has been spent, together with original receipts.
Enquiries should be made to the museums and galleries officer, Dr Anna Groundwater via the contact form.
To access the application form for this grant, you need to be a member of the Society for Renaissance Studies.
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The Sherry L. Reames Graduate Student Travel Award for Hagiographical Studies
Named in honor of the beloved founder and long-time leader of the Society, the award now provides up to $1000 to be used toward registration, travel, lodging, and meals to present a paper at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, held annually at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. The winners will be granted a free two-year membership in the Hagiography Society.
Eligibility
Students who are Hagiography Society members and enrolled in a graduate program (anywhere in the world) are eligible to apply if their paper, on a topic involving hagiography, has been accepted for inclusion on a regular panel (not a round table or other format) in the program of the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI, at the time of application. They are also expected to attend the annual Hagiography Society Business Meeting held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Application
Please submit an application form, combined with a current curriculum vitæ in a single PDF with your last name in the document name, by November 20 to the Secretary / Treasurer (secretary@hagiographysociety .org) of the Hagiography Society.
- You will find the application form on the Hagiography Society website (hagiographysociety .org) > Awards
Applicants will be informed of the results by December 15.
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts
Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts support the use of any of the UCLA Library Special Collections’ extensive holdings in medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and printed books. Some of these holdings include the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine and Early Italian Printing Collections; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Bourbon del Monte de San Faustino Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts.
The fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to graduate students or postdoctoral scholars who need to use these collections for graduate-level or postdoctoral independent research. Recipients receive a stipend of $3000/month for fellowships lasting up to three months. Please note that housing and office space is not provided.
Application due date: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Please apply at least six months in advance of the preferred date of research in UCLA Library Special Collections.
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1-2 Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SKO 1352) are available in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, at the University of Oslo.
The positions are associated with the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of Principal Investigator Anna Grasskamp, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project.
(1) Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Geographic Resources
Access to waterways allowed local craft communities to engage with resources from far away, while panoramic views inspired visual artists. Artists and artisans across Eurasia have articulated the agency of certain sites over humans, for example in the case of sacred sites where natural miracles were believed to have taken place, while contributing to period conceptualizations and visualizations of land- and seascapes as objects of knowledge. The person filling in this position will investigate the artistic impact on and representation of geographic resources during the early modern period in at least three of the project’s six key sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. His/her methodology will be informed by geoaesthetics, a critical frame to analyze artistic and artisanal practices as shaped by human interaction with resources. Potential case studies include representations of bodies of water, for example Hangzhou’s West Lake or Gujarat’s Bay of Surat; landscape paintings by traveling artists like William Hodges, who accompanied James Cook’s journeys, or those by Ming literati artists who traveled extensively in search of painterly landscapes; geoaesthetics of sacredness in relation to Buddhist sites and Catholic belief systems across Eurasia.
(2) Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Climatic Resources
While climatic resources such as the interplay between hot temperatures and humidity allow for the cultivation of and creative engagement with certain materials, for example enabling sericulture to produce silk, they discourage others. Furthermore, artistic concepts of climatic resources have been articulated through symbolic depictions of the forces of wind, water, and sunlight during the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850) due to cooling and mountain glacier expansion in some (though not all) regions of the world. Asia’s monsoon climate has a profound impact on the region and its life-threatening powers have been depicted in representations of flooding and shipwrecks and in allegorical and symbolic ways. The work of this post-doctoral fellowship project asks how the forces of wind and water during the wet season were conceptualized in art and artisanship across Eurasia; it will study the representation of the harnessing of climatic elements for human purposes across at least three of the project’s six sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. Potential case studies include symbolic representations of the forces of water in paintings and sculptures of dragons across Eurasia; anthropomorphic representations of wind in Indian and Chinese Buddhist imagery of aerial deities; artistic depictions of the impact of the monsoon season on seafaring.
The positions are available for a period of 3.5 years. These are full-time research positions with no additional teaching duties.
The successful candidate(s) is/are expected to become part of the research environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.
