Born Digital: Towards A Glossary of Digital Narratives

• Master's students (MA/MEd.) and Ph.D. candidates, that are enrolled at the university of Stuttgart  or at the university of Bergen in the Literary Studies and/or Digital Humanities departments and are interested in electronic literatures and digital narratives. Additionally they should be interested in contributing to the Living Glossary for Digital Narrative.
  

Students that are already working on their Master or Ph.D. theses are also welcome to apply.

• Exchange semester 5 months
• Research stays at least 3 months and maximum 5 months

Successful applicants will be granted a Baden-Württemberg stipend of 1.100,- euro/month during their stay in Bergen. The stipend is financed by the Baden Württemberg Stiftung (https://www.bw-stipendium.de/de/).

Successful applicants will have the opportunity to contribute to the Living Glossary of Digital Narratives, an online, open-access, dictionary on electronic literature.

At the university of Bergen:

• Scholarship holders can take classes by the department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (https://www.uib.no/en/lle/courses ). They will also be granted access to the resources of the Center for Digital Narrative (https://www.uib.no/en/cdn) and they can partake in events and research colloquims organized by the Center. Furthermore attendance at the (online) colloquiums and meetings of the Born Digital projects is expected.
  

At the university of Stuttgart:

• At Stuttgart University, students will have the opportunity to participate in courses offered in English and American Studies (https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/en/departments/english-literatures/teaching/), which are all taught in English, and be integrated in events organised by the Born Digital research group, which will be jointly established by Bergen and Stuttgart.Advanced MA/MEd students working on their research theses will have access to research colloquia, be able to present their projects in joint (online) colloquia and workshops, and be co-supervised by colleagues from Stuttgart.

• Letter of motivation (maximum 2 pages), which should state your interest for electronic literatures.
• CV
• Recent transcript of records
  

All applications should be in English. Please send your application documents to  sibylle.baumbach@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de in one .pdf file.

Deadline for applications for stays in 2025 is the September 01, 2024.

Further information about the project and the application for a stipend can be found here:

If you have further questions please contact Prof. Sibylle Baumbach
(sibylle.baumbach@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de).

The Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM supports the international exchange of students and vocationally qualified people. Since 2001, it has enabled more than 28,000 young people from Baden-Württemberg to gain experience abroad and allowed scholarship holders from other countries to visit Baden-Württemberg. Approximately 1,500 young people receive a Baden-Württemberg-STIPENDIUM each year.

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