[Air-L] Jobs in Digital Culture: tenured associate prof + 3 PhD fellowships

[Jill Walker Rettberg]

I'm thrilled to announce that we are hiring! At the University of Bergen in Norway, we are looking for a fulltime, tenured associate professor in Digital Culture (with a specialisation in aesthetic aspects of digital culture, for instance in digital art, computer games, or electronic literature), and we also have three PhD fellowships in my ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life, which are for aesthetic/cultural research on machine vision in digital art, computer games, and narrative fiction (e.g. sci-fi novels, movies or digital fiction).

The application deadline for the associate professor position is May 27, and for the PhD fellowships, June 20. 

Associate Professor in Digital Culture:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151124/associate-professor-in-digital-culture-at-the-department-of-linguistic-literary-and-aesthetic-studies

PhD fellowship: Machine Vision in Narrative Fiction:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151191/phd-position-in-digital-culture-machine-vision-in-narrative-fiction
PhD fellowship: Machine Vision in Games and Digital Art:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/151132/phd-positions-in-digital-culture-machine-vision-in-games-and-digital-art

Norwegian jobs obviously come with welfare benefits such as universal health care, parental leave, heavily subsidised childcare and so on. Another important difference from many other countries is that PhD fellows are well-paid (abut €45000 or USD 55000 annually) and treated as employees  - but you MUST have a research-based MA before you can apply for a PhD fellowship. The games and art fellowships are three-year, research-only positions. The narrative fiction fellowship is four years with 25% teaching.

The associate professor position is in practice open rank, as you can apply for promotion for full professor every September, and the requirement for full professor is that you have a PhD plus publications equivalent to another PhD (e.g. a book that is not a revision of your dissertation). The salary mentioned in the ad is a minimum, and would be adjusted based on qualifications. The position is 44% teaching, 44% research and 8% admin.

Please share the ads with anyone you think might be interested! And I am more than happy to answer any questions you may have. 

Jill



Jill Walker Rettberg 
Professor of Digital Culture
University of Bergen
 
http://jilltxt.net