Montague Burton Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies

Are you a person holding a recent doctoral degree with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities ? Does your research and teaching demonstrate a sustained interest in the critical interdisciplinary project of both the Centre for Jewish Studies and the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds? Would you like to further develop an independent or collaborative research project within the Centre for Jewish Studies ?

The Centre for Jewish Studies is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with strong research and teaching interests in post-Holocaust visualities. You should hold a PhD or near to completion in a relevant field, and expertise in an area related to history of art/visual culture. Your research will demonstrate a sustained interest in the critical interdisciplinary project of both the Centre and the School as a whole. You will have proven skills and experience in both teaching and research. You will have an independent or collaborative research project, and participate in the research culture of the School and its associated research centres, especially the Centre for Jewish Studies. You will be expected to teach the undergraduate and postgraduate module From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of the Holocaust at undergraduate and MA levels; and contribute to undergraduate/postgraduate dissertation supervision.

Jewish Studies at the University of Leeds has a long tradition, going back to a lectureship established by Montague Burton’s benefaction to the university during WW2. The Montague Burton Fellowship was instrumental in setting up the Centre for Jewish Studies during the 1990s. Scholars at Leeds explore the changing roles of emancipatory projects and critically-reflexive approaches to historiography, conduct pioneering research on issues of cultural and sexual difference in Jewish culture, especially art history, visual culture, and the presence/difference of Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in pre-modern as well as modern art and visual cultures.

To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:

Dr Eva Frojmovic, Associate Professor History of Art, Director of Postgraduate Research Studies

Tel: +44 (0)113 343 5197, email: e.frojmovic@leeds.ac.uk