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Cult2b - PhD fellowship fundamental research

Literature, Film and Theatre

Scope

This Expert panel welcomes applications from all disciplines of research in literature, film and theatre. It includes more specifically:  

Literature

  • Literature covering all regions, cultures and times
  • Transmission of literature (conceptual and material, from papyrus to cloud storage)
  • Classical tradition and its ‘Nachleben’
  • Poetica and Retorica   
  • Organisation of knowledge
  • Comparative literature
  • Text editing including methodologies of digital humanities
  • Sociology of literary texts
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Literary history
  • Literary translation studies
  • Oral literature
  • Literary theory
  • Gender studies and literature
  • Environmental humanities
  • Empirical Study of Literature: reader-psychological and institutional-sociological study
  • Creative writing

Film

Theatre

Cross-field domains

  • Digital humanities
  • Ecocriticism & environmental humanities
  • Cultural studies                
  • Postcolonial studies
  • Gender studies
  • Classical tradition
  • Narratology

Members - Composition 2026

Name Institution
Chair
Collani Tania Université de Haute-Alasce
Members
Aarons Wendy Carnegie Mellon University,Center for the Arts in Society, CMU
Cairns Douglas University of Edinburgh
Cuomo Andrea UGent
Majsova Natalija University of Ljubljana
Mäkelä Maria Tampere University
McCarthy Erin University of Galway
Mulligan Bret Haverford College
Ncube Gibson Stellenbosch University
Rubery Matthew Queen Mary University of London
Viiding Kristi Estonian Research Council Evaluation Committee, Estonian Academy of Sciences Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, Czech Research Agency, KU Leuven
Willems Gertjan UAntwerpen / UGent