Postdoc, Modern Greek Studies — TEI & Digital Corpus

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Wien; Vor Ort; EUR 63.000 - 77.000; Teilzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Flex time arrangement

Social benefits

Independent work

Personal development

Zusammenfassung

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) invites applications for a 75% postdoctoral position in Modern Greek Studies at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. The project investigates Frangochiotika documents, builds a digital corpus, and fosters collaboration across history, linguistics, and digital humanities.

The successful candidate will conduct philological analysis, apply text-analysis methods to the corpus, and contribute to publications on vernacular Modern Greek.

Qualifikationen

• PhD in Modern Greek Studies or closely related field.
• Demonstrated research expertise in Modern Greek literature and textual production of the early modern period and preceding centuries.
• Excellent to native-level command of Modern Greek (C1–C2) including historical varieties.
• Strong philological skills with manuscripts and printed sources.
• Fluent English.

Aufgaben

• Contribute to building the project's digital corpus and edition: quality control of digitization and TEI P5 transcription guidelines; co-supervising two student assistants.
• Conduct in-depth historical and philological analysis of the Frangochiotika sources with the PI.
• Lead micro-level analysis of vernacular piety, material culture, and community life; apply computational text-analysis to the corpus.
• Co-organize project workshops and conferences.
• Produce a major study on phonology and morphology of Modern Greek vernacular and two co-authored peer-reviewed articles.

Kenntnisse

Modern Greek philology

English fluency

Historical manuscripts

Ausbildung

PhD in Modern Greek Studies

Tools

TEI/XML

Digital editing

Corpus development

Metadata

Jobbeschreibung

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) invites applications for a 75% postdoctoral position in Modern Greek Studies at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies. The project investigates Frangochiotika documents, builds a digital corpus, and fosters collaboration across history, linguistics, and digital humanities.

The successful candidate will conduct philological analysis, apply text-analysis methods to the corpus, and contribute to publications on vernacular Modern Greek.