Dear all,
Please see the information on job opportunities below. I’d be grateful if you could share with potential candidates.
Where: The Text & Language Lab in the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is recruiting up to five outstanding postdoctoral and doctoral researchers. Join a highly collaborative team pursuing an ambitious research agenda on various aspects of language in today’s digital world. Led by Alexander von Humboldt-Professor Michaela Mahlberg, the lab offers an inspiring environment where curious researchers work across disciplines and produce results with clear, real-world relevance.
What: Depending on your qualifications and experience there are different options of appointment, which include opportunities to make a contribution to the teaching of the Department. • PhD positions are for up to 4 years (75% or 100%), initial contract 1 year with extension after successful completion of first year • Postdoctoral positions for up to 4.5 years (100 %), initial contract 2 years, after successful completion of that period there is the opportunity to extend the positions until 31.03.2031
The positions:
1) Postdoctoral researcher with focus on web application development and CLiC (clic-fiction.com)
Specific responsibilities will include:
• Corpus compilation • Modular software development • Leading on the organisation of training workshops and dissemination activities • Developing training materials for workshops • Producing documentation • Collaboration with external software developers • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports
2) Postdoctoral researcher with focus on experimental methods
Specific responsibilities will include:
• Designing and running experiments that focus on the engagement with texts and tools (reader response, surveys, interviews, eye-tracking, Human-AI interaction) • Analysing research data • Leading on the organisation of training workshops and dissemination activities • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports
3) Doctoral researcher - PhD Project: Fictional people and the climate crisis
The project will be situated within a research context that deals with textual patterns of characterization with a focus on the relationship between fictional people and their environment. This environment will cover both the natural and the built environment. The textual patterns will be studied on the basis of data from a variety of texts (including climate and science fiction). Methods of analysis will draw on computational textual analysis. The specific research questions of the project will be developed together with the successful candidate.
Specific responsibilities will include:
• Text and data analysis • Corpus design and compilation • Working as part of a team, with the responsibility to manage specific work packages and lead clear sub-projects (including publications and grant application development) • Managing project tasks such as supervising student assistants and providing progress reports
More detail on required qualifications and how to apply: https://www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/621d437fb9ed15d519420c8046d50aa9431c66ec0
Deadline: 24 July 2026
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me Michaela
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Professor Michaela Mahlberg
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Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor of Digital Humanitieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkKhcwvWgI
Head of Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.dhss.phil.fau.de%2f&c=E,1,IJJi68RrdRBvCwCarHSMYk4dbE9xq1tiVV9J1YduIJnt4EZmg1GXzjbZUw1wPH1X628IcX7VFHvHrv1MZ6s99nXrVPIBKtaMcukjD4n-KnSGnw,,&typo=1
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Honorary Professor of Corpus Linguistics University of Birmingham, UKhttps://www.birmingham.ac.uk/
Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbenjamins.com%2fcatalog%2fijcl&c=E,1,nYAlCdj8IvTymAmpGokiUtEzxllST_wNogFdKtpOWT8aXdCMNqPiwpdNpJLcJqd5W2fbkqVElLUQsxcsNN4UdJUwKF9KC3vA-lWbNuOEijywOICQgc2f_2q0Zer-&typo=1
President of the Dickens Societyhttps://dickenssociety.org/
Host of the Life and Language Podcast https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/
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Michaela Mahlberg