Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities

The University of South Carolina's English Department offers a three-year postdoctoral fellowship focusing on a digital edition of the works of Edmund Spenser.  

The Fellow will work with faculty and students in the English Department at the University of South Carolina, as well as with faculty and project staff at the other participating institutions.  The Fellow will concentrate on the construction of the Spenser Archive's digital infrastructure, and in the process will learn about all aspects of a large-scale literary digital edition, including the editorial methodology underlying both the digital edition and its print component (to be published by Oxford University Press), the standards governing the creation of digital transcriptions and facsimiles, and the technology required to make the archive run.  Additionally, the Fellow will have opportunities to teach courses about the Archive in the graduate program, and will help design curriculum to support digital work in the Department.

Applications must be submitted online at http://hr.sc.edu/employ.html.
For more information about the Spenser Project, contact David Lee Miller, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, or visit the project web site at http://spenser.cas.sc.edu.

Applications will continue to be accepted until the position has been filled.

The University of South Carolina is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

The University of South Carolina does not discriminate in educational or employment opportunities or decisions for qualified persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation or veteran status.

Qualifications:

General requirements:

Doctorate in appropriate field with strong background in the humanities.
Experience with server administration and some combination of the following: 

• scripting language and web application programming framework;
• relational database design and manipulation using an established database server environment;
• content management systems such as Fedora or Cocoon;
• XML and associated technologies.

Specifics:

Server Administration Skills:

• Proficiency in Unix shell scripting or the equivalent;
• Ability to manage user/group permissions on files/directories

Programming/Web Development Skills:

• Proficiency in writing Web sites using PHP and a database back-end such as MySQL;
• Proficiency in XML, XHTML, and CSS
• Familiarity with Unicode
• Familiarity with content management systems

Database Skills

• Proficiency in writing SQL queries/statements to perform common tasks (e.g., creating databases and tables; adding, updating, & deleting records, etc.)

Preferred: 

Doctorate in a humanities field and experience working with Digital Humanities Projects.

It will be a further advantage to applicants to be able to offer some of the following skills:

Server Administration Skills:

• Proficiency in compiling/installing programs and Apache modules on a server
• Familiarity with OS X

Programming/Web Development Skills:

• Experience writing object-oriented code (preferably in PHP)
• Understanding of good Web site security practices
• Familiarity with programming frameworks (CakePHP or similar PHP framework)
• Proficiency in TEI
• Proficiency in XSL
• Proficiency in JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX
• Good user interface design skills
• MySQL (preferred)
• Experience using MySQL
• Proficiency in designing databases using entity-relationship diagrams
• Proficiency in using phpMyAdmin

Salary:  $42,000 with benefits.