Saint Louis University, a Jesuit Catholic institution dedicated to education, research, healthcare and service, seeks applicants for a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, beginning 1 September 2014. The Fellow will reside in the University’s Center for Digital Humanities, where they will conduct his/her own research. They will also assist in the general tasks of the Center including workshops, seminars and lectures. Finally, the Fellow may teach one course in Digital Humanities in the spring semester.

The Center for Digital Humanities is a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Pius XII Memorial Library. It supports the disciplines of English, History, Philosophy, Modern and Classical Languages, Theological Studies as well as Library and Information Studies.

The Center has a close connection to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and also coordinates its activities with the Walter J Ong Center for Language, Media and Culture. For the last four years, the Center’s research focus has been pre-modern manuscript studies and is currently developing a number of image/text annotation systems.

The Center welcomes candidates who are pursuing research in this or commensurate fields. In addition to the general research resources of the University, the Fellow will have access to a software developer should the research project require it. The Center will also provide some limited research and travel funds throughout the year.

General enquiries about the position may be directed to Dr James Ginther (ginthej@slu.edu).

Review of Applications will begin 1 May 2014 until the position is filled.

Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a description of the research project (2 pages maximum), and the names of three referees. All submissions must be sent as email attachments to Dr. James R. Ginther, Director, Center for Digital Humanities (digitalhumanities@slu.edu).

Saint Louis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

Professor Elisabeth Dutton invites applications for the following two positions at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, to work on the Early Drama at Oxford (EDOX) project: for more information about this project see: http://edox.org.uk

The successful candidates will between them be expected to contribute to EDOX’s work of researching, translating, staging, editing, and creating online films and editions of plays originally written and performed in Oxford in the late-medieval and early modern periods.

The posts will be based at the University of Fribourg and will include research time in Oxford. (The salaries will be on the highly competitive Swiss academic scale). The doctoral assistant will be expected to write a doctoral thesis on some aspect of Early Drama at Oxford during the appointment.

For the doctoral assistant position, candidates must have an MA degree or equivalent in either medieval or early modern English, or Classics

For the post-doctoral position, candidates must have

1. a completed and awarded doctorate in medieval /early modern literature
2. an excellent research profile in some aspect of early theatre

For both positions, the following are also desirable:

• experience in administration and conference organization
• expertise in web page design and/or text encoding
• experience in archival research
• practical experience in theatre and/or film
• excellent Latin

Although the English domain functions in English, a level of French and/or German which would facilitate communication with other domains might be an advantage (it is not essential, however).

Applications should include a CV, and a covering letter explaining interest in the positions, and should clearly indicate to which post they relate.

Please send applications by email to Prof. Elisabeth Dutton: elisabeth.dutton@unifr.ch

APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 10 2014

The National University of Ireland, Galway is seeking to fill 5 full-time, fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher positions for the ERC-funded project ‘The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550-1700’ (RECIRC), led by Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan, Principal Investigator.

Full details, including how to apply, may be found at: http://www.nuigalway.ie/about-us/jobs

Applications close on 14 May 2014.

The British Library is pleased to be able to offer an internship in the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts section of the History and Classics Department for a doctoral or post-doctoral student in history, history of art, medieval language or other relevant subject.

The intern will be involved in all aspects of the work of the Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts section, including responding to enquiries, providing talks for students and patrons, selecting and presenting manuscripts for display in our exhibition gallery, assisting in exhibition preparation, and cataloguing, thereby gaining insight into various curatorial duties and aspects of collection care. During the internship at the Library, the intern will enjoy privileged access to printed and manuscript research material, and will work alongside specialists with wide-ranging and varied expertise.

A major focus of the internship will be to enhance the online Digitised Manuscripts and Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts websites by creating and supplementing catalogue entries for medieval manuscripts and accompanying images, working under the supervision of the Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts. The internship will also provide an opportunity for the student to assist in presenting manuscripts to a general audience in our major Magna Carta anniversary exhibition, exhibitions in the Sir John Ritblat Treasures Gallery, and to develop research skills in medieval and Renaissance history and art history.

The programme is only open to students who are engaged actively in research towards, or have recently completed a PhD in a subject area relevant to the study of pre-1600 illuminated or other medieval manuscripts, who have eligibility to work in the UK.

The term of internship is either full time (36 hours per week) for six months, or part time for twelve months, depending on how many hours the successful candidate can offer. Applicants are asked to specify which work pattern they would prefer in the application. The salary is £8.80 per hour. The internship will start in July 2014 after relevant security clearances are obtained.

The selection process will include questions about the date, origin, and decoration of a particular manuscript to be shown at the interview.

For further information about the position, please contact Kathleen Doyle, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at Kathleen.Doyle@bl.uk.

To apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers quoting vacancy ref: COL000490 and upload a CV and Cover Letter. The Cover Letter should include answers to the following three questions:

1. Please give examples of your experience in cataloguing medieval manuscripts.
2. Please provide examples of your experience in writing about your research for a general audience.
3. Please give an example of how you have adapted your own communicating style to deal with different people and situations.

Closing Date: Thursday 15th May 2014
Interview Date: Monday 2nd June 2014

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences And Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge has announced a new constellation of projects centred in the Early Modern period.

Eight new post-doctoral fellows will be appointed. Recruitment is now open for the first six of these posts.

