Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages

University of Oxford - St Hugh’s College

Applications are invited for a Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Languages at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, tenable from 1 October 2026. This is a two-year, fixed-term, full-time position, suitable for an early-career researcher who has completed a doctorate or is close to completion and who wishes to follow an academic career. Applicants should not have held a comparable research fellowship previously.

The Powys Roberts Fellowship is open to those working in the following fields, in any period:

• French and/or Francophone literatures and cultures;
• German, Austrian or Swiss literatures and cultures;
• Italian literatures and cultures.

A comparative or interdisciplinary approach to work in these fields is also welcomed. The Fellow will have associate membership of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and of an appropriate Sub-Faculty in the University of Oxford.

The basic stipend of the Fellow will be at National Pay Spine Point 29/Grade 7.1 (currently £39,424 per annum), progressing to Grade 7.2 in the second year of the Fellowship (£40,514). These figures include the Oxford University Weighting. In addition to salary, there is a personal research allowance of £969 per annum. The Fellow is entitled to free meals at the common table when the College kitchens are open.

Applications should be sent by email as a single PDF to academic.recruitment@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk by 9.00am on Friday 13 February 2026. Candidates should ask two referees to submit their references to the same email address by the same date. Written work should not be sent unless and until it is specifically requested. Interviews are likely to take place in the week beginning 9 March 2026.

Queries about the post should be addressed in the first instance to the Senior Tutor (senior.tutor@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk).

Please complete the Cover Sheet and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form, the links for which are below.

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