PhD Position on Speculative Fiction and Imaginaries of the Future

What are you going to do

You will be a part of a research project which explores how speculative fiction (and its many textual forms) contributes to conceptualizations of the future. The project leaders work respectively in (Italian) literature and language (with an expertise in science in literature, science fiction and speculative fiction) and Hispanic literatures and cultural analysis (with an expertise in ecofeminism) and are developing a research project on past and peripheral imaginations of the future that envision less ‘futuristic’ futures for both (human) animals and the planet. You will develop a PhD project of your own choosing and are encouraged to think creatively in terms of research design within the scope of Speculative Fictions.

We welcome proposals that adopt a transnational approach (beyond national literary traditions) and/or in diasporic, postcolonial contexts (for example Italian-American, Afro-Caribbean and the Black Medi...