Job description

A temporary position as Researcher (SKO 1109) at the postdoctoral level is available at the Department of Literature, European Languages and Area Studies (ILOS), University of Oslo.

The position is funded by the ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant DESCENSURA: A Comparative Study of Poetry under Censorship in the Iberian Dictatorships ), a five-year project ) led by Principal Investigator Álvaro Seiça at the University of Oslo.

DESCENSURA investigates the legacy of literary censorship under the New State dictatorships of Portugal’s “Estado Novo” and Francoist Spanish “Nuevo Estado.” Addressing the two longest dictatorships in Western Europe’s 20th century, the project compares how these regimes implemented their propaganda and censorship plans, and it contrasts them with how writers resisted and collaborated within their state apparatus.

It further investigates how books were censored and marked by censors from a holis...