Call for Applications: Communications Fellows for the K-SAA, 2022/23

The K-SAA is inviting applications for three fellowships. The fellowships are: two Communications Fellows and one Keats-Shelley Journal Fellow (details below). 

These fellows will be in post for a period of one year, beginning August 1, 2022. To apply: please send an academic CV and personal statement (1 page) explaining why you are best placed to undertake the duties below to ksaacomm@gmail.com by July 8, 2022.  Please indicate in your application which fellowship you wish to apply for. Fellows will be awarded an honorarium for their time of $1000 USD paid in two $500 installments at the beginning and end of the fellowship term. Working hours and tasks will be flexible in order to ensure a balance alongside other work commitments. Applicants should be postgraduate or early-career researchers, have a strong interest in Romantic literature, and should have previously used social media for academic/professional purposes. They will be able to demonstrate their ability to write and edit academic blog content similar to what is currently presented on the K-SAA Blog. Experience using WordPress and editing websites is desirable. We’d especially like to hear from applicants who have ideas about how to expand our community on Twitter. This post is highly collaborative and you will also work closely with the other fellows as well as the Director of Communications to engage new audiences and present innovative content. The Communications Team is committed to anti-racist and inclusive practices. The cover letter should indicate applicants’ contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as their vision for promoting these values within the K-SAA community. We particularly welcome applications from BIPOC scholars 

Communications Fellowships x 2: Fellows will assist the Director of Communications and the K-SAA Board in engaging with, and creating content for, academic and non-academic communities interested in the Romantic period – especially those interested in the second generation of Romantic authors. This content will appear on the K-SAA Blog and social media. 

Keats-Shelley Journal Fellowship x 1: This fellow will also serve as liaison between the KSJ Editorial Team and K-SAA Comms Team. The position will help produce content for the journal’s online presence, including KSJ+, a platform that will supplement and highlight features from the journal’s print version. 

Duties may include: 

• To create engaging and informative online content designed to promote the understanding of the lives and works of the Keats-Shelley circles, most broadly understood, as well as those of many others writing in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Fellows will be knowledgeable and passionate about the Romantic period and interested in Romantic-era literature’s intersection with historical phenomena such as the Haitian and French Revolutions, the British empire, and slavery and abolition

• To set up regular appropriate content for the Twitter and Facebook feeds, applying relevant experience of using social media for professional purposes

• To respond to enquiries on social media

• To ensure that social media spaces remain anti-racist and inclusive

• To use WordPress to publish and edit blog posts for the K-SAA Blog

• To design and curate these blog posts, including soliciting authors from the academic and non-academic communities and other interested parties

• To develop the success of the above initiatives and to research further potential developments, and be willing to work independently and to maintain professional communications at all times

• To attend regular online meetings with the Director of Communications and be able to work collaboratively with colleagues to share ideas and modify technique(s) accordingly

• To learn and develop individual knowledge of the K-SAA and to create content that supports the association’s aims

Informal enquiries can be directed to Anna Mercer (mercera1@cardiff.ac.uk) and Mariam Wassif (mwassif@andrew.cmu.edu).

Please do get in touch if you have a question!