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Postdocs
Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities
The Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities program is a unique opportunity for recent PhD recipients in the humanities to develop as scholars and teachers. Up to four fellowships will be awarded for a two-year term (with the possibility of a third year extension). Fellows teach two courses per year in one of Stanford’s humanities departments or interdisciplinary programs, where they will be provided office space and a faculty mentor. Fellows will also be affiliated with the Stanford Humanities Center and will have the opportunity to be active in its programs and workshops. Finally, fellows engage with the other members of their program cohort in weekly meetings, where they share current work and have the opportunity to engage with invited guests on topics of professional and intellectual interest.
Program admissions focus on selected fields of scholarship in each application year (on a rotating basis). We invite applicants to apply for fellowships in fields where their work has demonstrable relevance to teaching and research in the designated Stanford department. For fellowships beginning fall quarter of 2025, applications will be accepted from the following fields of study: African and African American Studies, Art and Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Theater and Performance Studies.
Due: October 15
University of Bergen
Open to PhD grads interested in projects on medieval religious literature. Successful candidates will work under the supervision of Dr Laura Saetveit Miles. Must be a scholar 0-8 years out from PhD working on medieval women, monastic cultures (esp. Syon Abbey), Middle English religious literature, or visionary or mystical texts. 2-3 year fellowship based at UiB with Dr. Laura Saetveit Miles. EU-funded MSCA Fellowships are an excellent (though competitive) opportunity for a well-funded post-doc project. Please contact laura.miles@uib.no to discuss the fellowship call, work to develop a proposal and be ready for the September deadline.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Geographic Resources at the University of Oslo
Access to waterways allowed local craft communities to engage with resources from far away, while panoramic views inspired visual artists. Artists and artisans across Eurasia have articulated the agency of certain sites over humans, for example in the case of sacred sites where natural miracles were believed to have taken place, while contributing to period conceptualizations and visualizations of land- and seascapes as objects of knowledge. The person filling in this position will investigate the artistic impact on and representation of geographic resources during the early modern period in at least three of the project’s six key sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. His/her methodology will be informed by geoaesthetics, a critical frame to analyze artistic and artisanal practices as shaped by human interaction with resources. Potential case studies include representations of bodies of water, for example Hangzhou’s West Lake or Gujarat’s Bay of Surat; landscape paintings by traveling artists like William Hodges, who accompanied James Cook’s journeys, or those by Ming literati artists who traveled extensively in search of painterly landscapes; geoaesthetics of sacredness in relation to Buddhist sites and Catholic belief systems across Eurasia.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Early Modern Art and Climatic Resources at the University of Oslo
While climatic resources such as the interplay between hot temperatures and humidity allow for the cultivation of and creative engagement with certain materials, for example enabling sericulture to produce silk, they discourage others. Furthermore, artistic concepts of climatic resources have been articulated through symbolic depictions of the forces of wind, water, and sunlight during the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850) due to cooling and mountain glacier expansion in some (though not all) regions of the world. Asia’s monsoon climate has a profound impact on the region and its life-threatening powers have been depicted in representations of flooding and shipwrecks and in allegorical and symbolic ways. The work of this post-doctoral fellowship project asks how the forces of wind and water during the wet season were conceptualized in art and artisanship across Eurasia; it will study the representation of the harnessing of climatic elements for human purposes across at least three of the project’s six sites: Gujarat, Manila, Jakarta/Batavia, Yangon (formerly Dagon, and, under colonial rule, Rangoon), Guangzhou/Canton, Amsterdam. Potential case studies include symbolic representations of the forces of water in paintings and sculptures of dragons across Eurasia; anthropomorphic representations of wind in Indian and Chinese Buddhist imagery of aerial deities; artistic depictions of the impact of the monsoon season on seafaring.
The positions are available for a period of 3.5 years. These are full-time research positions with no additional teaching duties.
The successful candidate(s) is/are expected to become part of the research environment/network of the department and contribute to its development. The main purpose of postdoctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.
