Position as Ph.D. (SKO 1017) is available at the Department of Philosophy, History of Art and Classics (IFIKK) at the Faculty of Humanities and is linked to the faculty’s PhD program, the line of music and theater studies, aesthetics, art and ideas.. The position is available for a period of three years.

The Ph.D project should focus on Edvard Munch and the wider set of contexts in which his artistic production took place. It is vital that the project deliver innovative approaches that may forge new directions for research on Munch.

Several generations of scholars at the University of Oslo have made significant contributions to the research on and around Edvard Munch. The art historical department at IFIKK aims to keep this traditional alive by highlighting Munch and Modernity as one of their strategic research areas.

For years research on Edvard Munch has been dominated by biographical approaches primarily focused on the relation between Munch’s life and work.  Today, Munch research at the University of Oslo places greater emphasis on the wider range of national and international contexts in which his work was produced and received, both with respect to its relation to other modern artists as well as to various social, political and aesthetic fields. In recent years, art historians at IFIKK have increased its international exchanges connected with Munch research and have contributed to a number of publications and curatorial projects both outside and inside Norway. The Ph.D fellow will take part in IFIKK’s plans to expand and deepen its research on Munch and Munch’s modernity and should contribute to the ongoing development of an international network of researchers devoted to this field of study. Close collaboration with the Munch Museum and the National Museum of Art, Norway is also an important component in this plan of action.

The successful candidate is expected to affiliate with the existing research milieu or network and to contribute to the further development of this.

Candidates who are accepted must participate in the Faculty of Humanities’ researcher education programme (cf. regulations and supplementary provisions for the faculty’s researcher education) and must also engage in the designated research activities on a 100 percent basis. The designated aim of the project is to complete a doctoral dissertation to be defended at a public disputation for the Ph.D.-degree.

Qualifications and Personal Skills :

In assessing the applications, special emphasis will be placed on the quality of the project description and on the assumed academic and personal ability on the part of the candidates to complete the dissertation within the given time frame. The short-listed candidates may be called for an interview at the University of Oslo.

Qualifications :

A Master degree or equivalent in an area relevant to the topic of the doctoral dissertation.