FYI:AHRC-funded doctoral studentship: Queer Theory in France

[Zhiqiang Shi 史志强]

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AHRC-funded doctoral studentship: Queer Theory in France

Applications are invited for a three-year doctoral studentship, funded by
the AHRC and commencing in October 2012. The studentship will be based in
the Department of French Studies at Warwick University. The studentship is
one of two attached to the AHRC-funded interinstitutional research project
‘Queer Theory in France’, run jointly by Dr Oliver Davis (CI, Warwick) and
Dr Hector Kollias (PI, King’s College London). The applicant for the
Warwick doctoral studentship will be expected to propose a thesis topic
which engages with aspects of the political and social context of queer
theory in France.

Project summary:

This project seeks to analyse the appropriation of French thought by
British and American queer theorists and to examine moments of recognition
and resistance in the ongoing re-translation of queer theory back into the
French national context. In what ways have significant overarching
political, social and legal differences in the three national contexts
influenced this traffic of ideas? Is a theorization of lesbian and gay, or
queer, cultures as subcultures necessarily in conflict with French
Republican universalism? How is queer separatism framed differently in each
national context? How resistant have French academic institutions been to
queer theory and why? Why have some disciplines been less resistant than
others? How has queer theory’s retranslation into the French context been
affected by the prominence of psychoanalysis in France? How have different
French feminisms influenced the re-translation of queer theory into the
French national context? How prominent are transgender questions in French
queer theory; is it accurate to allege that French queer theory has tended
to eschew ‘gender trouble’ and favoured instead ‘homonormativity’? How do
the three national contexts differ in their intracultural translation of
queer ideas? How do they differ in moving between activist-popular and
intellectual-academic contexts?

The successful applicant will either have an undergraduate degree in French
(Studies), with some evidence of specialisation in questions of gender
and/or sexuality, or in History, or Sociology, or Philosophy, in each case
with some evidence again of interest in such questions and also in France
and the contemporary context. The successful applicant will have fluent
spoken and written French and will have developed their skills of
conceptual analysis and their engagement with questions of gender and
sexuality at Master’s level.

The successful candidate will be expected to undertake funded research
visits to France, which will include interview-based research. S/he will
also be expected to organize, under the supervision of the investigators,
two one-day seminar-workshops at Warwick, one in Year 2 and one in Year 3
of the project. S/he will be expected to assist the investigators in the
organization of an international conference in Year 3 and to assist the
investigators in the organization of public panel debates in Year 3 of the
project. In addition to the doctoral thesis, the successful candidate will,
by the end of the project, be expected to have written one article for
publication and presented at least two seminar or conference papers.

The studentship will pay for all tuition fees (at UK/EU rates) and will
provide a maintenance grant of £13,400 in the first year, rising to £13,745
in the second year and £14,123 in the third.

Potential applicants are warmly invited to contact Oliver Davis with any
questions about either the studentship or the project: O.D...@warwick.ac.uk

How to apply:

The extended deadline for receipt of applications is midday on Friday 15
June 2012.

Applications must consist of:

1.    CV

2.    covering letter

3.    research proposal

4.    c.5000-word sample of the candidate’s academic writing. These first
four tems should be sent, together, by post to: Dr Oliver Davis, Department
of French Studies, Warwick University CV4 7AL, UK.

5.    two confidential supporting references, which candidates should ask
referees to send directly, by post or email, to Dr Oliver Davis by that
same 15 June deadline.

6.    completion by 15 June of an application through the central Warwick
University online application process at
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/apply/

Shortlisted candidates may be interviewed late June or early July. 

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史志强 /Shi, Zhiqiang

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