Borse per laurea magistrale / di dottorato su progetto Visionary Cross (e/o Canterbury Tales o anche altro) a Lethbridge (CA).

The Visionary Cross and the Humanities Innovation Lab at the University
of Lethbridge seek curious and enthusiastic graduate students for funded
research positions at the MA and Ph.D. levels.
If you are interested in Early Medieval England, 3-D Visualization,
Humanities Data or the Digital Humanities, we are interested in hearing
from you. We can also consider other proposals related to our work.
The Visionary Cross is a case study in the future and implications of
digital editions. The Project uses and critiques newly developed digital
technologies in the study of a collection of important monuments and
texts of early medieval England: the eighth-century Ruthwell and
Bewcastle Stone Crosses from the kingdom of Northumbria, the
eleventh-century Brussels Reliquary Cross and the late tenth-/early
eleventh-century Vercelli Book poems “The Dream of the Rood”  and
“Elene from the south.” The project explores the ways in which these
objects are connected to each other and the ways in which they might be
best represented digitally.
The Humanities Innovation Lab [1] also hosts the Canterbury Tales
Project [2], Humanities Data Inquiry, and the Lethbridge Journal
Incubator.  We have been very successful in recent funding rounds
internally and externally and are developing a cohort of students at the
MA and PhD level interested in Digital Humanities, Medieval English
Literature, Textual Scholarship and Criticism, and Research
Communication/Open Science/Open Data.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We seek students interested in Early Medieval England, Old English,
manuscript studies, digital research methods, digital humanities and
Open Science. You are a curious and enthusiastic research student who
will take an active role in the project while carrying out your
individual line of research. You want to work as part of a team and
contribute to the lab’s research environment. You believe in open
science and open data published under FAIR principles.
Your interests might include:

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Early Medieval England
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3-D Representation
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Object-Oriented Editions
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Old English Literature
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Manuscript Culture
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Textual Scholarship
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Open Data
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Digital Humanities…

…but we are open to considering other proposals. If you have an
innovative critical approach, we want to hear from you.

WHAT WE OFFER:

We are offering funding for a Ph.D. or M.A. within a lively and diverse
working environment. You will learn from peers and project leaders in
the framework of the Humanities Innovation Lab, where you can learn
about all aspects of the project and its management while sharing in the
lab’s collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment. Our
project works closely with several other well-funded Digital Humanities
and Open Science projects at the University including work on Indigenous
languages, Scholarly Communication, and Open Data. The University has a
number of innovative cross-disciplinary programmes, including Cultural,
Social, and Political Thought (which takes an interdisciplinary approach
to problems in the Humanities and Social Sciences) and a new Data
Sciences programme, which is developing an approach that will span the
Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
Lethbridge is a medium-sized city with a mild climate for the Canadian
Prairies. It is located on the lands of the Blackfoot confederacy.
Please contact professor Daniel O’Donnell (daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca),
for an informal conversation. The deadline for a September start is
February 2nd.