Postdoc (f/m/x) - Modern Greek Studies

Postdoc (f/m/x) - Modern Greek Studies

Your Tasks

- Contribute to building the project's digital corpus and edition: quality control of digitization and development of TEI P5-compliant transcription guidelines, co-supervising two student assistants

- Conduct in-depth historical and philological analysis of the Frangochiotika sources jointly with the PI

- Lead the project's micro-level analysis of vernacular piety, material culture, and community life, including applying computational text-analysis methods to the corpus

- Co-organize project workshops and conferences

- Produce a major study on the phonology and morphology of the Modern Greek vernacular based on the Frangochiotika corpus, and two co-authored peer-reviewed articles

Your Profile

Essential:

- PhD in Modern Greek Studies (History, Philology, Linguistics, Literary Studies, or a closely related field);

- demonstrated research expertise in Modern Greek literature and textual production of the early modern period and the centuries preceding the twentieth century;

- excellent to native-level command of Modern Greek (C1–C2), including the ability to work with historical varieties of the language;

- strong philological skills, including critical work with historical manuscripts and printed sources;

- fluent English

Desirable:

- Research engagement with vernacular Greek, language variation and change, and the historical development of Modern Greek;

- a publication record on multi-scriptural traditions in Greek;

- experience with transcription, transliteration, and textual editing;

- familiarity with Ottoman and/or Eastern Mediterranean contexts and relevant languages (Italian, French, Ottoman Turkish);

- familiarity with digital humanities methods (TEI/XML, digital editing, corpus development, metadata)

The successful candidate is expected to demonstrate academic independence, a publication record appropriate to their career stage, and the ability to work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment spanning history, literary studies, linguistics, and digital humanities.

Our Offer

- A position in an innovative and internationally active environment crucial to succes

- Numerous voluntary social benefits

- Flex time arrangement

- Opportunity to work independently and develop personally

The minimum annual gross salary for this position is EUR 70.167,44 (full-time based), in accordance with the collective agreement of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). For part-time employment, the salary will be adjusted on a pro rata basis in line with the agreed working hours.

Contact

Elisabeth Suwandschieff | [email protected]
IHB | 1010 Vienna, Austria
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | Austrian Academy of Sciences | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/