Job reference
P91326
Date posted
11/04/2024
Application closing date
16/05/2024
Location
Exeter
Salary
The starting salary will be from £32,982 on Grade E, depending on qualifications and experience.
Package
Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme and relocation package (if applicable).
Contractual hours
36.5
Basis
Full-time
Job category/type
Research
Attachments
P91326 JD.pdf
Postdoctoral Research Associate (The Europe That Gay Porn Built,
1945-2000)
Job description
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
This AHRC-funded post is available from 1 November 2024 to 31 August 2027.
Summary of the role
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the work of Professor Jana Funke and contribute to the collaborative AHRC-funded “The Europe That Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000” project.
"The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000" examines, for the first time, the ways in which postwar gay erotica and porn magazines helped forge a pan- European gay male constituency build on processes of identification, solidarity and subcultural distinction that we proposed to call "homoeuropeanism": a specifically homosexual and sexualised form of European identification that developed in the context of postwar geopolitics. It will tell a unique new history of "Europe," one capable of decentring its hegemonic narratives by means of identifying and mappings its subcultural homosexual enunciations in postwar gay erotica and porn magazines, and its dissemination via the latter's transitional networks of production, circulation, and consumption.
You will join an international team of researchers on “The Europe that Gay Porn Built, 1945–2000” project, co-led by Professor Funke, Professor John Mercer (Birmingham City University), and Professor João Florêncio (Linköping University, Sweden).
You will conduct archival research and oral history interviews in Poland and the United Kingdom, contribute to data processing and analysis, support project administration, and devise and write a research monograph on a topic of their choice relating to Cold War politics and aesthetics as mediated by postwar European gay porn magazines, drawing from the project's data.
You will be expected to work closely with colleagues at the University of Exeter, Birmingham City University, and Linköping University.
About you
You will:
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
What we can offer you
Further information
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Jana Funke, Associate Professor of English and Sexuality Studies, [email protected].
Interviews are expected to take place in June.