About the Program
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress announces a new Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies to examine the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture and international relations using the Library’s collections and resources.

History teaches that groundbreaking technological innovations can be agents of broad and profound change. Their transformative effect on society can be greater than is anticipated or originally understood. Innovations such as the printing press and aerial flight continue to affect every level of human experience. The digital revolution is another such transformation.

The Library’s John W. Kluge Center seeks proposals from scholars worldwide that will generate deep, empirically-grounded understanding of the consequences of the digital revolution on how people think, how society functions, and on international relations. Proposals may also explore and analyze emerging trends and new phenomena that may generate consequential changes in the future. All proposals must state the importance of the research to fundamental thinking about the human condition.

Scholars should include a discussion of how the resources of the Library of Congress will inform the intended research. Resources at the Library of Congress include:

The National Digital Library with more than 30 million online documents in support of the study of the history and culture of the United States.
The World Digital Library, a collaborative digitization of national and cultural treasures from countries worldwide.
The Library of Congress web archiving program, which preserves millions of websites pertaining to significant events such as the terror attacks of 9/11 and United States Presidential elections.
The National Digital Newspaper Program of 5 million newspaper pages.
The Records of the U.S. Copyright Office, including digital deposits.
The Law Library of Congress collection of more than 2.8 million law books and other legal resources.
The Library’s general collection of 35 million volumes.
The Library’s subscriptions to e-journals and electronic databases.
Scholars are encouraged to think creatively of how the Library’s collections may inform a study of the digital revolution’s impact on how we think, how we live, and how we relate to one another.

PLEASE NOTE: Although the Library of Congress continues to collect and archive tweets, the Twitter Archive is not currently available to researchers

Eligibility
Open to scholars and practitioners worldwide.
Open to U.S. citizens or foreign nationals.
Open to scholars from all disciplines.
Ph.D. or other advanced terminal degree strongly preferred.
Tenure & Stipend
For residency up to eleven (11) months. Constraints of space and the desirability of accommodating the maximum number of Fellows may lead to an offer of fewer months than requested.
$4,200 per month, paid monthly by the Library of Congress, by means of electronic transfer to a U.S. bank account.
For residential research at the Library of Congress only.
Applications
Applicants must submit:

A completed application form, in English
A curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages; additional pages will be discarded)
A complete project proposal, including:
– A single-paragraph abstract
– A statement of proposed research (maximum 3 pages)
– An explanation of why the Library of Congress is the appropriate venue for your research (maximum 1 paragraph)
– A bibliography of works you have consulted for your proposal
3 references with completed reference forms from people who have read the research proposal
Applicants should indicate the collections of the Library of Congress that will be used for research.

Due Date
The annual application deadline is December 6. Application materials must be submitted by the deadline date via the Kluge Center’s online application system.

Expectations
Kluge Fellows in Digital Studies will give at least one public presentation of their research. Two copies of any ultimate product of this research (book, article, film, website, etc.) should be sent to the Library of Congress Kluge Center. Fellows can expect to have opportunities to meet with Library specialists and curators while in residence. This is a residential fellowship, and the Fellows are expected to be in full-time residence (for up to 11 months) at the Kluge Center within the Library of Congress while conducting research at the Library. The Fellows will be provided with research space and support in the Kluge Center and are expected to engage in the life of the Center while in residence. The Kluge Center cannot at this time provide any specialty software or nonstandard equipment that may be necessary for the Fellows’ proposed research. Fellows should utilize specialty software on their own personal computers.

Evaluation
A panel of scholars will review your application materials. The panel will consider your application in relation to numerous other proposals. Evaluation criteria will include:

The significance of the project’s contribution to knowledge in the field.
The quality of the conception, definition, organization and description of the project.
The likelihood that the applicant will complete the project.
The appropriateness of the research for the Library of Congress.
Awards
Up to three (3) Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies will be awarded by the Library of Congress.

Awards will be announced in the spring of the year following that in which the application is due. For non-U.S. fellows, your award is conditioned on visa and payment eligibility, which are determined on a case-by-case basis.

Your payment may be subject to federal and state income taxes. To qualify for entry into the United States under a Library-sponsored J-visa, you must obtain specific types and amounts of medical insurance to cover you during your stay in the United States. If your present medical insurance does not meet these requirements, you are required to arrange for a separate policy prior to your arrival. Staff members are available to provide guidance regarding insurance requirements. The Library does not provide health insurance coverage but can provide contacts with commercial providers.

