Dear all,

I have just started a new position as Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and I am looking for researchers with a range of interests and expertise in language, computing and the digital world. I currently have 8 jobs to offer at postdoctoral level or at doctoral level. If you are interested in an exciting position, please do read on. If you know of potential candidates, please do share widely!

What are the jobs about?

Join a team of researchers who will be tackling an ambitious programme of innovative research looking at various aspects of language in today´s digital world. Specific project strands will develop computational, corpus, and statistical methods and software, topic-focused projects will be in digital environmental humanities, digital literary and cultural history, digitally supported storytelling and creative writing. In your cover letter, please specify which of these focus areas you are applying for. Depending on your qualifications and experience there are different options of appointment.

Type of positions

PhD positions are for up to 3 years (65% or 100%) Postdoctoral positions are initially for 2 years (100%), with the opportunity for extension after successful completion of that period.

For more information see: https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/doctoral-or-postdoctoral-researchers-in-digital...

Application deadline

17 May 2024

How to apply

I´m very happy to take informal enquiries at this email address.

Please send your application to dhss-kontakt@fau.demailto:dhss-kontakt@fau.de (in PDF format, as a single document). The application has to include a cover letter (stating the area of focus that you are applying for), an academic CV, and evidence of all relevant qualifications. The first round of interviews will likely take place in the week beginning 3rd June.

All the best Michaela

-- Professor Michaela Mahlberg https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities Head of Department Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/ Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberghttps://www.fau.de/ Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 91052 Erlangen, Germany Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl Host of the Life and Language Podcast https://anchor.fm/michaela-mahlberg/ @MichaMahlberghttps://twitter.com/MichaMahlberg https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/