Jobs for Medievalists

Département d’histoire Faculté des arts et des sciences
Professeure ou professeur d’histoire du Moyen Âge

Le Département d’histoire sollicite des candidatures pour un poste à temps plein de professeure ou de professeur d’histoire du Moyen Âge au rang d’adjoint.

Fonctions
Les candidats seront appelés à enseigner aux trois cycles, à encadrer des étudiants aux études supérieures, à poursuivre des activités de recherche, de publication et de rayonnement ainsi qu’à contribuer aux activités de l’institution.

Exigences
• Doctorat en histoire du Moyen Âge.
• Excellente connaissance du latin médiéval.
• Aptitudes démontrées en enseignement et expérience en enseignement universitaire souhaitées.
• Aptitudes de recherche et dossier de publications qui se démarque.
• Le champ de spécialisation est ouvert, mais situé avant 1300. Une attention portée aux contacts et échanges entre le monde européen et d’autres aires géographiques constitue un atout.
• On s’attend à ce que le candidat sache intégrer son enseignement de l’histoire médiévale dans un programme départemental aux intérêts géopolitiques et thématiques diversifiés, et ouvert aux humanités numériques.
• Maîtrise de la langue française.*

Traitement
L’Université de Montréal offre un salaire concurrentiel jumelé à une gamme complète d’avantages sociaux.

Entrée en fonction
Le ou après le 1er juin 2014.

Clôture du concours
Le dossier de candidature, constitué d’une lettre de motivation, d’un curriculum vitæ, d’un exemplaire de publications ou de travaux de recherche récents, doit parvenir à l’adresse ci-dessous au plus tard le 15 novembre 2013.

Les candidats doivent également demander à trois personnes de faire parvenir une lettre de recommandation au directeur du département à l’adresse suivante :

Michael J. Carley, directeur
Département d’histoire
Université de Montréal
C. P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3J7
CANADA

Les personnes intéressées trouveront des renseignements sur le Département d’histoire en consultant le site Web à l’adresse suivante : www.histoire.umontreal.ca.

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Walters Art Museum Completes Parchment to Pixel Project

The Walters Art Museum’s Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books is proud to announce the completion of its second digitization project, “Parchment to Pixel.”  Over the course of the last two and a half years, the museum has digitized 107 manuscripts dating between the 8th to 20th centuries of English, German, Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Greek, Byzantine, Dutch, and Spanish origins.

These manuscripts are fully catalogued using the TEI standard and are available for digital download in their entireties on thedigitalwalters.org, free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.  Additionally, a selection of folios from each manuscript is available for viewing on art.thewalters.org/browse/category/manuscript-and-rare-books/ as well as at www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/sets/.

This project would not have been possible without support and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Jobs for Medievalists

The Department of Classics at The University of Iowa invites applications for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level in Late Latin Studies (2nd Century CE through 9th Century CE) with a demonstrated interest in digital Humanities, to begin in August 2014. For more information, please see https://jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view/63236.

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Jobs for Medievalists

Tenure-track position in English, with expertise in Medieval Literature, at the rank of assistant professor.  Effective August, 2014. Ph.D. required. The successful candidate will offer courses in Medieval Literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and literature courses at the introductory level. An ability to teach courses in Renaissance literature or Victorian literature would be an asset. He or she will also help to staff expository writing courses and General Studies 145-46 (Encounters), Whitman Colleges required first-year course. The standard annual teaching load is five courses. The College provides a generous sabbatical leave program and professional development support for both research and teaching. All applications must include the following materials: letter of application as well as separate statements addressing the candidates teaching interests and scholarly/performance agenda; curriculum vitae; three letters of reference; graduate transcripts; and teaching evaluations or other evidence of demonstrated or potential excellence in undergraduate instruction. The application should address the candidates interest in working at a liberal arts college with undergraduates, majors as well as non-majors, at all levels of instruction. In addition, because Whitman College is committed to cultivating a diverse learning community, the applicant should explain how his or her pedagogy will serve to create and sustain an inclusive learning environment.

To apply, go to https://whitmanhr.simplehire.com/, click Faculty and Assistant Professor of English (Medieval Literature).  Deadline: October 7, 2013. No applicant shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, gender, religion, age, marital status, national origin, disability, veterans status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. For additional information about Whitman College and the Walla Walla area, see www.whitman.edu and www.wallawalla.org.

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Call for Papers – The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

28-31 August 2014, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Keynote Address: Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford

Deadline for proposals: 31 January 2014

Convener:  Professor David Scott-Macnab

The 22nd Biennial Conference of the Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will be held at Mont Fleur, Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 28-31 August 2014. The conference theme is ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’. In an effort to facilitate a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conversation, we encourage scholars working in any discipline to submit abstracts addressing this theme.

For information about previous conferences and the conference venue, please go to the http://sasmars21stbiennialconference.blogspot.com/.

