Predoc Researcher in Greek Linguistics

il y a 2 semaines

Gent, Belgique Universiteit Gent Temps plein

**Department: Department of Linguistics LW06 Taalkunde Employment rate:20%**
- **Number of positions: 1**:

- **Employment type: PreDoc Research Assistant**:

- **Job Duration: 1 year**

**_ABOUT GHENT UNIVERSITY_**

Ghent University (Belgium) is a world of its own. Employing more than 8,000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities. With its 11 faculties and more than 80 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.

Ghent is an attractive medieval town, with a strong economic base and lively cultural scene. Just 30 minutes by train from Brussels, two hours from Paris and Amsterdam and two and a half hours from London, it is ideally situated at the heart of European intellectual life.

**_YOUR TASKS_**

The ERC project MELA is hiring a PreDoc researcher (20%). You will assist MELA's team with bibliographical and linguistic research. Your job mainly implies translating primary sources into English, feeding MELA's database, and looking for bibliography.

**Area of research of MELA**

MELA primarily aims to create the first digital grammar of the Greek taught at schools in late Byzantium on the basis of textbooks for the teaching of Greek and their manuscript copies composed by (or within the networks of pupils, scribes, etc. of) scholars ranging from Planoudes (†1305) to Gregoras (†c. 1360). Overall, textbooks considered by MELA may be divided into the following categories: (1) works defined by author and genre (e.g. Planoudes’ Dialogue on Grammar); (2) lemmata on grammar that flowed into dictionaries (e.g. Moschopoulos’ Collection of Attic Words), provided with stylistic examples from model authors; 2a Comments on model authors; (3) scholars’ notes on grammatical topics; 3a anonymous treatises, sketches, reworked excerpts of larger works.

**_WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR_**

1. an MA degree in disciplines relevant to MELA: Greek philology/ Greek linguistics/ digital humanities;

2. outstanding knowledge of Ancient and/or Medieval Greek;

3. a demonstrable interest in Byzantine studies and training in the digital humanities;

5. excellent command of English and of at least one of the following languages: Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, or Russian.

**We expect** that the successful applicant will**:
Work one day a week (or the equivalent);

Translate source texts;

Feed MELA's database;

Look for bibliography.

**_WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU_**

**1.** a part-time contract (20%) for one year, that can be extended upon agreement.

Your remuneration will be determined by salary scale WM1 (year 0). Click here for more information about our salary scales;

**2.** an internationally competitive salary that corresponds to the salary scales for predoc researchers as established by the Flemish government;

**3. **a substantial allowance for travel and other research purposes in addition to the salary;

**5. **the possibility to acquire transferable skills as part of a Doctoral School programme.

**7.** All Ghent University staff members enjoy a number of benefits, such as a wide range of training and education opportunities, 36 days of holiday leave (on an annual basis for a full-time job) supplemented by annual fixed bridge days, a bicycle allowance and eco vouchers. Click here for a complete overview of all the staff benefits (in Dutch)

**_INTERESTED?_**
- In the field **‘CV’**: your CV and an overview of your study results (merged into one pdf file)
- your **MA dissertation** (and possibly other relevant writing samples such as papers or a BA dissertation).

Note that the maximum file size for each field is 10 MB.

**_MORE INFORMATION_**

Interviews will take place between the end of May and the beginning of June 2022.

For more information about this vacancy, please contact Prof. Andrea Cuomo at:
Universiteit Gent

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Department of Linguistics

Blandijnberg 2 9000 Gent
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