Masaryk University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow in the field of Byzantine narrative.

The post-doc fellow will pursue his/her own research in the field of Byzantine literature. He/she will join a small team, comprising two doctoral students and one senior researcher and currently working mainly on the narratological research of Byzantine epics and novel. The post-doc fellow should enrich the variety of examined texts and approaches by focusing on another Byzantine genre, preferably on historiography or hagiography, with emphasis on testing and applying modern literary methods, especially narratology, on the Medieval Greek material.

Within the two-year period of the fellowship, the post-doc fellow should prepare either one book-length study or at least four shorter chapters or articles dealing with her/his chosen topics and adopting narratological approaches. He/she will also present his/her research at conferences and seminars both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The post-doc fellow will also participate in other activities of the Department of Classical Studies: co-organizing workshops, seminars or public lectures relevant to her/his specialization and presenting his/her work in the postgraduate seminars of the study programme Greek Studies.

The successful candidate should be a researcher who has received a PhD or its equivalent within the last 7 years and has worked at least two whole years in the last three years outside the territory of the Czech Republic in the field of research with a working time of at least 0,5 FTE, or who has been a PhD student (or equivalent) abroad.