Three post-doctoral researcher positions, Oxford (‘Crossreads’ ERC grant)

Overview Three post-doctoral researcher positions at the Oxford Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford, reporting to the Principal Investigator Professor Jonathan Prag. Two posts are for a 12-month duration and one post continues into the second year of a 5-year project for a duration of 24 months. Please indicate in your supporting letter which post(s) you would like to be considered for. Project “Crossreads: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean” is a 5-year ERC funded project. Developing and analysing a comprehensive corpus of all written (epigraphic) documents from the island, the project will offer the first coherent account of the interactions and interplay of linguistic and textual material culture in ancient Sicily over 1,500 years. The project builds upon the initial work of the I.Sicily project (sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk/inscriptions) and https://isicily.org/, and uses a variety of digital humanities tools and methods. The three posts advertised here are integral to the first work-package, which aims to complete the development of the comprehensive open-access corpus of epigraphic texts in TEI-EpiDoc, underpinning the rest of the project. Profile and Qualifications The successful candidate will have a doctorate, or be close to completion, in a related field. Specialist knowledge in epigraphic studies and working knowledge of at least one of ancient Greek, Latin, or Phoenician. Application Details Closing date for applications: 12.00 noon BST on Monday 3 August 2020. #J-18808-Ljbffr