Postdoctoral Fellow in Languages
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Position
The Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University invites applications for one fully funded PhD position within the ERC-funded research project:
“HAIR – Hair, Identity, Beauty, and the Self in Muslim Contexts: Emotional Landscapes and Changing Femininities Beyond the Veil”
Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Lisa Maria Franke
Ghent Centre for Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies
Department of Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Ghent University
Subproject: Lebanon
Project Description
The ERC project HAIR investigates the cultural, socio-religious, political and emotional meanings of beauty and body politics in Muslim majority contexts, with a particular focus on how beauty and hair practices intersect with identity formation, beauty ideals, gender norms, and selfhood beyond the veil.
Combining approaches from Arabic/Islamic studies, anthropology, gender studies, literature studies and Middle Eastern studies, the project explores how beauty and the body can function as a site of negotiation between individual agency, religious discourses, political agendas and societal expectations.
The research includes ethnographic fieldwork, literary analyses and digital methodologies across selected contexts in Egypt, Lebanon and the UAE.
PhD researchers will develop their own subprojects within the broader thematic and methodological framework of the ERC project.
Your Tasks
Research
- Develop and carry out an original PhD project within the scope of the ERC project.
- Conduct ethnographic and digital fieldwork and analyses of Arabic literary texts.
- Analyse qualitative data and source materials relevant to the HAIR research project and contribute to theoretical debates.
- Prepare and process source materials for computational analysis within the project database.
Academic Output
- Write a doctoral dissertation.
- Submit at least one article for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Present research at international conferences.
Collaboration & Participation
- Actively contribute to the ERC research team.
- Participate in project meetings, workshops and reading groups.
- Contribute to the organisation of academic events.
Training & Teaching
- Participate in doctoral training programmes at Ghent University.
- Limited teaching may be possible (depending on department needs).
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