Current committee member Natalya Bekhta is looking for candidates to fill a funded three-year doctoral position in her research project on “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989” (Tampere University, Finland). The project, funded by the Research Council of Finland, studies utopian imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries in Eastern Europe with a larger aim to deprovincialise literatures of this region by (a) mapping anew the existing geographies of comparison, (b) developing a comparative theory of literary semi-peripheries, and (c) revising the current understanding of the novel as a globally-dominant genre. Thematic focus on utopia serves as a strategic frame and a socio-cultural interest, through which this set of research problems is approached.

Deadline for applications: 7 July 2025. For further details click HERE.