PhD Position in Contemporary Travel Writing

The PhD in Contemporary Travel Writing will be part of the research project ‘Writing Travel in the Twenty-First Century: Mobility and Authenticity in the Planetary Emergency (MAP)’ situated at The Department of Language and Culture at the University of Southern Denmark and funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF).

The position is expected to begin on 1 February 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The central tasks of MAP are to examine the many and varied forms of non-fiction text that travel in the twenty-first century has engendered, and to analyse those features which mark this corpus as distinct from and/or continuous with earlier ways of ‘writing travel’. Traditional print formats – travel writing books, essays, articles, letters and postcards – have undergone radical change as a range of digital media and forms (microblogging, texting, podcasts, video essays), as well as platforms (Instagram, YouTube, Travelblog, TikTok), have altered the manner in which experiences and ideas of travel are narrated, distributed, and consumed. Similarly, while colonial, gendered and racialized travel writing tropes have been challenged or (at times) eliminated in current travel media, other features of earlier travel discourses linger on (‘authentic’ travel, adventure, exoticism, tourism).

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