Cult2 - PhD fellowship fundamental research

This expert panel welcomes applications from all disciplines of research in the arts, art theory, art history, architecture and design, cultural studies and literature. It includes more specifically:

Art & art history

• Art & art history covering all regions, cultures and times
• History & theory of art history
• Research in the arts, artistic research, art research
• Material culture studies
• Music covering all regions, cultures and times
• Music, music history, musicology and sound studies
• Visual arts, applied arts, music, performing arts, design, architecture, interaction and game design and - one or more - combinations thereof
• Jewellery, textile and fashion design
• Film and audio-visual arts
• Performance studies: music, theatre, dance
• Conservation, restoration and technical art history
• Curatorship, museum studies and museology
  

Architecture & design

• Architecture covering all regions, cultures and times
• History of architectural studies
• Architecture, urban design & interior architecture covering all regions, cultures and times
• Architectural theory
• Design praxis and research by design
• Heritage history & theory including critical heritage studies
• Adaptive reuse (theory & design)
• Participatory design
• Product development: human centred design
• Design for well-being

Literature

• Literature covering all regions, cultures and times
• Transmission of literature (conceptual and material, from papyrus to cloud storage)
• Classical tradition and its ‘Nachleben’
• Poetica and rhetorica
• Organisation of knowledge
• Comparative literature
• Text editing including methodologies of digital humanities
• Sociology of literary texts
• Literary history
• Literary translation studies
• Oral literature
• Literary theory
• Gender studies and literature
• Environmental humanities
• Empirical study of literature: reader-psychological and institutional-sociological study

Cross-field domains

• Digital humanities
• Ecocriticism & environmental humanities
• Cultural studies
• Postcolonial studies
• Gender studies
• Classical tradition