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Professorships
Asst/ Assoc/Full Professor Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture Department of Span & Port
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley seeks applications for a tenure track or tenured (Assistant / Associate/ Full Professor) position in Early Modern Spanish literatures and cultures. We are particularly interested in candidates whose portfolio shows a strong commitment to interdisciplinarity. We welcome applicants whose research spans a variety of topics, including but not limited to material and visual cultures; poetics and poetry; ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; literature and historiography; Mediterranean studies; Morisco studies; pan-European Early Modern literature.
Expected Start Date: July 1, 2025
Application Due: October 20, 2024
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Faculty Position in Medieval British Literature
The Department of English at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in Medieval British Literature to begin in August 2025. Faculty at the College cultivate a richly diverse academic community, pursue innovative teaching, and create high-impact scholarship. Our new colleague will join a department that balances a longstanding commitment to the study and teaching of literary forms and literary history with an openness to new methods of inquiry in the field. We welcome applications from candidates demonstrating engagement with any of the wide range of interests and methodologies in Medievalist studies, including but not limited to history of the English language, book history, poetry and poetics, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and genre theory. Teaching responsibilities will include courses at all levels of the curriculum, ranging from introductory literature courses for non-majors to upper-division courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. In addition to departmental course offerings, a tenure-track hire in medieval literature will have opportunities to teach in and support the College’s longstanding investment in interdisciplinary studies, including programs such as Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Environmental Studies; Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies; and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies; as well as the College’s first-year Montserrat program. Candidates are encouraged to find out more about our department here: https://www.holycross.edu/academics/programs/english.
Tenure-track Professor in Pre-1600 Japanese Literature and Culture
The Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Pre-1600 Japanese Literature and Culture. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2025. The tenure-track professor will be responsible for teaching and advising at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The ability to teach classical Japanese (bungo) is expected, and proficiency in teaching Japanese literary Sinitic (kanbun) is also welcome.
Basic qualifications: Doctorate or terminal degree in Literature or related discipline required by the time the appointment begins.
Additional qualifications: Demonstrated strong commitment to teaching and advising is desired.
Instructions: Please submit the following materials through the ARIeS portal (https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13953). Candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by October 1, 2024 to ensure full consideration.
Assistant Professor - Queer and Medieval Literature
The Department of English at the State University of New York at Oneonta invites applications for a tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Queer and Medieval Literature beginning Fall 2025. Expectations include, but are not limited to, teaching, research, student advisement, college service, and continuing professional development.
The Department of English currently has ten tenured or tenure-track professors as well as adjuncts and lecturers teaching a diverse array of courses in literature, composition, creative and professional writing, linguistics, and critical theory. We offer both a literature track and a writing track that incorporates professional and creative writing. Our faculty are encouraged to design courses in their areas of specialty and have the opportunity to teach cross-listed courses with Women's and Gender Studies, Africana and Latinx Studies, World Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and other departments. About half of our students are dual-Adolescent Education majors. We offer minors in English, classics, creative writing, and professional writing.
To learn more about the University and the Department, please visit https://suny.oneonta.edu/ and https://suny.oneonta.edu/english
English Assistant Professor - Early Modern
The Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in Anglophone Literature from 1500 to 1700 with an anticipated start date of August 25, 2025. This is a university year appointment. We especially encourage applicants with expertise in additional fields of study, transnational, and theoretical approaches of kinds that will align with the needs of our students and shape the evolution of literary and cultural studies over the next two decades.
We seek candidates who can teach well-known texts in Anglophone literary and cultural history, but who will also expansively reimagine the traditional curriculum to encompass global and comparative approaches, long chronologies, interdisciplinary inquiry, new methods, and unusual genres. We welcome applicants who approach their fields in capacious modes that may be less legible in traditional English or Comparative Literature departments.
Faculty in the English Language and Literature department are expected to produce original research publications, to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, to supervise and mentor graduate students, to contribute to service activities at the department, campus and system-wide levels and to contribute to U-M’s goal of creating and sustaining diverse, equitable and inclusive communities on campus and beyond.
