Mellon Creative Writing Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021, Rhodes University, South Africa

Publish Date: Sep 26, 2020

Deadline: Nov 30, 2020

Mellon Creative Writing Postdoctoral Fellowship

Value: R210 000 per annum

Duration: 12 months

The Creative Writing Section in the School of Languages and Literatures hereby invites applications for this Fellowship in 2021, under a prestigious grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to advance Creative Writing research (Creative Writing Pedagogy/History, African Languages and Creative Writing, Creativity, Creativity and Education, etc.)

The ideal candidate will also be involved in our intensive course focusing on hybrid genres, multilingualism, innovation and experimentation in fiction and poetry.

Applications close on 30 November 2020 at 12:00  

Candidates who would like to be considered for this Fellowship should submit their CV and an academic transcript, together with a letter of motivation of not more than two typed/printed A4 pages via email, to Mr Paul Wessels and Dr Hleze Kunju, by the deadline listed above.  

CV should provide information on the following; 

  • Conferences attended (indicate names of presentations given)
  • Peer reviewed publications
  • Prizes won
  • Leadership positions held
  • Languages spoken
  • Citizenship

The successful candidate will be resident in Makhanda (Grahamstown) for the duration of the Fellowship.

 

Closing date: 30 November 2020

For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.


This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:

https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway//postdoctoralfellows/

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