Three post-doctoral fellows, each for 4.5 years, will be working on a new project on Genius before Romanticism, led by Alexander Marr from the Department of History of Art and funded by the European Research Council.

Three further 4.5 year fellowships will be offered to work on the theological, natural philosophical and economic strands of a second project funded by the European Research Council, on ‘Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the place of literature’. This is led by Subha Mukherji from the Faculty of English, joint host of this project (with CRASSH).

The seventh postdoctoral fellow will be appointed for 3.5 years on the legal strand of the Epistemic Intersections project.

The eighth postdoctoral fellow, a three-year position, will be working on digital ways of exploring the textual and visual archive of the era as part of the work of a new digital initiative at CRASSH.

The projects are interdisciplinary and collaborative, and will coincide with CRASSH’s interdisciplinary programme in collaboration with McGill University, on Conversion in the Early Modern period (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada), which will have annual visiting fellows and a seminar series. They will be further complemented by CRASSH’s highly successful research groups with an early-modern focus, such as the ‘Things’ seminars in material culture and the ‘Seeing Things’ programme, a collaboration between CRASSH and the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.

Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies would like to invite applications from graduate students and early career researchers to join the editorial committee for its second volume, to be published in 2015.

Ceræ is a peer-reviewed Australasian journal of medieval and early modern studies. Administered from the University of Western Australia with the generous support of faculty and staff, the journal is directed by a committee of interstate and international graduate students and early career researchers united in our commitment to open-access publishing, the possibilities of the digital humanities, and to forging a strong community of medieval and early modern scholars in the region. Ceræ accepts manuscripts from any discipline related to medieval and early modern studies, including submissions with accompanying audio-visual material.

• The role of an editorial committee member includes:
• Conducting preliminary reviews of articles to assess their suitability for peer-review
• Copyediting articles which have been accepted for publication
• Participating and voting in decisions concerning the direction of the journal
• Participating in the Ceræ AGM
• The opportunity to apply for roles on the executive committee when these become available
• The ability to attend fortnightly executive meetings, either in skype or in person, if desired

For further information, please contact editorcerae@gmail.com or follow the Ceræ blog at ceraejournal.com for news, updates and articles of interest.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medieval Art or Architectural History
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral or more senior research appointment, July 1, 2014 -June 30, 2015. The successful candidate will teach one course per semester, subject to approval by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty (which might be an introductory survey in the period of specialization and/or a seminar/upper-division class), interact with a diverse group of scholars, and have the opportunity to undertake and/or complete a research project. He/she will be expected to be in residence during the term of his/her appointment. Scholars must have completed all requirements for the PhD (including successful defense of the dissertation) by the time of appointment.

Applications will be reviewed beginning April 15, 2014 and will continue until position is filled. Applicants should apply online at https://jobs.princeton.edu and submit a CV, cover letter, statement of research, and names and contact information for 3 references. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

University of Leeds – Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Italian Studies
Oral culture, manuscript and print in early modern Italy, 1450-1700

Fixed term for 15 months, available from 1 March 2014, to cover for a period of maternity leave.

The School invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within a project funded by the European Research Council. The project website is http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/italianvoices

The project, whose Principal Investigator is Professor Brian Richardson, started work in June 2011 and ends in May 2015. It is investigating how oral culture in early modern Italy related to written culture and how far it was independent of writing. It focuses on four areas: social performance, politics, religion, and linguistic usage. Research encompasses spaces such as courts, council chambers, churches, academies, towns, the countryside, and households; men and women of all social classes; and contexts including ceremonial and ritual events, oratory, public and private performance, and scripted and improvised entertainments. It also studies the cultural functions of the exceptionally wide spectrum of languages used throughout the peninsula.

Four Postdoctoral Research Fellows have already been appointed and are carrying out research on: the performance of texts (including those related to politics) in non-elite culture by professional performers and others; the oral diffusion of orthodox and reformed religious thought; the functions and status of the varieties of language used in Italian oral culture. You will be expected to work on any aspect of the use of orality that is relevant to the project and complements research being carried out already.

With a PhD with specialisation in an aspect of Italian studies (preferably already obtained; otherwise to be obtained before the start date of the post), the applicant will also have experience of studying Renaissance/early modern Italian culture and/or history.

For full details and to apply, please visit: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AIF701/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-in-italian-studies

Closing Date: 6 March 2014

Visiting Assistant Professor Medieval European History,
Amherst College, Massachusetts

The Department of History at Amherst College invites applications for a one-year full-time Visiting Assistant Professor in Medieval European History, beginning July 1, 2014. We are seeking a person prepared to teach a range of courses (two in each semester) and advise honors students. Candidates must have the Ph.D. degree in hand or all requirements for the degree fulfilled by the start of the appointment. Strong commitments to scholarship and teaching a diverse undergraduate student body are essential. Please send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, two letters of reference, a writing sample, and syllabi of two proposed courses to:

Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee,
Department of History,
P.O. Box 2254,
Amherst College,
Amherst, MA 01002-5000.

Review of applications will begin on March 20, 2014, and continue until the position is filled.

Amherst College is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women, persons of colour, and persons with disabilities to apply. The administration, faculty, and student body are committed to attracting qualified candidates from groups currently under-represented on campus.

Contact: Mrs. Rhea Cabin, History Department Coordinator, ricabin@amherst.edu