Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design is particularly interested in welcoming a postdoctoral fellow in art history who can contribute to our department’s support of Notre Dame’s quest to become a more global institution. The division of Art History has strengths in the art of the Americas and the Mediterranean. Notre Dame’s Raclin Murphy Museum of Art and the Hesburgh Libraries Rare Books and Special Collections offer excellent opportunities for research for art historians. The university’s centers and institutes such as the Medieval Institute, the Institute for Latino Studies, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies showcase the breadth of our faculty’s interdisciplinary scholarship.

The Department of English seeks a postdoctoral fellow whose scholarship complements the Department’s strengths in literary history, material and cultural studies, poetics, and the history of the novel. The fellow will join a Department that is steadily rising in visibility and disciplinary prominence, and whose robust departmental life includes endowed lectures, poetry and fiction readings, colloquium gatherings, area-specific lectures, and work-in-progress sessions. The postdoctoral fellow will receive mentorship support for publications, lecture organizing, research, and teaching from faculty who are highly committed to developing the discipline at every level of contribution.

We are especially attentive to research that takes up the varied literary traditions of the United States, such as but not exclusively Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, and African American literatures, across historical, cultural, and genre formations. Within the broad field of US literature, applicants might consider how their work speaks to our Department’s wide variety of methods, including but not limited to: translation studies; poetics; ecocriticism and the environmental humanities; literatures of migration; religion and literature; the historical intersections of scientific discovery and literary experimentation; drama and performance studies; sound studies and popular song; technologies of reading, writing, and circulation; creative writing; global Anglophone literature; and the history of the novel.

The Department of German, Slavic, and Eurasian Studies seeks an outstanding two-year postdoctoral fellow in German studies. Given our capacious conception of the field, we welcome applications from candidates working in language, literature, and culture as well as those who have received doctorates from other fields, such as history and philosophy. Scholars of any kind with a primary emphasis on German are encouraged to apply.

All areas of expertise within German studies are welcome, but we view the ideal candidate as someone who can work with multiple members of our faculty. Our strengths in German studies include, but are not limited to, medieval studies, literature and philosophy, German intellectual history, literature and history, German Jewish studies, literature and religion, literature of the early twentieth century, and film studies.

Our ambition is to be the best undergraduate-only German studies program in the United States. All our faculty members have strong research records, and we routinely receive among the University’s highest student evaluations of teaching. We have cultivated a welcoming and collegial culture to ensure that new members of our community are quickly integrated into the intellectual life of the Department. In addition, Notre Dame offers a wide range of working groups, workshops, and other fora—in the College of Arts and Letters and beyond—where scholars can present their work in dialogue with colleagues from a range of fields. While the position focuses on research development, Notre Dame fellows will have the opportunity to teach in order to help build a professional portfolio.

The Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the history of modern science or the integrated history and philosophy of modern science.

Applicants should have completed a PhD in the history of science or the philosophy of science, or be near completion. We especially welcome applications from scholars of the modern physical sciences (notably physics, chemistry, earth sciences, and astronomy), and projects with transnational or global scope. Research in harmony with initiatives supported by the University’s Strategic Framework is also welcomed. The selected fellow will have significant support and time to pursue independent research, writing, and scholarly networking, with the goal of generating significant progress toward a scholarly monograph. The successful applicant will also benefit from interactions with our program’s notable strength in the philosophy of modern physics, as well as our larger community of historians and philosophers of science and medicine. Teaching is not required, but there will be opportunities for teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the STS undergraduate minor and the HPS graduate program. The fellow will also participate in the intellectual life of the program, including attending our weekly colloquium talks in the first half of each semester, and the annual conference in the spring semester. This fellowship also offers faculty mentorship from senior historians of science and philosophers of science, dedicated office space, institutional IT support and library access.

The Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience is a vibrant interdisciplinary community of students and scholars sponsoring a wide array of campus and community programming, including an artist residence, talks from visiting scholars, workshops, book clubs, and film series. Since its inception in 2021, the IRR has dedicated its resources to examining the intersections of race, power, and systemic inequality. Global in scope and comparative in its critical approach, the IRR embraces the arts alongside traditional scholarship as a substantive means to examine race, attending both to the forms of oppression it produces and the unique identities and narratives it enables. This dual focus on rigorous critical inquiry and artistic production aligns directly with Notre Dame’s Strategic Framework. This fellowship provides an optimal intellectual ecosystem for an emerging scholar. It offers a crucial bridge between advanced graduate training and a tenure-track faculty career.

This opportunity is intended for exceptional early-career scholars whose work traverses traditional academic boundaries to examine these intersections and community resilience. We welcome applications from scholars whose innovative, cross-cutting methodologies span different disciplines represented by units in the College of Arts & Letters. The successful candidate will be expected to pursue a program of independent research and participate in the scholarly life of the faculty. The IRR leadership will serve as a co-mentor for the hosted scholar and secure a commitment from an affiliate faculty member from the fellow’s discipline to enhance their professional engagement with departmental peers and the field, as well as establish a tailored, two-year professional timeline at the outset of the fellowship. This timeline can include, if the fellow expresses interest, exploring teaching opportunities at the University. Over the course of the academic year, the candidate is expected to organize and host one formal academic event. This may take the form of a workshop, a guest lecture, a symposium, or a public-facing seminar related to their field of study.

The Department of Philosophy seeks an outstanding postdoctoral fellow whose research centers in a subfield of core analytic philosophy (metaphysics/epistemology/philosophy of mind/language). We are a leading research department, and with over 40 faculty working across nearly every subfield of philosophy. Our large and vibrant doctoral program also contributes to our rich and engaging intellectual community, which includes numerous reading groups, colloquia series, advanced seminars, and abundant discussion opportunities. In addition to our ethics postdoc program, we also welcome a large number of visiting faculty every year (12+ philosophers will be visiting through various programs and centers this year alone), and we have cultivated a welcoming and collegial culture to ensure that our new research community members are quickly integrated into the intellectual life of the department.

The successful applicant will hold their appointment in the Department of Philosophy, with office space provided in the department. The fellow will have the opportunity to teach and present their research to members of the department. They will also be assigned a faculty mentor from their subfield and will be welcome to participate in any activities taking place within the department and the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

The Program in Spanish (Iberian & Latin American Studies) at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to complement our existing research and course coverage–currently in Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, the US, and South America–while also adding novel, ground-breaking scholarship to our current program profile. The new areas of interest include Africa and the Philippines, the interplay of both the Atlantic and the Pacific trade routes; the rise of a Spanish-speaking population in Asia, as well as migration, economic and cultural flows from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa into Spain, and from Latin America and Europe to Asia. We seek scholars with innovative, theoretically informed approaches and areas of interest that challenge structures of power based on categories such as nation-state, class, race, ethnicity, religion, and gender across the literary, visual, and cultural productions of the Global Hispanophone. The postdoctoral fellow will be assigned a faculty mentor, who will support the scholar in her/his current research projects and the development of a career profile, and will introduce her/him to the students in the Department and working groups on campus such as the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, as well as initiatives such as the Environmental Humanities and the Race & Resilience initiatives on campus. The successful candidate will have opportunities to teach and collaborate with a wide range of students at the undergraduate and graduate level.

The distinctive strength of the Department of Theology is the combination of robust focus on historical traditions and attentiveness to contemporary issues. In order to continue and grow in this strength, we are seeking a postdoctoral fellow, with an area of specialization open. The successful candidate will have opportunities to teach and collaborate with a wide range of students, including undergraduates, students in our multiple master’s programs, and doctoral students. The successful fellow will also participate in our various faculty colloquia, organized by the different subdiscipline areas in our Department and benefit from dedicated faculty mentorship.