Three PhD Positions in Literary Studies and Translation Studies on World Literature, Digitality, and Mobility KU Leuven in Belgium

KU Leuven’s Faculty of Arts is advertising a fully funded PhD position in Literary Studies / Translation Studies focused on Writer’s Residencies and the Emergence of World Literature . The project sits within the larger EMLIT research program, which examines how world literature is shaped by pluriactivity, digital mediation, and mobility. The doctoral work will be based mainly on the Leuven campus, with close collaboration with researchers in Leuven and Antwerp. The project investigates European...

KU Leuven is advertising a PhD position in Literary Studies / Translation Studies on Writer’s Residencies and the Emergence of World Literature (ref. BAP-2026-552). The project is part of the larger EMLIT: Pluriactivity, Digitality, Mobility, and the Emergence of World Literature research program, which examines how contemporary world literature is shaped by unstable conditions of cultural labor, digital mediation, and mobility. The doctoral project focuses on the role of European writer’s resid...

PhD opportunity in Literary Studies / Translation Studies at KU Leuven The Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is recruiting a PhD candidate for the project Pluriactive Literary Labor and the Infrastructures of World Literature , part of the larger EMLIT: Pluriactivity, Digitality, Mobility, and the Emergence of World Literature research program. The project is based at the Antwerp campus, with close collaboration across Antwerp and Leuven. The research investigates how emerging literary artists in Eur...

KU Leuven’s Faculty of Arts is offering a four-year PhD position in Literary Studies / Translation Studies on the project “Digital Magazines and the Emergence of Contemporary World Literature.” The position is part of the broader EMLIT research program, which investigates pluriactivity, digitality, and mobility as key features of how world literature is produced and circulated today. The doctoral project is based at KU Leuven’s Leuven campus, with close collaboration across the university’s Antw...

PhD opportunity at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium The Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, together with the Faculty of Languages and Humanities, are recruiting a PhD student with a doctoral grant for the newly created Brussels Centre for Interdisciplinary Resistance Studies (Inter-RESIST) . The project sits at the intersection of digital humanities , media and communication studies , literary studies , translation studies , and interdisciplinary cultural research. I...