Last application date Jun 01, 2026 23:59
Department LW22 - Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication
Degree MA
Occupancy rate 100%
Vacancy type Research staff
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YOUR TASKS
We have a vacancy for a fully-funded four-year position as a doctoral researcher on a project at the intersection of Romantic studies and literary, translation, and media studies. The project has been awarded to Prof Dr Brecht de Groote by the national funding agency FWO (Research Foundation Flanders, grant code: G084426N). Its full title is "Recovering the British-French Romantic Media Concept by Recomposing Transnational Impostures." Ghent University serves as the host institution for the project.
The aim of the project is to study the national circulation and transnational (i.e. between Britain and France) exchanges of hoaxes, misinformation, disinformation and similar phenomena in the Romantic period. Working closely with the project’s supervisor, you will compile and analyse, through close reading and digital methods, a corpus of texts in order to examine how writers and translators identified, created and disseminated or thwarted potential misinformation as it spread across borders.
As a doctoral researcher, you will be working towards a doctoral dissertation and a doctoral degree, and you will be expected to present and publish your work in relevant national and international venues. You will also be expected to take on limited teaching and administrative or organisational duties. At least 80% of your of your assignment will be reserved for academic research in preparation of a doctoral dissertation.