15cBOOKTRADE: Research Positions Vacancies
The 15cBOOKTRADE is a five-year, ERC-funded research project which started on 1 April 2014, led by Dr Cristina Dondi at the University of Oxford. The project is now seeking to appoint three postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and one DPhil student based in Oxford.
15cBOOKTRADE: Postdoctoral Researcher – University of Oxford
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and The Bodleian Library – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’
The appointment will be on salary scale Grade 7. The salary range will be £29,837-£36,661 per annum.
This post has been created as part of the ERC-funded, international project 15cBOOKTRADE (http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/), directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. This is a full time post for four years and the post-holder will be based in the Bodleian Library. The project team will consist of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student.
The post-holder will be in charge of liaising with libraries worldwide for inclusion of their incunabula descriptions into MEI, liaising with the Data Conversion Group (DCG) of the University of Göttingen, Germany, for the ingestion of data, as well as enhancing the records to comply with the database categories. The researcher will also work on the new TEXT-INC database, towards the preparation of the corpus of all texts printed in the 15th century. He/she will also contribute original research toward the preparation of an in-depth monograph co-authored by the PI and the other project researchers.
Applicants must have completed Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent organisational skills and experience in the analysis of the contents of books from the Classical to the Renaissance period are the most important aspects of this research position, as well as fluency in written and spoken English, another European language, and good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical languages will be an advantage, as well as familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.
Vacancy ID: 113236
Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk, where they can also access the further particulars.
Closing Date: 5 June 2014
Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.
Interview Date: 23-24 June 2014
15cBOOKTRADE: Postdoctoral Researcher – The British Library, London
University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’
The appointment will be on salary scale Grade 7. The salary range will be £29,837-£36,661 per annum.
This post has been created as part of the ERC-funded, international project 15cBOOKTRADE (http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/), directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. This is a full time post for four years and the post-holder will be based in the British Library. The project team will consist of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student.
Responsibilities include entering provenance records of incunabula into the MEI database, as well as enhancing the ISTC database. The researcher will also contribute original research toward the preparation of an in-depth monograph co-authored by the PI and the other project researchers.
Applicants must have completed Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent palaeographical skills and experience in the analysis of the contents of books from the Classical to the Renaissance period are essential, as well as fluency in written and spoken English, another European language, and good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical languages will be an advantage, as well as familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.
Vacancy ID: 113237
Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk, where they can also access the further particulars.
Closing Date: 5 June 2014
Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.
Interview Date: 23-24 June 2014
15cBOOKTRADE: Postdoctoral Researcher – Venice, Italy
University of Oxford, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’
The appointment will be on salary scale Grade 7. The salary range will be £29,837-£35,597 per annum.
This post has been created as part of the ERC-funded, international project 15cBOOKTRADE (http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/), directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. This is a full time post for three years and the post-holder will be based in Venice, Italy. The project team will consist of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student.
Responsibilities include cataloguing into the MEI database, book in hand, in Italian, of the material features (former owners, binding, decoration, manuscript notes, etc.) of incunabula held in Venetian libraries, and the description into TEXT-INC database of the textual content of around 509 editions in Venetian libraries which cannot be found in neither Oxford, Cambridge, nor the British Library, London. The researcher will also contribute original research toward the preparation of an in-depth monograph co-authored by the PI and the other project researchers.
Applicants must have completed Humanities Doctoral degree or demonstrable equivalent experience. Excellent palaeographical skills and experience in the analysis of the contents of books from the Classical to the Renaissance period are essential, as well as fluency in written and spoken Italian and English and good knowledge of Latin. Knowledge of other classical languages will be an advantage, as well as familiarity with IT and the digital humanities. Effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills are also essential.
Vacancy ID: 113235
Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk, where they can also access the further particulars.
Closing Date: 5 June 2014
Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.
Interview Date: 23-24 June 2014
15cBOOKTRADE: Doctoral Researcher (DPhil) – University of Oxford
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and Lincoln College – ‘The 15th-century Book Trade: An Evidence-based Assessment and Visualization of the Distribution, Sale, and Reception of Books in the Renaissance’
The appointment will be on salary scale Grade 2. The salary range will be £15,456-£16,705 per annum. The successful candidate will enrol for a DPhil programme under the supervision of Dr Dondi, within the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, and will be associated with Lincoln College.
This post has been created as part of the ERC-funded, international project 15cBOOKTRADE (http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/), directed by Dr Cristina Dondi. The project team will consist of the PI, the project administrator, 3 postdoctoral researchers (based in Oxford, the British Library, and Venice), and 1 Oxford doctoral student.
The Department of Engineering Science at Oxford devised image-matching software which has been recently tested to detect the re-use and copying of 17th-century English Ballads held in the Bodleian Library. The DPhil candidate will explore, in collaboration with the Engineering Science Department, the application of that software to 15th-century Venetian illustration. The student will work on Venetian illustration to produce independent research work supervised by Dr Dondi, but at the same time to test an application which, if successful as hoped, could be easily extended to all illustration produced in Europe in the 15th century.
The student’s DPhil thesis will consist of a ground-breaking analysis of the production and circulation of an aspect of Venetian illustration. In agreement with the PI, the DPhil candidate will investigate either 1) the transmission in print of an illustrated text, or 2) the working practice, as far as illustration is concerned, of a Venetian printer, or 3) the iconographic tradition, in print, of a certain text.
Applicants must have completed a Master’s degree in Modern Languages, History or Classics. Fluency in English, another European language, and good knowledge of Latin are essential, as well as effective organisational and written and verbal communication skills. Some training in palaeography and codicology, early continental bibliography, illustration or history of art, and IT and the digital humanities are desirable.
Vacancy ID: XXXXXXX [will appear shortly!]
Applicants should apply online via www.recruit.ox.ac.uk, where they can also access the further particulars.
Closing Date: 5 June 2014
Latest time for the submission of applications: midday.
Interview Date: 23-24 June 2014
Dr Cristina Dondi
Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/dondi
http://www.cerl.org/web/
http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/
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