Please submit the following to http://apply.interfolio.com/148005 by October 14, 2024.
Middle English and Medievalism
Description: The Department of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle English Literature and Medievalism. The standard teaching load for tenure-track faculty is 2/2. Candidates should be able to teach courses in Middle English literature and its medievalism at both undergraduate and graduate levels; mentor and advise students; serve on departmental, college, and/or university committees; direct dissertations and theses; and conduct research in relevant areas of the field. Applicants should submit a cover letter and CV for initial consideration.
Qualifications: PhD in English in hand by August 2025; record of professional activities, publications, and teaching experience.
Target date for the hire: August 1, 2025.
Deadline to post - December 1, 2024.
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature Before the Modern Period
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies invites applications for a tenure-track position as assistant professor in Japanese literature before the modern period. The position is to begin August 1, 2025. Any scholar working in Japanese materials from earliest literary history to the end of the Edo period is welcome to apply. Expectations include the ability to teach broadly across the whole range of Japanese literature before the Meiji period. The successful candidate will also demonstrate the ability to teach classical Japanese. We have particular interest in those able to teach in translation studies. The scholar in this position will contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs of the department. The teaching load is two courses per semester.
Stanford Department of English Search for Assistant Professor of Renaissance Literature
The Department of English at Stanford University is searching for scholars who research and teach in the field of Renaissance Literature. This is a search at the rank of Assistant Professor (on the tenure-track).
Applicants must have demonstrated a commitment to effective teaching and mentoring and the ability to maintain a world-class research program. The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. at the time of appointment and will be expected to teach and advise students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. The term of appointment is expected to begin on September 1, 2025.
We welcome applications from scholars across the entire range of the Renaissance period and of all methodological approaches. We are focused on identifying exceptional scholarship rather than looking for a specific specialization.
Candidates should submit:
- a brief (2-page) cover letter
- a 3-page statement of research and teaching interests
- a curriculum vitae
- a writing sample (20-30 pages)
- three recommendation letters
Further material may be requested later.
Applications will be accepted through October 1, 2024 (11:55pm PST).
Candidates must apply through the following link: https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/494714/assistant-professor-of-renaissance-literature
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
The Department of French, Francophone and Italian Studies and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program at Wellesley College invite applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Italian and Medieval and Renaissance Studies beginning July 1, 2025.
Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Italian, a commitment to language teaching at all levels, and demonstrated promise in teaching and scholarship in Dante Studies, as well as in Medieval and Renaissance Italy and France.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach four courses, two in the fall and two in the spring, one on Dante and the others on important aspects of Medieval and Renaissance literature and culture. The candidate might be asked to teach an Italian language course. Special consideration will be given to candidates interested in comparative and interdisciplinary research and teaching in Italian and French culture, as well as in Mediterranean Studies.
Interested applicants should submit applications through our on-line system at https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/wellesley/wellesley-faculty
Temporary, full-time position of Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies is available at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, from 2025–29, replacing a permanent member of staff on research leave.
Applicants must document research expertise in the art, visual and material cultures of Asia during the age of globalization, c. 1500 to the present. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the field in research and teaching within ecological and postcolonial art history. The position is open to a broad range of geographical, chronological and material foci, but emphasis will be placed on the applicants' abilities to relate their expertise to the Art history section's ongoing research and teaching activities.
For information about the BA program, see: https://www.uio.no/studier/program/kunsthistorie/index.html (Norwegian only).
For information on the MA program, see: https://www.uio.no/studier/program/kunsthistorie-master/index.html (Norwegian only).
For information about our research groups, see: https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/groups/international-and-nordic-modernism/index.html and https://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/groups/visual- studies/index.html
The full-time position is divided into 47% of the work being dedicated to teaching, 47% to research and 6% to administrative work.
The successful candidate is expected to initiate and lead research, supervise students at BA, MA, and PhD level, participate in teaching and in exam setting and assessment at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the department.
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