Call for applications: Doctoral researcher (m/f/x) (TV-L E13, 75%) in a project on early modern literature of Japan

[Gordian Schreiber]

With apologies for crossposting, I am forwarding the following job announcement. In case of further questions, please contact Morgaine Setzer directly (morgain...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de):

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to a job opening for a doctoral
candidate (75%, TV-L E13) in project A05, “Narrating History under
Censorship and Commerce: Warriors and Rulership in Popular Historical
Fiction of Early Modern Japan,” within the framework of the
Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 427 Historical and
Transcultural Narratology, which will commence in October.

The application deadline is July 13. Application materials may be
submitted in English or German.

For further information, please consult the following link to the
application portal:

https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/ac2b2263a6a74a3bce3b7eeaf3482537ff1f31f40?ref=homepage

We would appreciate it if you could forward this call to interested
students.

Kind regards,

Morgaine Setzer

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Ruhr University Bochum
Faculty of East Asian Studies:
Department of Japanese History

In order to fill a fixed-term position in part-time (29.8725 hours/week
= 75%) by October 1, 2026, we are looking for a

Doctoral Researcher (m/f/x) (TV-L E13, 75%) in the CRC project A05
„Narrating History under Censorship and Commerce: Warriors and
Rulership in Popular Historical Fiction of Early Modern Japan“

The Collaborative Research Centre “Historical and Transcultural
Narratology” (TRR 427), funded by the German Research Foundation,
examines pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) narratives from
different cultural contexts with the aim of systematically and
comparatively investigating the dynamics and functions of narratives in
past contexts. The project, consisting of 19 PIs from 16 different
disciplines, is based at the universities of Bochum, Bonn, and Freiburg.


Within project A05, “Narrating History under Censorship and Commerce:
Warriors and Rulership in Popular Historical Fiction of Early Modern
Japan,” a part-time doctoral researcher position in Japanese Studies
is available starting October 1, 2026. The position is fixed-term until
June 30, 2030. The project investigates popular historical narratives in
early modern Japan within the context of commercial publishing and
political repression, using the Ehon Taikōki (絵本太閤記,
“Illustrated Chronicles of the Regent”, 84 volumes, 1797–1802) as
its principal case study. Through a comprehensive analysis of this work
in comparison with other contemporary publications, the project seeks to
determine how narrative techniques and strategies of popularization
evolved over time under the influence of censorship. The research will
combine methodological approaches involving AI-based tools with
hermeneutic textual interpretation and intermedial perspectives that
consider the relationship between text and image. The successful
candidate (m/f/x) will pursue a doctoral degree on this topic and
complete a dissertation in the form of a monograph, written either in
German or in English.