Following major
funding awards from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities
Research
Council and the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Department
of English at
the University of Saskatchewan is inviting applications for
four-year PhD and
one/two year MA scholarships to work on the following research
projects:
·
The Canterbury Tales
Project
(http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/web/canterbury-tales)
·
The Textual Communities
Project (http://www.textualcommunities.usask.ca/)
· The Medieval Codes Project (http://medievalcodes.ca)
Applicants should
propose a MA or PhD topic related to some aspect of these
projects. Possible topics
include, but are not restricted to:
·
The manuscripts,
incunables, and textual tradition of
the Canterbury Tales
·
Analysis of large
manuscript traditions, including use
of mathematical/statistical/phylogenetic methods
·
Theory and
practice of scholarly editing in
the digital age
·
The effect of the
digital revolution on our
models of the humanities, archives and the community
·
Digital humanities and
scholarly editing/archival collections
·
Information structures and
features in medieval
documents
·
Medieval manuscript layout
and navigation
Successful candidates
will join one of the Canterbury Tales, Textual Communities, or
Medieval Codes
projects, commencing in September 2015.
Facility with Latin
or a modern European language and skills in computing will be
particularly
valuable, but not essential. We welcome applicants from anywhere
in the world.
With support from SSHRC and the university, we are able to offer
funding
towards research travel and training, with scholarship and other
support for subsistence
during study to qualified students. You will be joining a small
but vibrant international
cohort, currently including students from Italy, Nigeria,
Pakistan, and Mexico.
Please follow the
Department of English guidelines for application, which can be
found at http://artsandscience.usask.ca/english/graduate. In
your cover letter, please specify that you are applying for this
position and provide a
substantial description of your research interests as they
relate to the
projects named above.
For more information
about these research opportunities, please contact Peter
Robinson at peter.robinson@usask.ca, or Yin Liu at yin.liu@usask.ca. The deadline for
complete applications is January 15, 2015; late applications may
be considered
if funding is still available.
-- Yin Liu Department of English University of Saskatchewan 9 Campus Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A5 Canada +1-306-966-1835 yin.liu@usask.ca