Applications are invited for several research assistantships in the newly-established Electronic Textual Cultures Lab based in the University of Victoria's Department of English, and allied with the Humanities Computing and Media Centre, in areas related to literary studies, the digital humanities, and humanities computing.
The assistantships will be in [1] digitisation, [2] document encoding and transformation, [3] website development, and [4] programming.
An understanding and appreciation of the field of literary studies is essential for these positions, as is proficiency with computers and an awareness of the application of computing techniques to humanities disciplines. If necessary, specific training in digitisation, encoding, and analysis as they relate to the expectations of the position is available to incumbents during the Digital Humanities / Humanities Computing Summer Institute (June 2005; see http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/).
For these positions, the contract of employment will be for twelve hours per week, for twelve months (renewable), at standard local rates ($17.49/hour in 2004); in addition, all assistants are eligible to apply for a Graduate Tuition Fellowship of $4,400 for the year (2004 value).
For more information about these positions, please contact the project supervisor:
Ray Siemens
English, University of Victoria
PO Box 3070 STN CSC
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1
siemens@uvic.ca
Graduate students at the University of Victoria are encouraged to apply directly to the project supervisor. A CV including details of relevant experience and the names of two people who have agreed to act as referees on your behalf should be submitted to the supervisor.
Those applying to graduate studies at the University of Victoria who would like to be considered for this position should apply directly for admission into to the department to which they wish to be admitted, as well as to the project supervisor. Details of the application process for graduate studies are available at http://web.uvic.ca/gradstudies/.
R.G. Siemens
Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing,
English,
University of Victoria,
PO Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC, Canada. V8W 3W1
Phone: (250) 721-7272
Fax: (250) 721-6498
siemens@uvic.ca
http://web.uvic.ca/~siemens/
