The project The Riddle of Literary Quality (http://literaryquality.huygens.knaw.nl/) has a vacabcy for a PhD student. The PhD we are looking for will be working on the research into and the analysis of the low-level features that will be selected for analysis. He/she will combine knowledge of existing research into literary quality with new empirical approaches as developed in the area of digital/computational humanities. Some of the qualifications needed for applicants are a Master in Literary Studies or a closely related field, and affinity with (computational) linguistics and empirical research, knowledge of Dutch, English, and possibly also of Frisian, and affinity with information technology and willing to learn basic programming skills. The detailed description can be found at http://www.huygens.knaw.nl/wp-content/bestanden/2011/03/Vacancy-literary-quality-July2012.pdf
Karina van Dalen-Oskam Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands / University of Amsterdam
Prof. Dr Karina van Dalen-Oskam Research leader Department of Textual Scholarship and Literary Studies Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Computational Literary Studies University of Amsterdam
www.huygens.knaw.nl, www.huygens.knaw.nl/en/vandalen/ Tel: +31 – 70 – 3315875