If you are a U.S. resident, the Library will provide you with an annual report of Library payments to you during the calendar year, but it will not issue you a Form W-2 or Form 1099-MISC. Determining the amount of federal and state income taxes that you may owe will be your responsibility.

Award letters will include a form that must be filled out and submitted to the Library of Congress to determine tax residency status and the potential for U.S. Federal income tax withholding. Scholars who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents and who do not already have a U.S. Social Security number will be required to obtain either a Social Security or tax identification number, as appropriate, at the start of their fellowship at the Library, regardless of the taxability of their income under this program or exemption under a treaty with the United States.

Transportation arrangements are the responsibility of each fellow. Housing is not provided by the Library of Congress.

Contact Information
Completed application packets should be submitted via the Kluge Center’s online application system. Applications submitted via email, fax, or regular mail will not be considered. For questions about application procedures, eligibility, stipend or deadlines, please email scholarly@loc.gov or write to us at:

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies
The John W. Kluge Center
Library of Congress, LJ-120
101 Independence Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20540-4860
tel. 202 707-3302; fax 202 707-3595
email: scholarly@loc.gov

For more information, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/kluge-digital.html

Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD scholarship in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, Belgium, tenable for a period of up to four years. The successful candidate will participate in the research project “Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene,” sponsored by a grant from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) and directed by Prof.Stef Craps. S/he will research Anglophone climate change fiction within the context of the project’s three interrelated strands. The first, formalist strand explores the literary innovations demanded by climate change, a phenomenon whose magnitude and complexity challenge conventional modes of representation. The second, historicist strand links climate change fiction to literary responses to earlier crises that radically altered humanity’s relationship to the past, present, and future: the discovery of geological time in the early nineteenth century and the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation. The third, postcolonial strand investigates to what extent and in what ways climate change fiction addresses inequalities in the global distribution of responsibility for and vulnerability to climate change, which the developing Anthropocene narrative risks obscuring.

Candidates should have:

• a Master’s degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant field, such as English, Comparative Literature, or Environmental Humanities (candidates near to completion may also submit applications, indicating the expected date of the degree);
• an outstanding academic record;
• excellent writing and speaking skills in English;
• an aptitude for original, independent, and creative work. 

Conditions of employment:

• The position begins 1 October 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter but no later than 31 December 2016.
• The scholarship is initially offered for a period of two years and can be renewed for another two-year period upon positive evaluation.
• The net amount of the scholarship will be approximately 1900 EUR per month, gradually rising to approximately 2100 EUR per month in the fourth year. The PhD student will also receive a holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus, and enjoy full social security coverage. Additional financial support is available for conference and workshop attendance.
• The PhD student will be based at Ghent University.
• The PhD student will complete the doctoral training programme offered by the Doctoral School of Arts, Humanities, and Law. 

Applications should include:

• a cover letter, in which you specify why you are interested in this position and why you consider yourself a suitable candidate;
• a current CV;
• transcripts of your qualifications to date (degrees and grade lists);
• a writing sample (excerpt from your Master’s thesis, article, etc.);
• names and full contact details of two referees.

The application deadline is 20 May 2016 or until a suitable candidate is found.

The position announcement may be found here.

Further information about the position can be obtained from Prof. Stef Craps (stef.craps@ugent.be).

Applications should be submitted as a single PDF file via email to stef.craps@ugent.be.

Application period now open for 2016-17 Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship

The Mullen Fellowship offers stipends of up to $3000 per applicant to support research at any archive that has sf holdings pertinent to the dissertation topic. The program was instituted to honor Richard “Dale” Mullen, founder of Science Fiction Studies.

Qualified applicants will be PhD students from any accredited doctoral program who are pursuing an approved dissertation topic in which science fiction (broadly defined) is a major emphasis. The research may involve science fiction of any nation or culture and of any era. Applications may propose research in—but need not limit themselves to—specialized sf archives such as the Eaton Collection at UCR, the Maison d’Ailleurs in Switzerland, the Judith Merril Collection in Toronto, or the SF Foundation Collection in Liverpool. Proposals for work in general archives with relevant sf holdings—authors’ papers, for example—are also welcome. For possible research locations, applicants may wish to consult the partial list of sf archives compiled in SFS 37.2 (July 2010): 161-90. This list is also available online at: <http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/files/2010/08/WASF-Teachers-Guide-2Archives.pdf>.

