PhD Position: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (StoryPharm), deadline 15 December 2024

The StoryPharm project is pleased to announce 4 three-year Special Scientist PhD in Medieval Art History with a generous research allowance in an international, multi- partner EU project, employment beginning between June and August 2025.

The StoryPharm project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Networks – Grant Agreement 101169114, is announcing a total of 19 PhD fellowships within the training programme “Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities” (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/).

The focus of the project will be on premodern narratives and images involving medicine, health, and healing. These will be studied from a transdisciplinary and comparative perspective, across linguistic and cultural borders. 

This international doctoral network, funded by the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie program, involves the universities of Cyprus (leading institution), Salerno, Bamberg, Lund, and Cardiff. It aims to recruit 19 medieval studies researchers with excellent salaries.

In particular, we would like to draw attention to the positions related to Medieval Art History:

StoryPharm Fellow 7: “Images of Christ’s Miraculous Healings between Medical Awareness and Social Inclusion (9th–11th c. CE)” (Salerno, Italy, Project 2).

• The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno) and Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg).

StoryPharm Fellow 11: “The Pictorial Narratives of Herbal Medicine in Dioscorides’ De materia medica” (Lund, Sweden, Project 2).

• The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Christian Høgel (Lund) and Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg).

StoryPharm Fellow 14: “Ecologies of Healing: Visual Storytelling in Medieval Medical Manuscripts and Herbals” (Bamberg, Germany, Project 3).

• The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Katharina Schüppel (Bamberg) and Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno).

StoryPharm Fellow 15: “The Healthy Place: Architecture and Images for Healing Devotional Experiences in Southern Italy in a Mediterranean Context” (Salerno, Italy, Project 3).

• The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Maddalena Vaccaro (Salerno) and Maria Parani (Cyprus).

Applications, including the submission of a research proposal on the indicated topics, will be accepted from October 15 to December 15, 2024, according to the guidelines in the calls.

We also encourage you to consult the General Call, which outlines all the individual projects, including research in historical, philological, and literary disciplines, as well as Byzantine studies.

All calls are available on the dedicated project page, and we remain personally available for any clarification:
https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/vacancies/
Maddalena Vaccaro, University of Salerno: mavaccaro@unisa.it
Katharina Schüppel, University of Bamberg: katharina.schueppel@uni-bamberg.de