Duke University Offers Two Post-Docs in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist (GSF) Studies invites applications for two one-year residential postdoctoral fellowships for the 2022-2023 academic year; one will be focused on Black Feminist Studies and the Arts, while the other will be focused on Feminist Theory & Imperialism.

One fellow will focus on the intersections of Black Feminist Studies and the Arts, broadly defined. Duke seeks candidates with interdisciplinary training in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Black Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and/or Performance Studies, and with expertise in Black feminist studies. The fellow will have two primary responsibilities: (1) to help imagine and organize the 2023 Black Feminist Theory summer institute at Duke, and (2) to envision and facilitate a Black feminist creativity practice, performance, and/or lab (this could take multiple forms, ranging from an undergraduate course to art/performance workshops, depending on the fellow’s interests). These duties will take roughly half the fellow’s time, with the other half left open for the fellow’s research. The fellow will receive full support for making connections with other scholars and joining campus intellectual life, as well as mentorship from GSF faculty.

Please submit applications electronically by March 14, 2022. To learn more and apply, visit Academic Jobs Online.

The other fellow will focus on the 2022-2023 theme year, Feminist Theory & Imperialism. Duke seeks candidates with interdisciplinary training and research in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Queer and Sexuality Studies, Decolonization Studies, Race & Imperialism Studies, Indigenous Studies, and allied fields. They welcome applicants interested in the relationships between Anglo-American feminist theory and imperialism in its many modern historical and contemporary modalities. They are especially interested in scholars who have taken seriously non-Anglo-American sites of feminist and sexuality theorization, including in socialist and communist settings, as well as feminist critiques that originate from Global South sites. Research may examine cultural, economic, and intellectual imperialism, which is often the focus of feminist and sexual theorization and critique in many parts of the world, as well as leftist movements as sites of feminist and sexual theorizing and critique. Beyond the above, research areas may include militarization and permanent war, settler-colonialism, labor movements, comparative racialization, racial capitalism, sexual criminalization, border policing and citizenship, and ecological entanglements in relation to feminist theory & imperialism. The fellow is expected to participate in an in-person themed postdoctoral and graduate student seminar in fall 2022 and teach an undergraduate course in spring 2023.

Please submit applications electronically by March 14, 2022. To learn more and apply, visit Academic Jobs Online.