The application should be written in English and should describe the dissertation, clarifying the centrality of science fiction to the project’s overall design. It should show knowledge of the specific holdings and strengths of the archive in which the proposed research will be conducted, and it should provide a work-plan and budget. Candidates should clarify why research in this particular archive is crucial to the proposed project. Students who receive awards must acknowledge the support provided by SFS’s Mullen Fellowship program in their completed dissertations and in any published work that makes use of research supported by the fellowship.

A complete application consists of a project description (approximately 500 words) with a specific plan of work, updated curriculum vitae, itemized budget, and two letters of reference, including one from the faculty supervisor of the dissertation.

Applications should be submitted electronically to the chair of the evaluation committee, Sherryl Vint, at sherryl.vint@gmail.com.  Applications are due April 1, 2016 and awards will be announced May 1, 2016. The selection committee in 2016-17 consists of Neil Easterbrook and DeWitt Douglas Kilgore (SFS Advisory Board members) and Carol McGuirk and Sherryl Vint, SFS editors.

The Centre for Studies in Literature at the University of Portsmouth seeks to appoint a Research Associate to work on Portsmouth City Council’s Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, as part of a project on ‘Celebrities, Fans and Muses’.

The post is full-time, for 8 months and the closing date for applications is 21 September 2015.  Further details can be found on the University’s vacancies page: https://port.engageats.co.uk/ViewVacancy.aspx?enc=mEgrBL4XQK0+ld8aNkwYmIj7gyGvInud/iCDXh3jsBBMcvO9mYJN5Q6Dj8JRS0MrIO4VeAVfHG2RklGtAL5y9SIf0JuIcQKnxFI1Rdzz0fQ9SWqbHtyc+qOYX6zI60qLxNlSX+yMagAvFzDAZK8hbg==

Best wishes

Charlotte

Dr Charlotte Boyce

University of Portsmouth

“Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I send the call for an interesting 3 years-doctoral grant on “Techno and Media Ecology of Digital Culture” – this grant is situated at the Digital Culture Research Lab (DCRL) of Leuphana, University of Lueneburg (focus „Re-Thinking the Technological Condition“, whose director I am) as well as at my new Chair of Media Culture at Leuphana’s Institute of Culture and Aesthetics of Digital Media (ICAM). Especially participating at the DCRL is a great opportunity for a doctoral candidate, I guess.

http://www.leuphana.de/bewerben/jobs-und-karriere/stipendien/ansicht-stipendien/datum/2014/05/09/doctoral-scholarship.html

And let me please add: this call is completely open! Maybe you know somebody who could be interested in, and please let it circulate.

(And this might be interesting only for some of you: there is an additional german call for another doctoral grant in “Media Studies” at my chair at Leuphana:

http://www.leuphana.de/bewerben/jobs-und-karriere/stipendien/ansicht-stipendien/datum/2014/05/09/1-promotionsstipendium-im-fach-medienwissenschaft.html

Be aware: This is a different call for a different grant!)

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts is accepting applications for the position of Head of the The Fantastic in Children’s and Young-Adult Literature and Art Division. Those interested in applying must send a cover letter explaining their interest in and qualifications for the position, and a current CV, to the First Vice-President, Dale Knickerbocker knickerbockerd@ecu.edu, no later than 18 May 2014. Division Heads are appointed by the President, on the recommendation of the First Vice-President, who chairs the Council of Division Heads, after formal discussion and majority vote of the Board. The three-year term will begin immediately upon appointment in June.

Each Division Head organizes and supervises all conference activity within a subdivision of fantastic scholarship. Division Heads work under the guidance of the First Vice-President. Division Heads are responsible for recruiting session proposals and papers and are responsible for formatting these to the requirements of the First Vice-President. Division Heads are responsible for forwarding all information to the First Vice-President in a timely fashion. Division Heads have the responsibility to check the draft program for accuracy and AV needs. Division Heads are expected to liaise with other Division Heads and the First Vice-President. The First Vice-President is the final arbiter of the program under the aegis of the Executive Board. At the conference the Division Heads oversee sessions in their respective Divisions and collect suggestions for future topics, special guests, etc.