Doctoral Programme in Language & Literature Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany

The Class of Language within the Graduate School Language & Literature at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich offers a doctoral environment for research in the linguistic disciplines. The program combines a structured interdisciplinary curriculum with individual and intensive supervision by faculty members, and it encourages exchange among doctoral candidates, faculty, and international visiting scholars. For the summer semester 2027 , LMU Munich invites applications for one funded doctoral p...

Fully funded PhD positions are available at the University of Konstanz in the DFG Research Training Group “Post-Eurocentric Europe: Narratives of a World Province in Transformation” , based in the Department of Literature, Art and Media Studies. The call covers 12 PhD positions across literary studies, cultural studies, history, anthropology, political science, and law . The project is strongly interdisciplinary and is aimed at applicants who can develop a dissertation project within one of thes...

The Käte Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for the 2027/2028 academic year. The fellowship period runs from October 2027 to September 2028, with durations of six to twelve months starting on 1 October 2027. The centre’s research programme focuses on cultural practices of reparation and irreparability, asking how societies respond to harms that cannot be fully undone. The 2027/2028 annual theme...

The Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) is advertising a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in Prague for the department Knowledge and Participation , starting 1 February 2027. The post is based in Prague, with regular travel to Leipzig for central institute events. The appointment is initially fixed term for four years, with the possibility of becoming permanent subject to satisfactory performance and available funding. The department, headed by Dr Mic...

Freie Universität Berlin is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the Chair of Global Literature and Its Media with a Focus on Gender Studies in the Department of English Philology. The successful researcher will develop and conduct an independent postdoctoral project drawing on Global Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and/or World Literature with an intersectional orientation. The role connects individual research with the chair’s wider work on Anglophone literatures, cultures and media from t...