PhD Position on Linguistic Representation of Gender in Translated Children's Literature
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University of Amsterdam
- Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: PhD
- Experience level: 0-5 years
- Organisation type: Research
- Remote option: No
- Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
- Renumeration: $2,872-$3,670 / monthly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 20/09/2024
- Location: Netherlands
The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the research project Tales and Tongues across Time: A Linguistic Exploration of a Century of Gender Representation in Children's Books in the Netherlands, led by principal investigator dr. Martje Wijers and funded through a Startersbeurs grant.
What are you going to do?
Children's literature plays a crucial role in shaping societal values and cultural norms. Stories serve as a significant means through which beliefs about sociocultural phenomena, such as gender are formed in children. The project Tales and Tongues across Time: A Linguistic Exploration of a Century of Gender Representation in Children's Books in the Netherlands aims to explore how gender representation in the language of children's books has evolved over the past century (1925-2025) in the Netherlands. This study will analyze original Dutch books and translations from English and Scandinavian languages, focusing on linguistic elements like pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and verbs to understand changes in gender portrayal over time and and in the process of translation and transcreation. Applying distant reading methods, the research aims to uncover how societal values reflected in language evolve and impact cultural norms.
Tasks and responsibilities
What are you going to do?
Children's literature plays a crucial role in shaping societal values and cultural norms. Stories serve as a significant means through which beliefs about sociocultural phenomena, such as gender are formed in children. The project Tales and Tongues across Time: A Linguistic Exploration of a Century of Gender Representation in Children's Books in the Netherlands aims to explore how gender representation in the language of children's books has evolved over the past century (1925-2025) in the Netherlands. This study will analyze original Dutch books and translations from English and Scandinavian languages, focusing on linguistic elements like pronouns, nouns, adjectives, and verbs to understand changes in gender portrayal over time and and in the process of translation and transcreation. Applying distant reading methods, the research aims to uncover how societal values reflected in language evolve and impact cultural norms.
Tasks and responsibilities
- submission of a PhD thesis within the period of appointment;
- compiling a corpus of children's literature
- conducting computational linguistic analysis on a large corpus;
- participating in meetings of the research group Corpus based and/or Computational Approaches to Language and Literature (CCALL) and possibly other relevant research groups;
- publishing one single-authored, peer reviewed article;
- presenting intermediate research results at workshops and conferences;
- organising knowledge dissemination activities;
- (co-)teaching courses at BA-level in the second and third year of the appointment (maximum 0,2 fte per year);
- participation in the Research School and Faculty of Humanities PhD training programmes.
Your experience and profile
Candidates need to have the following qualifications:
- a completed Master's degree in translation studies, linguistics, literary studies or a related field. You may apply if you have not yet completed your Master's degree only if you provide a signed letter from your university stating that you have met all requirements to obtain your master’s degree and will graduate before 30 November 2024;
- excellent research skills demonstrated by an outstanding Master's thesis and a demonstrable capacity to develop a track record of publishing in high-ranking journals and/or with leading presses;
- interest in and willingness to learn how to apply distant reading methods;
- ability to work independently and a strong cooperative attitude;
- enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences;
- good command of Dutch, English and at least one other language (preferably Swedish or another Scandinavian language).
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