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About Doctoral School

Doctoral School of Humanities UW  was established in 2019 on the basis of many years of experience in educating doctoral students at the University of Warsaw. PhD students follow an interdisciplinary education program and gain knowledge, skills and competences that are the basis of their ongoing and future research work. The Doctoral School through its supervisors, supports doctoral students in the process of applying for a doctoral degree, which is the culmination of a four-year education cycle.

As a part of the education program, doctoral students participate in specialized classes (lectures, seminars) and courses shaping their scientific workshop and methodological competences. The Doctoral School  offers an interdisciplinary cooperation network, creating conditions for comprehensive scientific development.

Doctoral School of Humanities recruits in the following scientific disciplines:

• Archaeology 
• Philosophy
• History 
• Linguistics 
• Literary studies
• Culture and Religion Studies 
• Arts studies 

Project description

Research project manager: dr hab. Karolina Krasuska
E-mail: karolinakrasuska@uw.edu.pl

Financing: National Science Center 
Project type: PRELUDIUM BIS 
Duration: from 1st October 2023 to 30th September 2027

Project Summary:

The project “Affective Poetics: Manifestos and Women's Rhetorical Strategies, 1970-2020” focuses on the ways in which modes of anger and affective poetics are used in American women’s manifestos to shape the genre’s political potential for mobilizing resistance. The project answers the pressing need to engage critically with engaged women’s writing shaped by the recent publication of a number of anthologies collecting women’s rhetoric. Thanks to its focus on the analysis of affective poetics in radical women’s manifestos “Affective Poetics: Manifestos and Women's Rhetorical Strategies, 1970-2020” pioneers the next step in canonizing engaged women’s writing. The aim of the project is twofold. Firstly, it is to conceptualize a new genealogy of women's manifestos: one that emphasizes the ongoing radical potential of women’s rhetoric at a moment conventionally thought to be dominated by neoliberal feminism. The project exposes the entanglement of contemporary women’s manifestos with texts produced in the 1970s and 1980s, the so-called second wave of feminism. Two time frames are used not in terms of comparison or linear chronology, but rather in the sense of genealogy and the question of re-reading and appropriation of existing texts by contemporary thinkers. Secondly, “Affective Poetics: Manifestos and Women's Rhetorical Strategies, 1970-2020” examines manifesto as a genre, paying particular attention to its use of affect and rage in building persuasive rhetoric, capable of mobilizing women’s resistance. This research simultaneously fulfills a social and an academic objective: making heard women’s voices which were previously dismissed, mocked or marginalized, and expanding the theoretical toolbox for the analysis of radical women’s writing. 

Requirements:

• MA in cultural studies or American studies, with an MA thesis related to the project’s topic, defended by 20th September 2023
• Experience in gender studies research
• Excellent scholarly track record, scholarly publications will be an asset
• International experience
• Experience in conference presentations
• Experience in conference organizing and other project management
• Very good knowledge of English (C2)

Education

Education program

The education lasts 4 years. It includes obligatory classes (no more than 309-339 hours in total during the whole period of education) and the implementation of an individual research program, carried out under the supervision of a supervisor.

Beginning of education – 1st October 2023.

Scholarships

5000 PLN gross gross before performance assessment and 6000PLN gross gross after a successful performance assessment.

Recruitment

Schedule of the Doctoral School enrolment procedure:registration in IRK:

• registration of Candidates: 23rd May 2023, 12:00 pm – 1st June 2023, 11:59 pm
• qualification procedure: 5th - 7th June 2023
• announcement of the ranking list: till 13th June 2023, 11:59 pm
• accepting documents from qualified candidates: till 20th September 2023, 2 pm
• announcement of the list of accepted candidates: till 23rd September 2023
  
  

Recruitment fee

200 PLN

Form of the selection procedure:

Evaluation of the following elements shall be taken into account in the selection process:

1) scientific activity of the candidate based on a CV or resumé, documented with scans of materials attached to the application for admission to the School;

2) interview with the candidate / qualification examination

3) other achievements.

Language of the enrolment procedure, including interviews: 

The interview shall be carried out in Polish with parts in English or fully in English – in accordance with the candidate’s preferences presented in IRK. 

Required documents:

 The candidate shall submit the application for admission to the School only in IRK. It shall include:

• the application for admission to the School stating the discipline in which the candidate plans to pursue education, PESEL number or passport number, citizenship, contact details, information whether the candidate consents to the delivery of administrative decisions by electronic means of communication, consent to the processing of personal data for the purposes of the recruitment procedure;
• scan of a diploma of completion of the long-cycle Master’s degree programme or second-cycle programme or an equivalent diploma obtained under separate regulations or in the case of candidates pursuing education within the European Higher Education Area – a certificate of obtaining a Master’s degree or a declaration that the diploma or certificate of obtaining a Master’s degree shall be provided by 20 September 2023. In case the diploma was issued in a language other than Polish or English, the candidate submits its certified translation;
• a resumé or curriculum vitae containing information about scientific activities, including scientific interests and scientific achievements during five calendar years preceding the submission of the application; If the candidate becomes a parent during this period, which will be confirmed by enclosed scan of the child’s birth certificate in the application, this period is extended by two years for each child;
• scans of materials confirming scientific activities referred to in the resumé or CV; no more than two complete scans of articles or chapters in joint publications, considered the most important; other candidate’s publications shall be confirmed with scans of title pages;
• declaration about the command of English to the extent enabling the education in the School (C2 level);
• a scan of the declaration of the supervisor candidate about their willingness to be the candidate’s supervisor and the number of doctoral students, for whom they are appointed as the supervisor; in addition, the candidate may attach a scan of the opinion of the planned supervisor and the opinions of other researchers about the candidate and his or her scientific activity or research project proposal;
• one photograph of the candidate’s face, allowing their identification;
• declaration whether the candidate is or was a doctoral student or participant of doctoral studies, has, or has had, a doctoral dissertation procedure or a procedure for awarding a doctoral degree initiated and if yes – title of doctoral dissertation or the research project prepared by the candidate, as well as first name and surname of the academic tutor or the supervisor;
• declaration on familiarising themselves with the content of the Resolution [LINK], as well as Article 40 and Article 41 of the Code of Administrative Procedure;
• scanned transcripts of records of the graduate and postgraduate studies or the uniform Master’s degree studies, or equivalent documents (e.g. diploma supplement).

Additionally, the candidate shall be obliged to submit a translation of titles of scientific achievements. In justified instances, the Recruitment Coordinator or chairperson or the secretary of the selection team may request the candidate to submit a translation of other documents or materials included in the application within the time frame set.

Evaluation criteria and method:

The committee evaluates candidates on a point scale, taking into account the competence to perform specific tasks in the research project and the candidate’s previous scientific achievements, on this basis, developing a ranking of candidates according to the following criteria:

• competencies to perform specific tasks in a research project (70% of the final grade):

3 points very good;

2 points good;

1 point weak;

0 points no competence.

• candidate’s scientific achievements, including publications in reputable publishing houses/scientific journals (30% of the final grade):

4 outstanding points;

3 points very good;

2 points good;

1 point weak;

0 points no scientific achievements.