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Call for Papers – From eald to new: Translating early medieval poetry for the 21st Century

When
6 – 7 June 2014

Where
School of English, University College Cork, Ireland

Description

In recent years, the shelves of commercial bookshops have been graced with accessible translations of medieval poetry from the Old English, Old Irish and Old Norse traditions, including Heaney’s award-winning rendition of Beowulf. Many of these reworkings give a contemporary flavour and immediacy to medieval texts, and they are increasingly being adopted for introductory courses on medieval literature. But what place do literary translations have in the academy, and should they be taught as creative works in their own right? How are the latest translations adapting to the needs of students and teachers? What exactly do we lose, and gain, in the translation of medieval texts?

This conference will explore the ideology of translation, the subtleties of the translation process, and the teaching of translation in modern university settings in relation to memory, adaptation and remediation. It will examine the cultural and historical inflection of individual translations, the ways in which the student’s experience of medieval literature is affected by the translation adopted for study, and the particular challenges related to the translation and reception of early medieval vernacular poetry.

We invite abstracts for 20 minute papers from both individuals and panels. Abstracts of approx. 250 words should be emailed to Dr Tom Birkett or Dr Kirsty March at ealdtonew2014@ucc.ie. The closing date is 15 December 2013.

Topics may include:

  • Audience, cultural specificity and local idiom
  • The meeting place of literary and academic translations
  • Past translations, constraints of precedence, and suppression of difference
  • Ideas of ownership, authorship and canonicity
  • Teaching the translation of medieval languages in the academy
  • Problematic poetry: translating verse forms, metrics, poetic language
  • The potential of new media to change our relationship to the translated text
  • Translation theory applied to medieval texts

For more information please see fromealdtonew2014.wordpress.com

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Call for Nominations

The Early Slavic Studies Association is seeking nominations for its 2013 book prize. This year, the committee will consider monographs in areas OUTSIDE Early Slavic Studies that contribute significantly to our field by integrating its research and revealing important connections between pre-modern Slavic civilization and the area of their focus (e.g. non-Slavic medieval societies, archeology, art history, etc.). The monograph must be original research that has been published in English in the last three years.

Please pass this message on to other colleagues and send your nominations or self-nominations to Julia Verkholantsev (book prize committee chair) at juliaver@sas.upenn.edu. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2013.

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Jobs for Medievalists

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago invites applications for a faculty position in medieval Spanish literature at the beginning or advanced Assistant Professor level, with a preferred start date of July 1, 2014. We welcome applications from candidates working in additional languages, literatures and cultures of relevance to the Iberian Peninsula, such as Arabic, Byzantine Greek, Catalan, Hebrew, Portuguese or Occitan.

Candidates should be able to demonstrate serious scholarly promise, commitment to excellence in teaching, native or near-native Spanish and English, and a willingness to participate fully in a vibrant program with strong ties to neighboring disciplines in humanities, arts, and social sciences. PhD or defended dissertation by June 30, 2014, is highly preferred.

Applications must include a letter of interest/cover letter, CV, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation. If the writing sample is in Spanish, a second one in English would be welcome, although not required. All materials, except letters of recommendation, must be submitted online via the University of Chicago Academic Career Opportunities website at http://tinyurl.com/RLLmedieval2013 (requisition # 01811).

Recommendation letters must be submitted by your referees or a portfolio service (such as Interfolio) either through the Academic Careers website (strongly preferred) or by email to jhurtart@uchicago.edu.

For full consideration, all materials (including recommendation letters) must be received by October 15, 2013. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled; no materials will be accepted after December 15, 2013. The position is contingent upon final budgetary approval.

Inquiries may be addressed to Jennifer Hurtarte at jhurtart@uchicago.edu. For information on the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, please consult http://rll.uchicago.edu/.

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Jobs for Medievalists

Medieval Intellectual/Cultural History. College of Letters, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.  Rank: Assistant professor, to begin 1 July 2014. The College of Letters at Wesleyan University seeks a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, broadly defined, specializing in medieval Europe and working primarily in languages other than Italian and English. Familiarity with contemporary theory is desirable. The College of Letters is an interdisciplinary department in European literature, history and philosophy from the classical period to the present day. Team teaching of material from all three disciplines, over the period from antiquity to the present, is required. Broad literary and philosophical interests are essential. Candidates should have Ph.D. in hand by time of appointment. Submit letter of application, c.v., three letters of reference, a one-page thesis abstract, a chapter-length writing sample, sample syllabi, online at http://careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/4080

by November 15, 2013.

Wesleyan University supports scholarship and pedagogy through a generous sabbatical policy and a teaching load of two courses per semester.  The university is an equal-opportunity and affirmative-action employer. We welcome applications from women and from members of historically underrepresented minority groups. The university community is persuaded that individual and group differences contribute to the learning environment and to scholarship. Wesleyan University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or age. Any questions regarding Title IX and 504 should be directed to: Marina Melendez, 860-685-2765.

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Call for Papers – Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
June 16-18, 2014
Saint Louis University
Saint Louis, Missouri

This Year’s Plenary Speakers:
John W. Baldwin, Johns Hopkins University
Robert Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 17-19, 2013) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies.

The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a luxurious boutique hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are also available, although there is a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.

While attending the Symposium participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Book and Manuscripts Collection, and the general collection at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library.

The Second Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions.

The deadline for all submissions is December 31. Decisions will be made in January and the final program will be published in February.

For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: http://smrs.slu.edu   (or by email:  smrs@slu.edu)

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