Three Post-doctoral Fellowships - Intertextuality and Text reuse in the Middle East
- Employer
- Global Academy Jobs
- Location
- Pakistan
- Closing date
- Oct 12, 2018
View more
- Sector
- Art and Humanities
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
Job Details
In order to cover the 5 strands of the KITAB project (based on geographical areas):
- One fellow will be selected to work on Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula from the 8th century onward. S/he will work in collaboration with the two other post-doctoral research fellows as well as the PI and the Research Associate to complete the 5 strands of the project (Egypt, Iraq, the Islamic West, Syria and Bilad al-Sham, and the Islamic East).
- One fellow will be selected to work on Egypt from the 8th century onward. S/he will work in collaboration with the two other post-doctoral research fellows as well as the PI and the Research Associate to complete the 5 strands of the project (Iraq, the Islamic West, Egypt, Syria and Bilad al-Sham, and the Islamic East). Former research on the Mamluk period will be an asset.
- One fellow will be selected to work on the Islamic West, to include Islamic Spain and the Maghreb, from the 8th century onward. S/he will work in collaboration with the two other post-doctoral research fellows as well as the PI and the Research Associate to complete the 5 strands of the project (the Islamic West, Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Bilad al-Sham, and the Islamic East).
Successful candidates will be offered a two-year full-time fixed-term position to start on the 1st of March 2019.
Incumbents will receive a gross annual salary of £33,000 and an annual research budget of £500. Please note that accommodation in London will need to be independently organised by the Fellow. Other benefits include: shared office space in the Aga Khan Centre, access to computer facilities, and access to the Aga Khan Library and the libraries of neighbouring academic institutions.
Responsibilities
The work that the research project undertakes is innovative, interdisciplinary, and comparative. Fellows will work closely with Computer Scientists and are expected to be open to Digital Humanities approaches and actively participate in developing both the project's corpus and its methods. They will consider intertextuality and the reuse of texts between regions and across time or genres. Specifically, the fellows will:
- Undertake research on a project of their design that addresses the core intellectual questions of the project focused on Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt or the Islamic West from the 8th century onwards.
- Contribute to the development of KITAB's corpus (see http://iti-corpus.github.io/). Nota Bene: Each fellow will be trained to use this corpus and also responsible for annotating 150 works within it pertaining to his/her research.
- Take the lead on the annotation and analysis of the KITAB's corpus in their field/strand (Iraq and the Arabic Peninsula, Egypt, or the Islamic West).
- Provide feedback on data generated by the technical team they will work closely with.
- Publish articles and a monograph using KITAB's corpus and text reuse data.
The core intellectual questions of the research project pertain to:
- Authorial practices: the meaning of authorship, the cultural meanings associated with different forms of transmission, and ideas about originality.
- Changing forms of the book: ideas of the Arabic book, including the ways in which textual fragments in books took on lives of their own within anthologies, encyclopaedias, multi-text compilations (majmūʿāt), commentaries, abridgements (mukhtaṣar) and extensions of books.
- Narrative adaptations: how frequently copied texts and parts of texts were adapted over time. For example, the people, places, and events of the past that have a capacity for metamorphosis and recycling of meaning.
Requirements
We expect the three fellows to be based in, or willing to move to, London and to work at the Aga Khan Centre with the PI and the Research Associate.
The candidates will have completed their PhD in a field such as Middle Eastern History, Arabic Literature or Arabic Studies by December 2018. Their dissertations should show interest in, e.g., intertextuality, text reuse or history of the Arabic book. The candidates must demonstrate fluency in reading and understanding classical Arabic. Interests shown in Digital Humanities and Open Data will be much appreciated. Ability and desire to work collaboratively is essential to the position.
Company
Global Academy Jobs works with over 250 universities worldwide to promote academic mobility and international research collaboration. Global problems need international solutions. Our jobs board and emails reach the academics and researchers who can help.
"The globalisation of higher education continues apace, driving in turn the ongoing development of the global knowledge economy, striving for solutions to the world’s problems and educating a next generation of leaders and contributors."
Get job alerts
Create a job alert and receive personalized job recommendations straight to your inbox.
Create alert