Postdoc position at the Department of Culture and Language

The Department of Culture and Language at SDU is looking for a postdoc with expertise in memory studies, activism and Italian Studies. 

The postdoc needs to have very good or near-native skills in Italian language and should hold a PhD in Cultural Studies, Italian Studies, anthropology, ethnography, or history with a strong focus on memory studies. Experience in investigating urban settings is an advantage. 

The successful candidate will participate in the research project Revival of Traumatic Pasts. Colonization, Nazism and Fascism in contemporary German and Italian Fiction and Memory Activism that investigates the growing awareness of the problematic colonial pasts in Germany and Italy and the interplay of literary writings and activism in promoting this development. The project will investigate how the memory of colonialism contests or relates to the histories of fascism or Nazism. 

Here you can read more about the position