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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Literature, Sustainability and Culture

Our new Postdoctoral Fellow will begin this Summer, and will be announced shortly...

Postdoctoral Fellow Summer 2005 - Summer 2006

Adam Dickinson
Sustainable Writing Lab (SWL) Postdoctoral Fellow
adamwdickinson@gmail.com

Original Posting ~ Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Literature, Sustainability and Culture

The Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University (Toronto, Canada) is pleased to announce a competition for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, tenable at York University during the academic year 2005-2006 with the possibility of a one-year extension.

The Chair invites applications from a scholar who will have earned her or his doctorate between April, 2003 and April, 2005 in any field of the Humanities or Social Sciences related to environmental sustainability and cultural studies. Applicants with expertise related to sustainability and environmental literature (including but not limited to ecological literary theory and criticism, nature or environmental writing, ecopoetics, nature and/in literary history, and/or environmental philosophy and literature) will be given preference in this competition.

Sustainability and Culture is an interdisciplinary field focused on dynamics of the material relations, cultural processes, and discursive practices in and through which human beings, in interaction with other species/agents, produce and make sense of the biophysical environments in which they are involved, and out of which sustainability emerges as a problematique both locally and globally.

The Chair emphasizes sustainability as a practice of contest over environmental meanings as much as environmental resources, thus placing questions of culture at the centre of the scholarly and political equation. The focus of the Chair is to develop an international research network in sustainability and culture, to enrich scholarship in the field at York and internationally, and to engage in and support research that fosters understanding of the complex cultural relations in which issues of environmental issues are located.

The fellow's research program will focus on completing a research essay or creative work that develops the interrogation of environment and sustainability through literary criticism and/or creative writing. The fellow will be expected to assist the Chair with various research and conference-related activities, and to take a leadership role in the operation of the Sustainable Writing Laboratory in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. The fellow may, in addition to the fellowship, be asked to teach one full-year undergraduate course (ENVS 1800, Environmental Writing/Writing the Environment) in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. The remuneration for this fellowship is $35,000 per year Cdn.

For more information about the fellowship, please contact the Chair in Sustainability and Culture at essandi@yorku.ca or consult www.fes.yorku.ca.

Applicants should submit a 1,000-word statement of the work they would undertake during the proposed fellowship, along with a current curriculum vitae and one writing sample by April 30, 2005. The package should include two letters of recommendation in sealed envelopes. Applications should be sent to:

Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture