Lectureship in Old English

See http://www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacancies/academic/full-details-104447-en.html

Job Posted: 30 Jul 2010
Closing Date for Applications: 13 Aug 2010
School: School of English
Contract Type: fixed term whole-time
Job Type: Academic
Salary: 35,357 – 56,967
The School of English at UCC wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Old English. This will be a two year appointment, from September 2010 to September 2012.

The post will be offered on the Lectureship scale (35,357 – 56,967), depending on qualifications and current salary. The lowest salary to which an appointee with a PhD may be appointed is the 5th point of the scale, 43,708.

The appointee will have an expertise in Old English language, literature, and culture evidenced by a completed doctorate in a relevant area and a strong publication record. He/she will have a demonstrated ability to teach the grammar, language, and literature of the Anglo-Saxon period at all levels, from first-year undergraduate through to MA and doctoral supervision. The candidate should also have experience teaching Old English to small and large groups. Preference will be given to candidates with an interest in one or more of the following:

* The interconnections of literary, visual, and material cultures of the period 600-1400.

* Manuscript studies and the new histories of the book, including palaeography and codicology.

* Digital humanities.

* The representation of the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval periods in later writing and culture, including film.

* Critical theory and its application to Old English writing.

* Old Norse and/or Old Icelandic language and literature.

Experience in the following is also desirable:

* The delivery of undergraduate lectures.
* Innovative approaches to teaching earlier period literatures to undergraduates, especially those learning ab initio. * MA teaching and dissertation supervision.
* PhD supervision.

A record of applications for external research funding, or the willingness to do so, commensurate with the level of the post and the experience of the applicant, will also be expected.

For a full list of duties and selection criteria please see the particulars of post below.

For further information on the School of English, please see http://www.ucc.ie/en/english

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Andrew King (a.king@ucc.ie ) or Professor James Knowles (j.knowles@ucc.ie ).

Please note: Interviews will be held in early September 2010, and the appointee will be expected to be available to teach by late September 2010.

To Apply:

Completed application forms must be returned to:

Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, Ireland.

Tel: + 353 21 4903073 / Email: recruitment@per.ucc.ie / Fax + 353 21 4271568

Closing date: 12 pm, Friday 13th August 2010

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent upon University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector

Posted by: Orla Murphy (o.murphy@ucc.ie).

Manuscripts Specialist (Staff Research Associate III)

Under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator Professor Patrick Geary and the Project Manager Dr. Julian Hendrix, the Research Associate will be responsible for directing and performing archival and library research, and for identifying and analyzing the linguistic, orthographic, paleographic and textual features of some 168 medieval manuscripts for the research project “Creation of Virtual Libraries of the Carolingian Monasteries of St. Gall and Reichenau.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this project will make accessible online digital images, descriptions, and contextual data of ninth-century manuscripts from libraries at St. Gall and Reichenau. The Research Associate will assist the Project Manager with the development of XML
templates and user interfaces for the project’s manuscript website. The Research Associate will also assist the Project Manager in creating descriptions and indices of the manuscripts’ contents as well as be responsible for writing thematic essays highlighting significant elements of the manuscript collection for publication on the project website.

Candidates must have a PhD in some area of medieval studies and strong Latin and German, as well as extensive knowledge of Carolingian paleography and codicology, and experience working with early medieval manuscripts. Experience working with XML markup and web design is strongly preferred.

This is a two-year (07/01/10 – 06/30/12), grant-funded position. The availability of the position is subject to the grant being awarded. In addition to completing the online application at hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=56376 (you can not be considered for the position without applying on-line), please send a copy of your letter of application (cover letter) and CV to the project PI, Professor Patrick Geary, by email to geary@ucla.edu.

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Julian Hendrix
Staff Research Associate
UCLA
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
302 Royce Hall
Box 94551485
Los Angeles CA
90095-1485

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

Digital Humanities Specialist, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), Dublin, Ireland
1 Year Fixed Term Contract

Applications are invited for a one year fixed term contract position of Digital Humanities Specialist to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing, and hosting a digital repository of humanities research. This joint national platform, funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, is being constructed for the RIA and its partners to provide for the building, coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level.

Reporting to the DHO Director, the Digital Humanities Specialist will join a team to promote and support the use of advanced computing techniques as applied to the humanities in Ireland.

Further information and details of the application process are available at http://dho.ie/vacancies/#dhs

The closing date for applications is Monday 24th May 2010 at 4 p.m.

The Royal Irish Academy is an equal opportunities employer

Posted by: Roberto Rosselli Del Turco (rosselli at ling dot unipi dot it)

[Apologies for multiple postings; please circulate as appropriate.]

2 Phd Positions involving speech and text analysis are open within TCD.

http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/

The bursaries include payment of fees, some research costs, and a stipend of 16K per annum. The funding covers four years of study within a structured PhD program. This funding is equivalent to that provided by IRCSET awards.

Position 1: Speaking the 1641 Depositions

This innovative project under the theme of  “Digital Humanities and Sustainable Records” will attract candidates who are interested in independent and advanced research linking speech synthesis and important historical documents. It will involve application of advanced linguistic and statistical methods, using the latest tools and technologies, for the analysis and rendering into speech of large bodies of annotated historical text. The project will last for four years and research costs, a stipend, and coverage of fees, etc., will be offered. Successful applicants will have a background in either history or computing. They will have keen analytical skills and will join a small team of researchers with similar interests in the way people speak and present information. They will be especially interested in expressing personality through speech synthesis, and in attempting to render historical texts in order to express character through the synthesised voices.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB01)

Position 2: Technology for harmonising interpersonal communication

We explore how contemporary modes of interaction, typically at a distance via electronic devices, can be supplemented to support the sorts of information flow and inference that evolution has endowed humans sensitivity to in face-to-face communications. The research entails that various prototype applications be constructed, deployed and analyzed. A successful candidate will have demonstrable expertise in computer programming, preferably with experience of end-user application delivery. The candidate will be engaged in the delivery of software alongside performance of quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic data. The background research topic is in discerning sentiment and other non-propositional content of textual communications (such as text messages) and projecting the same through appropriate vocal synthesis. Prior expertise in text and dialogue analysis as well as speech synthesis will be an advantage. Candidates should be comfortable with computational theoretical frameworks for syntax and formal semantics, as well as statistically oriented approaches to language analysis.

Further details:
http://www.tcd.ie/Graduate_Studies/InnovationBursaries/
Apply for course: http://www.pac.ie/tcd (code — TRB08)

The Bentham Papers Transcription Initiative is an ambitious and ground-breaking project which will increase access to and encourage user participation with the papers of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (17481832, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/). We are now hiring for two postdoc research associates. Both posts are available immediately and funded for one year in the first instance.

Research Associate: The post holder will co-ordinate the various aspects of the project. They will write up the documentation for the amateur transcribers, run the publicity campaign which will recruit them, act as moderator of the submitted transcripts, and help to draft the qualitative user study and the final report.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129607 for further information.

Research Associate (IT): The post holder will be working with the other Research Associate and the web developer to create an attractive and intuitive interface. They will take responsibility for the mark-up of the existing transcripts from MS Word into TEI compliant XML, link the digital images to the existing database catalogue and the transcription tool, and help draft user documentation and a qualitative user study.
See https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1129779 for further information.

Closing date for both applications is 8th March 2010. Please get in touch with Philip Schofield (p.schofield@ucl.ac.uk) or Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk) if you have any queries, or want further information.

Posted by: Melissa Terras (m.terras@ucl.ac.uk).